- Title
- Development and validation of the Australian Midwifery Standards Assessment Tool (AMSAT) to the Australian midwife standards for practice 2018
- Creator
- Sweet, Linda; Fleet, Julie; Henderson, Amanda; Bull, Angela; Downer, Terri; Fox, Deborah; Bowman, Rebekah; Ebert, Lyn; Graham, Kristen; Bass, Janice; Muller, Amanda
- Relation
- Women and Birth Vol. 33, Issue 2, p. 135-144
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.wombi.2019.08.004
- Publisher
- Elsevier
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2020
- Description
- Background: The Australian Midwifery Standards Assessment Tool (AMSAT) was developed against the Competency Standards for the Midwife in 2017 to enable consistent assessment of midwifery student performance in practice-based settings. The AMSAT requires revision and re-validation as the competency standards have now been superseded by the Midwife Standards for Practice 2018. Objective: This research revised and validated the AMSAT to assess performance of midwifery students against the Midwife Standards for Practice 2018 and assessed its sensitivity. Design: A mixed-methods approach was used in a two-phase process. Phase one involved the re-wording of the AMSAT and behavioural cue statements in an iterative participatory process with midwifery academics, assessors and students. The tool was field-tested in different assessment environments in phase two. Completed assessment forms were statistically analyzed, whilst assessor surveys were analysed using descriptive statistics and qualitative content analysis. Findings: Analysis of AMSAT (n = 255) indicates the tool as: internally reliable (Cronbach alpha > .9); valid (eigenvalue of 16.6 explaining 67% of variance); and sensitive (score analysis indicating increased levels of proficiency with progressive student experience). Analysis of surveys (n = 108) found acceptance of the tool for the purpose of summative and formative assessment, and in the provision of feedback to midwifery students on their performance. Conclusion: This study demonstrates that the re-developed AMSAT is a valid, reliable and acceptable tool to assess midwifery students’ performance against the Australian Midwife Standards for Practice This user-friendly tool can be used to standardize midwifery student assessment in Australia and enable continued benchmarking across education programs.
- Subject
- clinical assessment; midwifery education; validation; competence; professional standards; practice-based learning
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1433026
- Identifier
- uon:39150
- Identifier
- ISSN:1871-5192
- Language
- eng
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