Validity Evidence for a Bovine Uterine Prolapse Reduction Model and Rubric for Use in Teaching and Low-Stakes Assessment of Veterinary Students

• DOI: 10.3138/jvme-2024-0139
• Publication Date: 2025-02-20T15:29:26Z
• Authors: Lynda M. J. Miller; Clare M. Scully; Victoria Morris; Hannah Bonnema; Natalie Trantham; Julie A. Hunt
• Keywords: Rubric; Content Validity

Bovine uterine prolapse is a common but emergent condition typically arising in the time surrounding calving. Without treatment, it can result tissue trauma, infection, hemorrhage, and death. Teaching veterinary students to perform reduction has historically been dependent upon adequate clinical caseload requiring procedure. This study sought develop collect validation evidence for silicone bovine model associated scoring rubric enable procedural practice without presentation of live animals utilized framework consisting content (expert opinion), internal structure (reliability scores produced by rubric), relationship with other variables (level training, novice-to-expert comparison). Veterinary ( n = 37, novices) veterinarians 11, experts) performed procedure on while being video recorded. All participants then completed survey about model. Veterinarians’ results indicated that adequately represented task was suitable teaching assessing students’ skill (content evidence). Scores had marginal Cronbach's alpha (.607), suggesting may be low-stakes assessment would require additional items or modification order improve reliability high-stakes (internal Finally, experts achieved higher total than novices did (relationship demonstrated model, indicating its usefulness this important skill.