A New Methodology for Assessing Social Work Practice: The Adaptation of the Objective Structured Clinical Evaluation (SW-OSCE)
Autor: | Charissa Chamorro, Joyce Yen Feng, Rowena Fong, Robert Hawkins, Yuhwa Eva Lu, Eileen Ain, Chiung Yun Chang, Betty Garcia, Muriel Yu |
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Rok vydání: | 2011 |
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Zdroj: | Social Work Education. 30:170-185 |
ISSN: | 1470-1227 0261-5479 |
Popis: | The Objective Structured Clinical Evaluation (OSCE) methodology was originally developed to assess medical students. OSCE is a carefully scripted, standardized, simulated interview, in which students’ interactional skills are observed and assessed. Here it is examined for its potential use in assessing social work practice skills. The development of the Social Work OSCE (SW-OSCE) and the Clinical Competence-based Behavioural Checklist (CCBC) are described. Findings from a pilot study assessing MSW students’ clinical skills with explicit observable criteria of the CCBC are presented. A quantitative and qualitative mixed-methods data analysis was applied. The CCBC had high internal reliability, for both the overall sample and for the different case scenarios, with Cronbach's alpha values ranging from 0.888 to 0.965. The validity of the instrument was also examined: qualitative content analysis of the taped interviews indicated that clinical skills and cultural empathy are not synonymous. The racial/ethnic m... |
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