Evaluation of a new clinical performance assessment tool: a reliability study

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dc.contributor.authorJoseph, Conran
dc.contributor.authorFrantz, Jose M.
dc.contributor.authorHendricks, Candice
dc.contributor.authorSmith, Mario
dc.date.accessioned2014-10-22T13:50:51Z
dc.date.available2014-10-22T13:50:51Z
dc.date.issued2012
dc.description.abstractClinical practice is an essential requirement of any graduate physiotherapy programme. For this purpose, valid and reliable assessment tools are paramount for the measurement of key competencies in the real-world setting. This study aims to determine the internal consistency and inter-rater reliability of a newly developed and validated clinical performance assessment form. A cross-sectional quantitative research design was used, which included paired evaluations of 32 (17 treatment and 15 assessment) student examinations performed by two independent clinical educators. Chronbachs alpha was computed to assess internal consistency and intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC’s) with confidence intervals of 95% were computed to determine the percentage agreement between paired examiners. The degree of internal consistency was substantial for all key performance areas of both examinations, except for time and organisational management (0.21) and professionalism (0.42) in the treatment and evaluation examinations respectively. The overall internal consistency was 0.89 and 0.73 for both treatment and assessment examinations, indicating substantial agreement. With regard to agreement between raters, the ICC’s for the overall marks were 0.90 and 0.97 for both treatment and assessment examinations. Clinical educators demonstrated a high level of reliability in the assessment of students’ competence using the newly developed clinical performance assessment form. These findings greatly underscore the reliability of results obtained through observation of student examinations, and add another tool to the basket of ensuring quality assurance in physiotherapy clinical practice assessment.en_US
dc.description.accreditationDepartment of HE and Training approved listen_US
dc.identifier.citationJoseph, C. et al. (2012). Evaluation of a new clinical performance assessment tool: a reliability study, South African Journal of Physiotherapy, 68(3): 15-19en_US
dc.identifier.issn0379-6175
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10566/1268
dc.identifier.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.4102/sajp.v68i3.19
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.privacy.showsubmitterFALSE
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dc.rightsThis is an open access journal which means that all content is freely available without charge to the user or his/her institution. Users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author. This is in accordance with the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI) definition of open access. Learn more about the journal copyright, licensing and publishing rights. The article can be found online at http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/sajp.v68i3.19
dc.status.ispeerreviewedTRUE
dc.subjectClinical perfomance assessment formen_US
dc.subjectInternal consistencyen_US
dc.subjectInter-rater reliabilityen_US
dc.titleEvaluation of a new clinical performance assessment tool: a reliability studyen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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