Examining skills and abilities in psychology

Hakelind, CH (Camilla)

 

Submission type

Oral only

Scheduled

Bouillonzaal, 26-09-2019, 15:30 - 17:00

Keywords

Clinical skills, Assessment, OSCE, psychological literacy

Summary

Applying psychological knowledge is one of the most important parts of psychological literacy and an important part of a psychology degree. Examining students’ clinical skills in a valid manner requires high quality examination forms. The purpose of this presentation is to describe the implementation of new examination forms in order to improve the external validity of the assessment of clinical skills. The Department of Psychology introduced OSCE, Objective Structured Clinical Examination on the psychologist programs. In the OSCE different types of skills and abilities are addressed. Each student is faced with a number of clinical problems in a circuit of short stations with simulated patients. Every station is assessed by one teacher. The implementation of OSCE improved the alignment between national goals and teaching content, stimulated students’ training of practical skills, as well as strengthened students' performance at clinical practice. We aim to discuss how OSCE can be implemented in a wider perspective, and how the method can be improved and better adapted to the psychological context. Future development and research also include a psychometric evaluation of the OSCE in a psychological context, where content validity, intra- and inter-rater reliability as well as the procedures standard-setting will be examined.

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