Deliver a VoiceThread Summary of an Assessment
This is the first assignment in this class, which I designed, that encourages students take a deeper dive into the psychometrics of clinical assessment. Later in the semester, the final assignment requires students to deliver a more extensive PowerPoint presentation about an assessment they have studied in detail. This assignment is designed to be preparatory for this later work and gives me a good sense of how students are able to articulate a relatively straightforward measurement idea (reliability) related to an assessment they are familiar with clinically. This is also an opportunity for students to demonstrate skills in public presentation, both designing slides and narrating content, within specific guidelines.
OT 8220 Measurement of Function and Learning
Deliver a VoiceThread Summary of an Assessment
Introduction
For this assignment, you will develop a brief summary of an existing assessment from one of the assessment databases you explored in week 1. You will describe this assessment to the rest of the class in a 4-5 minute VoiceThread presentation.
Directions
1) Choose an assessment that interests you or with which you have some experience. Use the database, PubMed, and other online sources to gather information about the assessment so that you can develop a brief presentation that covers the points described below.
2) For the assessment that you choose, create a brief PowerPoint presentation. In this presentation you should address the following issues:
- Describe the purpose of the assessment (i.e., what the assessment is designed to measure), mode of administration (i.e., self-report, clinician-observed, instrumented), and level of measurement (i.e., nominal, ordinal, interval).
- Describe the items, any important details about set-up, equipment needed, other administration issues, and the scoring.
- Discuss the theoretical framework or discipline that developed the assessment and which occupational therapy conceptual framework(s) that the tool might fit within.
- Discuss the client populations in which the assessment has been evaluated and discuss the reliability of the tool.
3) Using the VoiceThread link provided on this page, upload your PowerPoint presentation and add narration to each slide. Your narration should expand and highlight what is on the slide, not simply read the slide text.
4) Submit your PowerPoint slides using the "Submit Assignment 1" link above. This will alert me that your VoiceThread presentation is ready for me to view.
Goals of this assignment
- Locate, describe, and review a standardized assessment
- Prepare a clear, visually appealing PowerPoint
- Verbally deliver a succinct, on-point presentation.