長期臨床実習は非構成的評価で得られた評価結果の確かさを判断する作業療法学生の能力を改善するか?

Effectiveness of long-term clinical training on occupational therapy students' ability to judge the dependability of results from unstructured assessments

要旨：臨床実習が，作業療法学生の非構成的評価判断能力の向上に役立つかどうかを検討した．作業療法学生は，確かさの高い非構成的評価結果であれば，臨床実習を経験する前から良い評価結果であると判断できることが示唆された．一方で，作業療法学生は，確かさの低いものや読解が困難な非構成的評価結果に対しては，臨床実習を経験した後でも妥当な判断ができるようにならないことが示唆された．したがって，臨床実習は作業療法学生の非構成的評価判断能力の向上に必ずしも役立っているとはいえないことが示唆された．また，作業療法学生の非構成的評価判断能力を向上させる教育プログラムを開発する必要性があると考えられた．

　This study addressed whether long-term clinical training improved Occupational Therapy Students' (OTS) ability to judge the results from the Unstructured Assessment (UA). The following two results were observed: 1) OTS could judge the UA materials to be highly dependable even though they hadn't undergone long-term clinical training when they were given high dependability UA results and 2) OTS couldn't judge the UA materials appropriately even after they had undergone long-term clinical training when they were given UA results which were both low in dependability and were difficult to understand. This study concludes: 1) long-term clinical training is not always effective to improve abilities of the OTS to judge the results from the UA and 2) there is a necessity to develop educational programs which improve the ability of the OTS to judge results from UA.