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HU Credits:
2
Degree/Cycle:
1st degree (Bachelor)
Responsible Department:
Occupational Therapy
Semester:
2nd Semester
Teaching Languages:
Hebrew
Campus:
Mt. Scopus
Course/Module Coordinator:
Dr. Yafit Gilboa
Coordinator Office Hours:
By appointment
Teaching Staff:
Dr. Yafit Gilboa
Course/Module description:
This course covers different perspectives of the process of assessment and intervention in occupational therapy through clinical thinking. This course will cover the characteristics of assessment tools and present psychometric concepts of them. The course will allow students to become familiar with the tools through using them.
Course/Module aims:
- Develop awareness of the importance of assessment and evaluation in the process of OT intervention
- Introduce a range of tools that investigate occupational profile, participation, and occupational performance in different occupations and populations
- develop critique skills of assessment tool
Learning outcomes - On successful completion of this module, students should be able to:
- Define the stages of assessment using a client centred, occupational based approach
- Compare different approaches including top-down and bottom-up
- Critique the characteristics of assessment tools according to their goals, population, rationales, theoretic basis, advantages, disadvantages, standardisation and psychometric properties
- analyse assessment tools according to the occupational profile, participation and occupational performance
- recommend the appropriate assessment tool for a case study
Attendance requirements(%):
80%
Teaching arrangement and method of instruction:
lectures, discussions, presentations
Course/Module Content:
- introduction to assessment, evaluation and measurement in occupational therapy
- introduction to psychometric properties of assessment tools
- meaning of results
- introduction to assessment tools that investigate occupational profile, participation and occupational performance
Required Reading:
Given separately
Additional Reading Material:
Given separately
Course/Module evaluation:
End of year written/oral examination 60 %
Presentation 40 %
Participation in Tutorials 0 %
Project work 0 %
Assignments 0 %
Reports 0 %
Research project 0 %
Quizzes 0 %
Other 0 %
Additional information:
- Assessment tools will be presented in groups of 3-4 students
- Each member of the groups is required to participate in the presentation of the tool
- Pass mark is 70%
- Students must achieve 60% or higher in the final exam in order to pass the course
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