scholarly journals Content Validation of Athletic Therapy Clinical Presentations in Canada

2016 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 82-87 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark R. Lafave ◽  
Michelle Yeo ◽  
Khatija Westbrook ◽  
Dennis Valdez ◽  
Breda Eubank ◽  
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Context: Competency-based education requires strong planning and a vehicle to deliver and track students' progress across their undergraduate programs. Clinical presentations (CPs) are proposed as 1 method to deliver a competency-based curriculum in a Canadian undergraduate athletic therapy program. Objective: Validation of 253 CPs. Setting: Canadian universities/colleges and clinical practices. Patients or Other Participants: Six Canadian Athletic Therapists Association-accredited program directors and 6 athletic therapists with at least 10 years of experience working in both field and clinical athletic therapy settings. Intervention(s): We surveyed 12 experts who rated the importance and difficulty of 253 CPs using a 100-mm and electronic visual analog scale with extremely important at 1 anchor and irrelevant at the other end. Difficulty was measured in a similar manner anchored by extremely difficulty and extremely easy. Main Outcome Measure(s): Descriptive statistics for importance and difficulty were tabulated on all CPs. An importance-difficulty index was calculated as a mean score of both importance and difficulty scores. Results: Data were converted into quartiles to represent a 4-point categorical importance scale to mimic the original categories from the Ebel procedure (ie, essential, important, acceptable, and questionable). Difficulty was likewise converted into quartiles representing a 4-point categorical difficulty scale. Mean importance scores ranged from 99.3 for airway management (ie, most important) to 54 for high altitude cerebral edema (ie, less important). Clinical presentation difficulty scales ranged from 89.8 for biceps contusion (ie, easier) to 21.2 for decompression illness (ie, harder). Conclusions: These 253 CPs are thought to be representative (ie, valid) of the athletic therapy scope of practice in Canada. To our knowledge, CPs have not been developed in the athletic therapy context prior to this research. We anticipate more will be identified as these CPs are used to align teaching, learning, and assessment within competency-based athletic therapy programs in Canada.

2022 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 132-146
Author(s):  
Michelle Yeo ◽  
Mark Lafave

In some fields, written reflection is commonplace whereas in others it is uncommon. While athletic therapy education aims to produce reflective practitioners, written reflection is not a typical pedagogy employed. In 2014, the athletic therapy program at our institution began the implementation of a clinical presentation (CP) approach to facilitate competency-based curriculum requirements. This innovation to pedagogy required a reimagined approach to teaching, learning, and assessment. We describe one aspect of a larger SoTL study on this transformation, inquiring into the development of reflective practice through reflective writing. Students were asked to regularly reflect on their experiences in the clinic or field as part of their program. In this qualitative component of the study, we were able to gain insight into how students perceived the reflective process, how that evolved over their program, what were enablers and barriers to their reflection, and what was the role of feedback in their learning. The characteristics of student perceptions in each year, which followed a learning arc which we describe sequentially as “confused, conflicted, and convinced,” is explored, along with implications for pedagogy in assisting students to develope reflective professional practice.


2018 ◽  
Vol 42 (4) ◽  
pp. 661-667 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fabíola da Silva Albuquerque ◽  
Temilce Simões de Assis ◽  
Francisco Antônio de Oliveira Júnior ◽  
Maria Regina de Freitas ◽  
Rita de Cássia da Silveira e Sá ◽  
...  

A group of teachers from Northeast Brazil developed a model of membrane potentials and action potential and tested the hypothesis that using the peer-instruction model would provide a better performance for students in reading traditional texts and lectures. The results were obtained from 357 students from 20 different courses in 9 different undergraduate programs. All students attended two 100-min theoretical lecture and, at the end of the second lecture, were asked to answer a multiple-choice question (a pretest). In the following lecture, students were divided into three groups: control, text, and model. At the end of the lecture, everyone responded to a posttest. Student performance in the pretest did not differ significantly between groups. In the comparison between the pretest and the posttest, students in the model and text groups significantly improved their performance, but there was no improvement in the control group. In the posttest, the model group presented a better performance than the control group. In the evaluation of the strategies used, 46% of the students indicated that the text would be very useful to remind them about the subject in the future, whereas 80% of those who used the model indicated that it would be very useful or extremely useful. useful. Although it was not possible to support the hypothesis conclusively, the performance model group, at least in part, was due to the use of active methodologies that constitute a differential in the teaching-learning process.


2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (16) ◽  
Author(s):  
Valeria Paola González Duéñez ◽  
Joel Mendoza Gómez

Abstract. Currently the aeronautical industry demand human resource that is highly competitive with excellent abilities, skills and job skills that allow the growth of this industry in Mexico. UANL offers the educational program in Aeronautical Engineering and because is a program designed under the new competency-based education model, it is necessary to measure the employability of students working under this new teaching-learning process, such as is achieved and even provide feedback to continually improve any area of opportunity in the transition of students during their training. This research presents a cause-effect model where independent variables are considered classified generic competencies: instrumentals, social interaction and integrative, and the dependent variable initial workforce readiness. Todefine the variables, objectives and hypotheses we did an analysis of competency-based international models. Variables were operationalized to design and determine the reliability of the measuring instrument performing the content validity with 12 experts on the competency model. To test the hypothesis of educational program were selected 103 students usingPhase I, II and III as field study. Phase I is an assessment of students, Phase II is an evaluation with teachers and Phase III is the opinion of employers. Finally, we present the results of analysis of the direct influence of generic skills: instrumentals, social interaction and integrative and professional-labor performance work called initial workforce readiness.Keywords: employability, generic competencies, initial workforce readinessResumen. Actualmente la industria Aeronáutica demanda recurso humano que sea altamente competitivo con excelentes capacidades, destrezas y aptitudes laborales que permitan el crecimiento de esta industria en México. En la UANL se oferta el programa educativo de Ingeniero en Aeronáutica y por ser un programa diseñado bajo el nuevo modelo educativo basado en competencias, es necesario medir la empleabilidad de los estudiantes  que trabajan bajo este nuevo proceso de enseñanza-aprendizaje, de tal forma de que se logre mejorar continuamente e inclusive retroalimentar cualquier área de oportunidad en el tránsito de estudiantes durante su formación. En esta investigación se plantea un modelo causa-efecto en el que se consideran como variables independientes las competencias genéricas clasificadas en: instrumentales, de interacción social e integradoras; y la variable dependiente la empleabilidad laboral inicial. Se realizó un análisis de los modelos internacionales basados en competencias, definiéndose las variables, los objetivos y las hipótesis. Se operacionalizaron las variables para diseñar y determinar la confiabilidad del instrumento de medición realizándose la validez de contenido con 12 expertos sobre el modelo por competencias. Para probar las hipótesis se seleccionaron 103 estudiantes del PE aplicando Fase I, II y III como estudio de campo. La Fase I es una evaluación de estudiantes, la Fase II es evaluación con profesores y la Fase III es la opinión de los empleadores. Finalmente se presentan los resultados del análisis sobre la influencia directa entre las competencias genéricas: instrumentales, de interacción social e integradoras y el desempeño profesional-laboral llamado empleabilidad laboral inicial.Palabras clave: competencias genéricas, empleabilidad, empleabilidad laboral inicial


Author(s):  
S. N. Gorlova ◽  
E. A. Makarova

Federal State Educational Standards of Higher Education have designated a reorientation from the subject-knowledge education model to the competency-based one, when the goal is to develop students' personal and professional features with an emphasis on their autonomous learning. Universality and generality of requirements for the results of studying the bachelor’s programme in Pedagogical Education does not exclude, but assumes the subject’s orientation of the competencies formulated when implementing specific areas of training. This requires rethinking the functionality of all components of the training system, including the contents. It is the very aspect that remains insufficiently revealed for competency-based teaching of mathematics. The vector of a significant part of studies is directed towards the search for effective educational technologies. Meanwhile, continuity in nurturing competencies requires considering professional orientation on teaching-learning the subject. Reviewing mathematical contents is also vital as the proportion of students’ autonomous learning is getting increased. The article substantiates the role and significance of mathematical contents in arranging control of students' autonomous learning. Keeping in mind the priority of control’s teaching function, it is proposed to make up tasks that contribute to assessing not only knowledge, but also experiential and motivational components of competences.


LEKSIKA ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 72
Author(s):  
Jati Suryanto

This paper will explore the implementation of the Competency-Based Curriculum at the Department of English Education, Universitas Muhammadiyah Yogyakarta,  in reaching the goal of creating autonomous learners. Autonomous Learner is the ultimate objective in teaching learning processes. It is the beginning of the long-life learning processes. By creating autonomous learners, the process of achieving better graduate quality will be more effective and efficient. To reach the goal of producing autonomous learners, the Department of English Education, Universitas Muhammadiyah Yogyakarta,  focuses its curriculum on the graduate abilities in “thinking how to think” and “learning how to learn” through the Competency Based Curriculum.Competency-Based Curriculum (CBC) is the teaching learning planning which bases its objectives on the students’ competences. To achieve the ultimate goal of language learning the Department of English Education, Universitas Muhammadiyah Yogyakarta needs to choose the relatively most effective curriculum and method of teaching for the students. Therefore, the department chooses CBC that applies student centred learning (SCL) to achieve the autonomous learning model. The department also applies constructivism approach which enhance the students curiosity to accelerate the autonomous learning in the student centred learning.   


2006 ◽  
Vol 14 (5) ◽  
pp. 755-761 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kênia Lara Silva ◽  
Roseni Rosângela de Sena

The study describes changes that are noted in students during training and which contribute to define a professional profile. We carried out a descriptive-exploratory study with a qualitative approach, based on dialectics as a theoretical-methodological framework. The data was obtained from documented analysis and through focal groups with teachers, students and service nurses. The results show the student's position as an active subject in the teaching-learning process, through a movement of transformation of academic structures. A correlation was found between the movement that seeks students' greater political, active and critical participation as a way of determining and guiding the profile of the generalist nurse and greater social insertion. We conclude that, despite efforts, training guidelines and the definition of the professional profile in the study settings is directed at the demands of the labor market, and that competency-based training is still incipient.


Author(s):  
ALVIN O. CAYOGYOG

Training must serve its purpose or else it will become a waste of time, effort and money. Despite the noble purpose of training, its poor design and evaluation programoftentimes wasted its investments. This study analyzes the usefulness of teachers’trainings via qualitative method of research. The results articulated the emerging categories of students’ personal and interpersonal learning experiences manifested in the cognitive, affective and psychomotor domains of learning. Several insights across these categories traced their roots to teachers’ traits and values such as the ability to explain the lesson well, motivate students, use good techniques/strategies, relate the lesson to real life situations, arouse critical thinking, patience, open-mindedness, friendliness, fairness, concerns, passion and commitment for teaching. Cases on competency-based instruction and advanced teaching-learning methods shared commontraces of benefits in teachers’ training. The case on pedagogy of love emerged to have a distinct character. This study establishes the benefits of the teacher training in student learning particularly in building their character and intellectual competence – calling for a continuous strengthening of faculty development initiatives.Keywords: Teacher training, Student learning, Pedagogy of Love, Cross Case Analysis, Universityof Mindanao, Davao City, Philippines


2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. 558-558
Author(s):  
Laura Donorfio ◽  
Karen Kopera-Frye ◽  
Robert Maiden ◽  
Carrie Andreoletti

Abstract Undergraduate programs (majors, minors, certificates) and continuing education programs in gerontology prepare students for entry-level careers in aging and increase competitiveness for graduate work in a variety of fields. Job growth in the field of gerontology is high, especially for positions requiring a bachelor’s degree and less. Gerontology education at this level is essential for meeting the growing demand for workers in social services and health services who understand the opportunities and challenges that come with increased longevity and global aging. This presentation will highlight the new recommendations for competency-based gerontology education for undergraduate and continuing education credentials outlined in the latest edition of AGHE Standards and Guidelines. Whether you are developing a new curriculum or revising an old one, we will offer suggestions for using the AGHE competencies and guidelines to ensure that your program adequately prepares students and offers them a competitive edge in today’s job market.


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