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    Grading individual observations of practice in child welfare contexts: a new assessment approach in social work education

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    Authors
    Domakin, Alison
    Issue Date
    2018-10-27
    Subjects
    social work education
    child welfare social work
    observations of practice
    grading practice
    
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    Abstract
    Students in the Frontline social work qualifying program undertake seven graded observations of practice in child welfare contexts during their qualifying studies. Before the Frontline program, educators had not attempted to implement graded observations of practice in a qualifying program in the United Kingdom. In this paper, we seek to show how graded practice observations have been undertaken in the Frontline program and provide information about the research base informing its development. A summary of findings from three preliminary research studies are presented. We suggest it is possible to grade practice consistently in child-welfare social work. However, we found considerable variation in marks awarded and evidence of grade inflation in all three studies. Using an interpretive lens, we argue that differences between graders should be anticipated because this is a complex assessment task requiring context-dependent judgment. We recommend developing a “consensus discussion” approach to moderation to improve reliability of grading practices, in which graders are encouraged to make the reasoning behind their grading decisions explicit.
    Citation
    Domakin A (2019) 'Grading individual observations of practice in child welfare contexts: a new assessment approach in social work education', Clinical Social Work Journal, 47 (1), pp.103-112.
    Publisher
    Springer New York LLC
    Journal
    Clinical Social Work Journal
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10547/624559
    DOI
    10.1007/s10615-018-0691-4
    Additional Links
    https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10615-018-0691-4
    Type
    Article
    Language
    en
    ISSN
    0091-1674
    ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
    10.1007/s10615-018-0691-4
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