Evaluating Student Participation

Course overview

This course is the first of a two part series that describes how school-based occupational therapists can effectively evaluate student participation (occupational performance) across school contexts and identify what matters most for student success. Emphasis is on key features that can help to create a participation-based evaluation process that is educationally relevant and leads to collaborative and meaningful contextual interventions. Participants will learn essential questions to ask teachers, how to complete a contextual observation that generates data, and a process of creating a hypothesis that guides individualized selection of evaluation tools and methods in order to evaluate student strengths and challenges as they impact school participation.