A new methodology for assessing social work practice: The adaptation of the objective structured clinical evaluation (SW-OSCE)

Social Work Education

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 170-185

  Lu, Yuhwa Eva ^a   Ain, Eileen ^b   Chamorro, Charissa ^a   Chang, Chiung Yun ^a   Feng, Joyce Yen ^c   Fong, Rowena ^d   Garcia, Betty ^e   Hawkins, Robert Leibson ^a   Yu, Muriel ^f  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PRIVATE PRACTICE   (United States)

^c NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^e CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Assessment of social work students; Cultural empathy; Objective structured clinical evaluation; Outcomes of social work education

Indexed keywords

EID: 79551704632     PISSN: 02615479     EISSN: 14701227     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02615479.2011.540385     Document Type: Article

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