Advanced Training of Trainers - Pathfinder International

UNIT 3/OBJECTIVE #5
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N Provide a basis for follow up
evaluations of trained clinicians.
The limitations of competency-based
assessments are that they:
N Require time and effort to develop;
N Must be used by clinical trainers who
are proficient in the clinical procedure
or activity to be learned;
N Require an adequate number of skilled
clinical trainers to conduct the training
because competency-based clinical
training usually requires a one-on-one
relationship.
Two types of rating systems that can
be used when designing competencybased
skill development and assessment
instruments are numerical or multilevel
and pass/fail.
N A numerical or multilevel rating scale
assigns numbers to specific levels of
performance. This allows trainers and
Px to easily measure their progress in
learning clinical skills or activities over
time, and such scales are typically used
with learning guides.
N A second type of rating scale is the
yes/no (e.g., pass/fail, satisfactory/
unsatisfactory) system, which often
is used with checklists. As the Px
performs each step of the procedure or
activity, the evaluator (clinical trainer)
“checks” whether or not the step has
been satisfactorily completed.
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between the learning guide and the
competency-based skills checklist.
N Explain that many organizations and
preservice institutions use learning
guides when first introducing new
skills. The learning guides are much
more detailed than the checklists and
have broken the skills down to finer
details. The learning guides are good
for learning, but may not be practical
for evaluation.
AdvAnced TrAining of TrAiners