Field Manual for 2013-2014 - University of Maryland School of ...

UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND
FIELD EDUCATION
SCHOOL OF SOCIAL WORK SWCL 794-795
ADVANCED CLINICAL FIELD INSTRUCTION EVALUATION
Student:
Date:
Field Instructor:
Date:
Agency:
Semester:
This evaluation is an education tool for the use of the field Instructor, student, and the school. As
an educational device, the evaluation and the process comprising it should:
1. Reflect the professional judgment of the field instructor in the assessment of specific
practice behaviors, and in reaching an overall conclusion about the student’s performance.
2. Provide for the student a differentiated description of his or her practice indicating relative
strengths and weaknesses. The differentiated description gives indication to the student
and field instructor of future training needs and of special expertise.
This evaluation consists of three sections:
The first should be a brief statement of the student’s field assignments, as a way of establishing a
context for the judgments.
Next, the student’s performance is evaluated in each of the curriculum areas. At the end of the
first of the two advanced practice field education semesters, the student should demonstrate
expected behaviors in all areas (where there has been opportunity to do so). If there is any area
of non-demonstration of expected behavior, the student should be considered as having failing
field.
Areas where there is a lack of consistency in engaging in expected behaviors constituting
special learning problem areas should be noted, and a teaching-learning plan and contract should
be developed by the field instructor and student. Such areas of inconsistency in expected
behaviors should be carefully assessed with regard to overall performance indicators to determine
whether there is a evidence of potential for improvement of not.
Finally, there is an integrative summary section. This is an opportunity to pull together, in an
individual way, your impressions of the student’s field work performance to date.
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