title: A new perspective in evaluating clinical effectiveness: the UWO Clinical Grading System.
abstract: To improve assessment of the performance of speech-language pathology students in clinical practicum, faculty and students in the Department of Communicative Disorders at the University of Western Ontario developed a new evaluation instrument, the UWO Clinical Grading System (UWO-CGS). This article reports on the development and field-testing of the UWO-CGS and includes estimates of the instrument's intrasupervisor and intersupervisor reliability. Results of content-related, construct-related, and criterion-related investigations are reported to support the inference that the UWO-CGS is a valid measure of the clinical effectiveness of student speech-language pathologists.
authors.affiliation: University of Western Ontario, London, Canada.
authors.forename: C J
authors.initials: CJ
authors.lastname: Johnson
authors.forename: C M
authors.initials: CM
authors.lastname: Shewan
mesh_terms: D002983:Clinical Competence; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D013066:Speech-Language Pathology / Q000193:education* / Q000592:standards