Triple Jump Assessments

A response to the Share Your SoTL Research Plan Activity
created by Rachel Boorsma (@Rachel Boorsma)

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I think scholarship can be easily buried when teaching, as getting content together and presented to students can feel like a bit of a mad rush at times. It is really intriguing to me that there are ways to apply scholarship and research to the actual act of our own teaching, and it feels promising that we can be teachers and scholars simultaneously. I have been talking with my program coordinator about the assessment that we use in my course and how there are modifications that are required to this assignment, but we don’t know what the best way to adapt it is, so taking a scholarly approach may be best for us to really understand what is working and what is not. I would like to test whether triple jump assessments are effective in evaluating individual clinical reasoning, hypothesizing, and researching of a new client file. This will require a literature search on triple jump assessment, and conversations with individuals who have used this assessment in their courses. I would like to compare different cohorts of students who have completed different iterations of this assessment, as well as student perceptions of self-efficacy in completing this process independently. Ultimately, I would like to disseminate the information gathered to my program and other healthcare programs in my school and throughout other institutions.

I visualize this as being an ongoing process/conversation with multiple different stakeholders involved:

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