Abstract
Process recording is a commonly used tool in social work field practica. However, there is no empirically validated evaluation instrument available to guide practitioners, field instructors, or students in a systematic assessment of such reconstructed interviews. This study investigated the interrater reliability of a rating checklist for process-recorded interviews. Seven experienced field instructors rated single process recordings from 10 students who were unknown to them. Intraclass correlation coefficients revealed little absolute agreement among judges (.37), a modest degree of consistency in judgment (.50), and acceptable reliability for the checklist using ratings averaged across all judges (.88). These low levels of reliability documented difficulties with the subjective interpretation of student clinical skills as assessed by process recordings but suggest the utility of efforts to improve the checklist for use as an evaluative and research tool.
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