The American Occupational Therapy Association has adopted the Fieldwork Evaluation for the Occupational Therapist for measuring clinical performance. The Fieldwork Evaluation was designed to measure the performance, judgment, and attitude of occupational therapy students on tasks related to the profession. This article discusses the history of this self-contained instrument and reports on its field test. The nationwide sample comprised 597 students Raters received no training. The data demonstrated that the Fieldwork Evaluation has strong reliability for discriminating students' clinical performance and that the tasks have internal consistency (homogeneity).
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