Development, Reliability, and Validity of the Occupational Therapy Self-Efficacy of Clinical Competence (OT–SECC) Assessment

The OT-SECC is a psychometrically sound assessment that may be used by occupational therapy programs to examine students' self-efficacy of clinical competence before attending fieldwork. Plain-Language Summary: There is an increasing responsibility for occupational therapy graduate education programs to prepare students for clinical practice. Although experiential learning activities are commonly used to teach these clinical skills, there are few valid and reliable tools to measure their effectiveness. To address this, the researchers developed the Occupational Therapy Self-Efficacy of Clinical Competence (OT-SECC) assessment. Findings show that the OT-SECC exhibits acceptable content validity, test-retest reliability, convergent validity, internal consistency, and construct validity. The assessment can be used by faculty to select instructional methods, refine experiential learning activities, assist with individual student advisement, and evaluate program effectiveness.