How Occupation Is Taught and Assessed in Occupational Therapy Education: A Scoping Review

Educators need to deepen their knowledge about occupation and intentionally use authentic instructional approaches that foster student learning in transformative ways. Plain-Language Summary: This review explored literature that describes or investigates how knowledge about the profession's core concept of occupation is taught and assessed. The articles included for final review discussed multiple perspectives of occupation, recognized teaching of occupation as independent of therapy as the most common, identified experiential learning as the main teaching strategy, and noted that assessment of occupation was much less represented. Results of the review indicate a need for educators to be more knowledgeable about occupation and to create more authentic, transformative learning experiences to strengthen student knowledge about occupation.