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Establishing Inter-Rater Reliability Of The Occupation-Centered Intervention Assessment For Student Observation Of Rehabilitation Interventions, Vanessa D. Jewell, Joy Burkley, Taylor Wienkes, Ted K. Kaufman

Journal of Occupational Therapy Education

The Occupation-Centered Intervention Assessment (OCIA) is a tool designed to capture and rank occupational therapy interventions through an occupational lens to improve occupational therapy students’ professional reasoning skills. The purpose of this study was to determine the inter-rater reliability of the OCIA for occupational therapy interventions provided to adults with physical rehabilitation needs as observed by occupational therapy students. Utilizing a methodological research approach, 111 students completed training for application of the OCIA and independently scored five standardized videos of occupational therapy interventions. Results indicated an overall agreement of α=0.856 using Krippendorff’s alpha. Student raters demonstrated good agreement for rating …