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Assessment Of Psychology Competencies In Field Placements: Standardized Vignettes Reduce Rater Bias, Craig J. Gonsalvez, John Bushnell, Russell Blackman, Frank Deane, Vida Bliokas, Kathryn Nicholson-Perry, Alice Shires, Yasmina Nasstasia, Christopher Allan, Roslyn Knight

Faculty of Social Sciences - Papers (Archive)

Supervisors' ratings of psychology trainees' competence in field settings are a critical component of training assessment. There has been little systematic research regarding the validity of these assessments, but the available evidence suggests we have a problem! Supervisors' judgments may be affected by systemic biases that pose a serious threat to assessment credibility. The current study is part of a research collaboration among six universities that endeavors to develop and evaluate a new method the use of vignettes against outcomes derived from a conventional rating scale. Individual vignettes were designed and subjected to a rigorous process of peer-review and revisions, …