Perceived Utility of a Self-Evaluation Procedure by Students in Speech-Language Pathology

Abstract

A 58-item Likert attitude scale was developed and administered to thirty Speech-Language Pathology graduate students in order to obtain their percertions of a self-evaluation procedure used in a clinical training facility. Significant correlations were obtained between the clinicians' perception of the overall usefulness of this self-evaluation procedure, and a majority (61%) of the items on the scale. Significant correlations were obtained for several pairs of demographic items. The implications of these results for the clinical supervision process are discussed, as well as the need for further research on this topic.