Research Note—Dyadic OSCE Subscales: Measuring Students’ Ability to Work With Parents and LGBTQ Children

Abstract

ABSTRACT This article presents the results of two pilot studies focused on examining social work students’ ability to interview two clients at once to provide evidence supporting the use of new dyadic subscales. Students participated in a simulation scenario with either a parent and bisexual child or a parent and transgender child. Licensed social workers rated the students by using two dyadic subscales: five items designed to assess students’ communication skills in a dyadic client interview and five items designed to evaluate students’ reflections on their experience facilitating a dyadic client interview. This article provides initial reliability scores and describes how subscale items improved internal consistency for the objective structured clinical examination Performance Rating Scale and Reflection Rating Scale.