Workshop Review

“ Enhancing Practical Skills in nursing through

Evaluation Techniques (OSCE & OSPE)”

Venue: GINERA, Ahmedabad

Date: 5th February 2019
• Registration
• Breakfast
• Inauguration
Ceremony
Scientific Sessions
• Session 1: OSPE
• Session 2: OSCE
OSPE
 Objective Structured Practical
Examination
• Testing, Measuremnt and Evaluation play an
important role in all educational institutes.
• New pattern of Practical Exam
• In OSPE each component of practical
competence is tested uniformly and objectively
for all the students.
• Summative and Formative Assessment
 Need of Evaluation
• Teaching Process : Objectives → Teaching
Learning Process →
Evaluation → New/ Modified
Objectives
 Bloom’s Taxonomy
• Cognitive Domain
• Affective Domain
• Psychomotor Domain
 Why OSPE?
• Draw back to Traditional Practical
Examination
– General Outcome
– Subjectivity (Glass-Half Empty/Half filled)
– Reflects general performance but…but.. Not on
individual competencies
– Failure to identifying underperforming students
 Why OSPE? Contnd…
• OSPE First Time introduced in 1979 by R.M.
Harden and F. A. Gleeson
• To get rid of previously mentioned drwabacks
find out technique to assess students’
competencies in manual techniques.
 Objectives of OSPE
• To assess the competence of students at the
end of practical training
• Skills are tested – Observation, Analysis,
Interpretation
 OSPE
Merits Demerits
Evidence Based Lots of efforts for initial set up
Uniform Planning and organization is the key
element
Very Objective Faculties effort for construct, review and
developing multidisciplinary questions
Tests wide range of skills Availability of quality data
Opportunity for feedback Knowledge and skills are tested in
compartents

Organized Prepation of question bank – Time

consuming
Procedure of OSPE
 Conclusion
It is more skill oriented rather
of an individual’s capacity to store the
information in BRAIN!!!