EVALUATION INSTRUMENTS IN COMPETENCY-BASED TRAINING IN PHYSICAL THERAPY: AN INTEGRATIVE LITERATURE REVIEW

Abstract

Learning and teaching is a continuous process that involves the evaluation of learning, bringing in its context meaningful understandings to students, teachers and educational institutions. Evaluation systematically allows the measurement of the learning achieved, through self-evaluation processes, experiences and the formulation of strategies to improve the educational process. This study aims to identify assessment instruments in the competency-based training of physical therapy students or professionals, and to obtain the results of the validation of each instrument. For this study, an Integrative Literature Review was carried out that explored the concept of competency-based training in physiotherapy professionals, in the Capes Periódicos, BIREME, Scielo, ERIC and PUBMED directories, with descriptors used in Portuguese, English and Spanish. From the search, a total of 24,821 articles were found and after the selection stages, 14 articles remained. As a result, most of the articles were between two directories Capes Periódicos and BIREME, the English language, and the descriptors "Physiotherapy x Evaluative instrument" and "Physiotherapy x Professional evaluation". And with the highest publication between the years 2020 and 2022 and carried out in different contexts such as academics, physiotherapists and teaching professionals. It is concluded that the research showed that educational instruments in the training of physiotherapists provide positive results, improving theoretical-practical learning and developing essential skills such as communication and clinical reasoning. However, more research and development of new instruments is needed to cater to students' individualities in diverse practice settings.