Using Think-aloud Interviews to Examine a Clinically Oriented Performance Assessment Rubric

A structured rubric for evaluating the many systemic variables that can contribute to parent–child contact problems (PCCP)

“…They have been proposed as a means of standardizing and improving editorial peer review (Howard et al, 2021), guiding student research efforts (Boysen et al, 2020), and assessing new child welfare workers' competence (Havig et al, 2020). Educators and educational psychologists have established rubrics to standardize classroom observations (Allison et al, 2022), to conduct reading assessments (Roduta‐Roberts et al, 2022), and for the identification of at‐risk students (Burkhardt et al, 2020). “Although under certain circumstances (e.g., strict time constraints) rubrics might induce stress and pressure and thus hinder task performance, overall meta‐analyses and narrative reviews clearly indicate beneficial effects of rubrics on the application of self‐regulated learning strategies, self‐efficacy, motivation, and task performance” (Krebs et al, 2022; citations excised).…”