Sample Evaluation – Direct/mixed

Practicum Evaluation Tool

Instructions

The Practicum Evaluation Tool is used by both students and field instructors to assess practicum performance across six key domains. Both Field Instructors and Students are required to complete evaluations independently/separately, by:

• Reviewing each competency domain and its associated competency statements.
• Assigning a score (1–5) for each category.
• Providing examples of how each competency was demonstrated.
• Identifying areas for improvement.
• Summarizing overall progress and recommendations for future learning.

After submission, students and instructors should discuss the evaluations and review each other’s scores.

Review the scoring rubric and list of competencies and exemplars below.

Scoring rubric

Note: Statements marked with an asterisk (*) reflect Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) principles including anti-racism, Indigenous perspectives, accessibility and ableism, social location, and lived experience.

Direct / mixed practice

Domain 1: Learning and Growth

• Appropriately questions / seeks out guidance / consults.
• Appropriately gives / receives feedback.
• Transfers learning from field instruction to practice situations.
• Displays a strong capacity to learn.
• Demonstrates initiative, energy and motivation in achieving appropriate learning objectives.
• Demonstrates appropriate decisions related to new behaviours / interventions.
• Questions own assumptions and biases.
• Considers identity and experiences from an equity and inclusion lens.*
• Engages in ongoing reflection to identify gaps in promoting equity and inclusion in practice.*
• Actively seeks opportunities for learning and doing better.
• Seeks out opportunities to contribute.

Domain 2: Behaviour in the Organization

• Understands the organizational mandate, mission and services relevant to the practicum site.
• Highly flexible and adaptable.
• Respected and valued by agency staff.
• Shows respect to staff and works well within the agency’s culture.
• Uses organization’s communication channels, resources and protocols effectively.
• Implements documentation protocols specific to the organization’s needs.
• Demonstrates an understanding of EDI-related policies and strategies in the organization, including those associated with access and equity in service provision.*
• Follows protocols related to confidentiality, privacy and professional boundaries.

Domain 3: Conceptualizing Practice

• Identifies and discusses social work ethics.
• *Identifies and integrates EDI considerations in planning and implementing practice (e.g., legislations, cultural considerations, social and structural determinants, service barriers).
• Competent and flexible in applying numerous theories in practice.
• Translates evidence into practice.
• Understands and carries out the agency’s mandate while remaining sensitive to service-users’ situation and needs.
• Possesses strong critical thinking skills.

Domain 4: Relationships with Service Users

• Uses self / social-position appropriately.
• Demonstrates self-awareness in relation to experiences of service users.
• Establishes and sustains effective relationships with service users.
• Identifies and integrates EDI considerations in developing relationships with service users (e.g., cultural awareness, trauma-informed, power dynamics).*
• Is genuine, respectful and focused on service user.
• Understands / draws appropriately from own experiences to understand service user experiences.
• Uses creativity to connect with service users when needed.

Domain 5: Assessment and Intervention

• Seeks and analyzes input from relevant stakeholders.
• Identifies / addresses barriers to service access and utilization.
• Constructs clear, concise and comprehensive assessments.
• Develops comprehensive intervention plans (with timelines, stakeholders, and resources identified).
• Able to intervene efficiently and effectively.
• Identifies and integrates service user experiences and identity (e.g., cultural considerations, barriers, social and structural determinants) into assessment and treatment / intervention.*
• Monitors progress.
• Demonstrates understanding of feedback-informed treatment and evaluation of intervention.

Domain 6: Professional Communication

• Produces clear, well-developed reports.
• Confidently delivers clearly organized and effective presentations.
• Uses comprehensive verbal skills.
• Uses comprehensive written skills.
• Maintains professional boundaries.
• Actively demonstrates respect and inclusion across situations and groups.*
• Demonstrates respect for agency’s time and resources (e.g., punctual, prepared).