LEARNING FROM THE MASTER - AN INSTRUMENT FOR MEASURING INTERACTIONS IN TEACHING PSYCHOLOGY

Teaching is an important part of the clinician's role, yet the dearth of suitable instruments creates an obstacle to its systematic evaluati on. This is turn makes audit difficult and obstructs the feedback to t he teacher, so diminishing learning and effectiveness. A new instrumen t, the Measure of Adult Styles of Teaching and Evaluation Record (MAST ER) is offered as a partial solution to these associated problems. In a validity study, the 'MASTER' differentiated as predicted between did actic and experiential teaching methods employed to train care staff i n an in-service training programme. Inter-rater reliability was also a dequate. It is concluded that the MASTER is a sound instrument which c an aid audit and the development of clinicians as teachers, but that a more substantive analysis is required before the MASTER can be consid ered suitable for a major evaluation.