A reflective review of educational events with marker potential on a full-time occupational therapy course

This study will form the first stage of a planned four-year longitudinal study of educational marker events using representative samples of full and part time occupational therapy students. A review of the literature will be undertaken to highlight current themes and facilitate further refinement of the marker event review schedule, which was initially developed for use in the pilot study. Events with marker potential will be identified from a student perspective using the aforementioned schedule. Results will be analyzed using thematic analysis methodology and emerging themes will form the basis of the discussion. These emerging themes will be used to identfy those University based educational events which are significant for the learner in terms of their marker potential. Based on criteria including those events most commonly referred to by the students coupled with the realistic assessment of the workability of significant staff intervention, two events will be selected. A strategy will be designed which will facilitate refinement of the instructional programme, relating to the selected two events and post implementation the marker event review schedule will be used for evaluation purposes