Physical therapy school and clinical training facilities cooperate in verifying Rubric: Analysis of user’s feedbacks by content analysis to clarify tasks and improvements

Abstract

[Purpose] The present study was undertaken in order to obtain objective knowledge for revising rubric style. [Subjects and Methods] In the study, samples from 189 clinical training facilities were gathered. The questionnaire reply form used in this part of this research was free descriptions about feedbacks on using rubric, and the replies were subjected to content analysis. [Results] Fifty-four context units and 98 record units were extracted from the feedbacks. From the results, we were able to form 14 new sub categories and four more categories in rubric style. [Conclusion] The results of the content analysis explain that the feedbacks showed rubric’s advantages, issues, improvement points, and future possibilities. The results of this study indicate that rubric can be a proper performance evaluation method. This study will be of value in the field of developing and revising very practical rubrics for authors.