The Colorado OT Fieldwork Educator Consortium (COTFWEd) is a partnership bridging OT and OTA academic programs to promote excellence and innovation in fieldwork education to best serve students and the community at large.

The goals of the COTFWEd Consortium are to:

1. Mentor and support professional development for Academic Fieldwork Coordinators

2. Support and validate ways to problem solve and share strategies for excellence in fieldwork education

3. Education and exploration of non-traditional sites and alternatives for fieldwork education

4. Facilitate best practice in fieldwork education

5. Prepare others for the role of being fieldwork educators and sites

We would like to share resources with our clinical educators and students to promote best practices in fieldwork education.

The Colorado OT Fieldwork Educators (COTFWEd) Consortium
Colorado State University, Pima Medical Institute, Pueblo Community College, Creighton University-Regis Pathway, and Colorado Mesa University

Level II Fieldwork Performance Evaluation

In 2020, the AOTA Fieldwork Performance Evaluation (AOTA FWPE) was revised and is now scored using the Formstack online portal. While it may look similar, some of the questions are different and the scoring criteria has changed. 

Here are a few of the key changes, depending on your student’s educational institution if they are using Formstack:

• The Formstack online portal is used to score the mid-term and final AOTA FWPE. 

• ALL questions must be scored for both mid-term and final.

• Fieldwork educators will receive an email from noreply@formstack.com or from the academic fieldwork coordinator at the school with the link to the midterm and final. 

Midterm

• At mid-term, there is no pass/fail score. 

Final

• At final, the criterion for OT students passing is now 111 points (it is no longer 122). For OTA students, passing score is 91 (it is no longer 70).

• At final, students must score a 3 or higher on questions #1, #2, and #3.

• At final, if a student scores a 1 on any item the student may not pass.  

For additional information, please see the New AOTA Fieldwork Performance Evaluation (FWPE) and Formstack

Remediation Ideas for Students (developed by University of South Alabama)

https://www.southalabama.edu/colleges/alliedhealth/ot/fwsupervision/remediation.html 

Ideas for what to include in a Student Fieldwork Manual (source: Michigan OT Association)

https://www.aota.org/Education-Careers/Fieldwork/NewPrograms/Content.aspx

Fieldwork, Resource Page, Data Form, Site specific objectives for OT and OTA, Bibliography of articles (source: New England Education Council

Student Project and Research Ideas

Colorado State University

Pima Medical Institute

Pueblo Community College

Creighton University

Fieldwork Coordinator Contact Information