Teacher practice
Can EQUIP competency training fit a university course?
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Students and faculty at Makerere University found EQUIP competency-based training feasible and useful for pre-service clinical psychology education.
Study at a glance
- Design
- Qualitative / archival — Focus groups and interviews on EQUIP competency-based training in clinical psychology
- N
- N=27 · 27 students, faculty, and practitioners
- Population
- Makerere University clinical psychology programme stakeholders
- Outcome
- Perceived feasibility and usefulness of embedded EQUIP competency-based training
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Key findings
Participants judged the approach feasible and useful for standardising competence and addressing gaps left by unstructured curricula. Early concerns about rating tools such as ENACT eased as training progressed with practice and real application with students.
Methodology
Researchers collected focus-group and interview data from students, faculty, and practitioners about a brief EQUIP competency-based training embedded around Makerere University's clinical psychology programme, including role-play assessments and feedback.
Limitations
This qualitative feasibility study does not quantify client outcomes or prove superiority to other curricula in a controlled trial. Findings are tied to one university setting and a relatively short training dose.
How this study connects
Role on claims
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Teacher and student interview accounts of the same blended courses did not always name the same community-building activities. EQUIP interviews and focus groups at Makerere judged a brief competency training feasible, with early ENACT-rating concerns easing — a practitioner-feasibility story, not an engagement-loneliness story. Interviews answer the prompt you wrote, not a single engagement construct.
Evidence for the claim as stated.
Not every paper under this label is doing the same analytic job. Ableism and EMBARC analyses interpret identity and culture in talk. EQUIP focus groups and interviews judge feasibility of competency rating (ENACT concerns easing with practice). The AI-analytics paper’s headline numbers are SNA metrics on 62 students, with reflections alongside. Shared 'theme' vocabulary is not a shared finding.
Evidence for the claim as stated.
Open questions
Tensions this paper is part of
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Teacher and student interview accounts of the same blended courses did not always name the same community-building activities. EQUIP interviews and focus groups at Makerere judged a brief competency training feasible, with early ENACT-rating concerns easing — a practitioner-feasibility story, not an engagement-loneliness story. Interviews answer the prompt you wrote, not a single engagement construct.
- Supports · Sense of community in blended courses
Not every paper under this label is doing the same analytic job. Ableism and EMBARC analyses interpret identity and culture in talk. EQUIP focus groups and interviews judge feasibility of competency rating (ENACT concerns easing with practice). The AI-analytics paper’s headline numbers are SNA metrics on 62 students, with reflections alongside. Shared 'theme' vocabulary is not a shared finding.
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