Fieldwork Experience Assessment Tool

The Fieldwork Experience Assessment Tool (FEAT) identifies essential characteristics for each of three component areas related to your fieldwork site. It assessment the demands of the environment,  the fieldwork educator, and the student. It is a look at the interaction between these three and a rating of the demands and the skills. It looks at the balance between these three components and opens the topics for discussion and problem solving. 

 This may be very helpful to both of you.

Click here to download the FEAT form in pdf format.

Additionally, an article titled Creating a Successful Fieldwork Experience: The Fieldwork Experience Assessment Tool was published in 

OT Practice, March 2002, AOTA Continuing Education Article.

It discusses the use of the FEAT and provides some examples.

This form was created by the American Occupational Therapy Association-Fieldwork Research Team- Karen Atler, Karmen Brown, Lu Ann Griswold, Wendy Krupnick, Luz Muniz de Melandez, and Patricia Stutz-Tanenbaum.