Assessment of Motor and Process Skills (AMPS)
Tools for giving an AMPS in-service
Are you expected to give an AMPS in-service? Is the thought of synthesizing the enormous amount of information covered in the week of the course overwhelming? This page is designed to help you with organizing your in-service. Use this page to access:
- a Power-Point presentation that can be downloaded and easily adapted to your specific needs
- hints for tailoring your in-service to specific audiences
The PowerPoint presentation contains 28 images that can be computer-projected (or else printed onto transparencies and shown on an overhead projector). Each slide contains notes and suggestions to help you prepare the content of your talk. The presentation has been designed as a general, introductory in-service, but we encourage you to modify it as you see fit to meet the needs and interests of your audience.
Hints for giving an AMPS in-service
As with any presentation, one of the first things to consider when preparing is, "Who will be in the audience?" Different groups of people will want different types of information. Clinicians, for example, will want to know about how the AMPS will help them in their daily practice. Researchers and academics will want to know about research supporting the validity and reliability of the AMPS. The information below will help you think about special considerations to modify your in-service for different types of audiences.
- Audience: Research Colleagues
- Encourage them to read published AMPS studies - have copies available of the selected reference list (from the course handouts or from the References page)
- Refer them to Chapter 7 in Volume 1 of the manual (Fifth Edition) - validity and reliability studies (offer to let them borrow your copy, but please do not photocopy the chapter)
- Discuss limitations of existing functional assessments (section 2.1.1, Fifth Edition of the AMPS Manual, Volume 1, p.14)
- Show the computer-generated Graphic Report and explain how it can be used to objectively measure outcomes
- Audience: Academicians
- Incorporate the hints above for targeting to an audience of research colleagues
- Explain that the AMPS is a method of performance analysis (Chapter 4, Fifth Edition); clarify how a performance analysis is different from a task or activity analysis
- Point out that the AMPS is a complex assessment and that students will need to take an AMPS workshop to learn to administer and score it
- If you have given several AMPS evaluations, consider using a case example to demonstrate how AMPS can be used in the intervention planning process
- Audience: Occupational Therapy Clinicians
- Use a case example
- Show your computer generated reports
- Allow extra time to discuss how you interpreted results, set goals, and planned intervention
- Audience: Clinicians from Related Disciplines
- Include general information about the unique focus of occupational therapy (the conceptual model is useful to illustrate this) (p. 21)
- Give general information about the AMPS
- Focus on what we can learn by giving an AMPS that we cannot learn from other assessments
- Have copies of the selected reference list available
This page was last modified on 27 November 2011