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Product Description
Are you a student preparing for the NBCOT exam? Looking for only one study guide to help you prepare for this important day? Wondering what thousands of your peers and fellow students have relied on for their studying needs? The answer is the OT Exam Review Manual-now available in a completely updated and revised fourth edition.
This invaluable study tool is designed to guide students through the studying process from start to finish. With a redesigned question format to match the NBCOT exam, more questions, and an on-line testing component, this fourth edition is a study guide that inspires critical thinking.
Karen Sladyk and her co-authors incorporate domain, task, and knowledge style questions as a way to prepare students for the pace of the NBCOT exam. This collection of questions enables students to think logically for the answers, not just practice for the exam.
The OT Exam Review Manual, Fourth Edition also includes an on-line testing component. With 350 questions (150 more than the software included with the previous edition), students are able to maximize their computer testing skills and assists with integrated learning.
Covering topics such as study habits, content outlines, fieldwork, and waiting for results, the OT Exam Review Manual, Fourth Edition is the most current and extensive review on the market for occupational therapy students.
Features:
- Contains 600 questions (50 more than the previous edition)
- Redesigned question format to match new NBCOT exam
- Includes a new user-friendly, on-line testing component incorporating questions from the book
- Worksheets, time organizers, and a recommended reading list
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #589175 in Books
- Published on: 2004-10-27
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Paperback
- 232 pages
Editorial Reviews
About the Author
Karen Sladyk, PhD, OTR/L, FAOTA, has a BS in Occupational Therapy from Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti; an MS in Community Health from Southern Connecticut State University, New Haven; and a PhD in Adult and Vocational Education from the University of Connecticut, Storrs. Karen teaches at Bay Path College in Longmeadow, MA. Her occupational therapy interests include clinical reasoning and fieldwork. She resides in Tolland, CT in a small house with two cats. When she is not busy with academic challenges, she enjoys quilt making.
Signian McGeary, MS, OTR/L, has 25 years of adult physical disability practice following her degree in Occupational Therapy from Quinnipiac University, Hamden, CT. Her transition into teaching has resulted in a MS in Adult Education. Her current clinical interests include a research study in hip fractures and international travel. She has studied Mandarin Chinese to prepare for educational clinical exchanges in China with the World Health Organization. She has taken students to numerous countries for nontraditional fieldwork and will teach OT in Africa next year. Her husband, two daughters, and son-in-law, as well as her grandchildren, share and support her love of international travel.
Lori S. Gilmore, MS, CSE, has a BS degree in Social Work from Southern Connecticut State University, New Haven; a teaching certificate in Special Education; and a MS in Language Arts from Central Connecticut State College, New Britain. She has completed an advanced graduate degree in Learning Disabilities at the University of Connecticut, Storrs. When she is not busy with work and school, she is active in community activities with her new family, including her three sons, Brent, Seth, and Blake. Lori also holds a teaching position (secondary) and enjoys quilt making but is much different from her sister, Karen Sladyk, in that she only has one cat.
Roseanna Tufano, MFT, OTR/L, has a BS degree in Occupational Therapy from Quinnipiac University, Hamden, CT. She has worked in a variety of psychiatric settings since 1980 as a staff OT and consultant. She is presently assistant professor at Quinnipiac University where she teaches psychopathology, group dynamics, clinical media, and psychosocial aspects of physical disabilities. Roseanna completed her master’s in Marriage and Family Therapy. She resides with her husband, Lou, and their two children, Carissa and Brett. They continue to be her source for love, inspiration, and fun.
Customer Reviews
This book was a disappointment
Greetings,
Let me start out by saying that I passed the certification test on my first try with a very high score.
Having said that, unforunately this book simply does not prepare you for the NBCOT certification exam. I would recommend this only as a add-on to other material and others books, specifically the one I liked was by Caryn Johnson "The Occupational Therapy Examination Review Guide".
As far as this book goes:
- The majority of the questions are *not even close* to the same format as you will encounter on the certification test. On the NBCOT test, ALL of the questions are based on clinical reasoning. This book has many questions like "Where on the body would you find the acromion process?" and way too few questions that resemble the real deal.
- The explanation of the correct answer is somewhat limited.
- For a few of their questions, I honestly thought their explanation for the 'correct' answer was actually incorrect!
- The wrong choices from their sample questions are barely discussed. In the book by Caryn Johnson, they explain every choice, why one answer is correct and why the other choices are incorrect.
- They do not reference the source material from where their explanation came from. In the Caryn Johnson book, it would list a detailed answer, then the book AND the chapter from which this question was formulated. That was a huge help because I would flip open my textbook and immediately read up on that subject.
- This book did come with a voucher to take an online, timed test. But that online test did not have ANY explanation of the answers, right or wrong.
This book isn't horrible. It will get you thinking in the test-taking frame of mind and it will provide you some helpful advice. As an add-on book to other stuff, it will help you. However, I would recommend not letting this book be your only source.
Good luck.
OTR Exam, yikes!
Sladyk's study book was one of the major tools I used to prepare for the OTR exam. Her inclusion of explanations to the answers (both right and wrong) was the most useful feature of the guide, providing the reader with instant feedback and info. A suggestion for future editions would be to include references with the answers so the reader could access additional information. Occasionally there would be an answer that I didn't understand and I REALLY wanted to read more about it, which isn't always an easy (or quick) task when you're not sure where to look first. Also, this study guide does not reflect the recent format change of the NBCOT exam. The exam now asks questions in a more problem-solving/case study style rather than the "reciting facts" edge it apparently used to have (or at least so I had heard). The NBCOT Study Guide (although pricy at $40) was very helpful with enlightening the reader with the new flair of question format. Karen Sladyk has also published (through Slack as well)a box of OT study cards, which are SO GREAT. I owe a friend of mine (Libby) bigtime for giving me these handy cards. Wow. Concise. Granted, they don't go into extreme detail, but Sladyk and her colleagues choose words wisely for the limited space. Don't shove these in the closet when the exam is over. They're too useful! Best of luck for anyone studying for the next OTR exam.
OTR who took the March 2000 NBCOT exam
I used this book as a study guide to practice my timing by answering 200 question at a time within the 4 hour period given for the NBCOT exam. I found that the questions did not even come close to what was on the certification exam, but it was helpful because it looks at all aspects of therapy. My advice would be to order the NBCOT study guide because it comes the closest to what you will see on the actual exam. Good Luck.
