Investigation of Reasoning Strategies A researcher is interested in assessing physiotherapy students’ clinical reasoning skills. She knows that there are several methods of doing this because she is...

Investigation of Reasoning Strategies

A researcher is interested in assessing physiotherapy students’ clinical reasoning skills. She knows that there are several methods of doing this because she is familiar with outcome-based performance measures, but she would like to understand the different strategies that students use to arrive at the solution of a patient problem. If the physiotherapist aims at capturing the actual process of reasoning, what quantitative method is the most useful to meeting his or her aims?