Full Description
This timely text describes the role of program evaluation in counselor education and provides step-by-step guidance for faculty seeking to develop comprehensive Student Learning Outcome (SLO) evaluation plans to meet accountability expectations. It serves as a blueprint for demystifying the SLO process and making the switch from an input-based measure of productivity that focuses on what counseling programs do, to an outcome-based approach that concentrates on the quality of learning through evidence-based assessment of students' knowledge and skills.
The first and second parts of the book lay the foundation for the SLO process and provide practical guidance for identifying and developing direct and indirect measures of student learning. Part III offers strategies for creating measures; collecting, managing, and reporting student data; and using data to ensure competence. In Part IV, counselor educators across the country offer hands-on application through a wide variety of SLO activities and rubrics linked to each of the curricular and specialty areas of the 2016 CACREP Standards.
Contents
Part I : Context. The SLO movement
The bigger picture of program evaluation
Identifying objectives and mapping curricula processes
Part II. Selecting assessments and developing measures. Course-based assessments
Field experiences
Comprehensive examinations
Portfolios
Theses and dissertations
Dispositions
Indirect measures
Creating measures
Part III. Moving forward. Collecting and managing data
Analyzing data
Reporting data
Using data to enhance programs
Using data to support individual student development
Using data in the SoTL
Part IV. Applications. Professional counseling orientation and ethical practice
Social and cultural diversity
Human growth and development
Career counseling and development
Counseling and helping relationships
Group counseling and group work
Assessment and testing
Research and program evaluation
Addiction counseling
Career counseling
Clinical mental health counseling
Clinical rehabilitation counseling
College counseling and student affairs
Marriage, couples, and family counseling
School counseling
Counselor education and supervision: counseling
Counselor education and supervision: supervision
Counselor education and supervision: teaching
Counselor education and supervision: research
Counselor Education and supervision: leadership and advocacy
