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Counseling and School Psychology Graduate Program Assessment Report 2003: Capstone Experience, Internship

Submitted Fall, 2003

Capstone Experience, Internship -- All students are required to successfully complete an internship experience, which involves direct field experience in a specialized professional work setting under the supervision of a qualified professional and the Department internship coordinator. Multiple evaluators, including the site supervisor assess the students effectiveness in demonstrating competence related to learning objective.

Multiple evaluators assess the following learning objectives and all Program Goals:
SCLO: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10
CCLO: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8
SPLO: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, 11
 

Assessment:    Interns,  Community Counseling    N = 16   X = 4.6    (1 - 5 scale, 5 = high)
    School Counseling    N = 17   X = 9.19    (1 - 10 = High)

Interpretation and Recommendations:

The results indicate that field placement supervisors rate interns as very effective in meeting the internship requirements. There is on-going support related to the usefulness of this assessment procedure. The assessment rubric will be reviewed to determine that the instrument used reflects relevant program learning objectives.