SACSCOC Fifth Year Interim Report
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Assessment : 2012 - 2013 : Educational Programs :
Counseling MED (School Counselor)
Counseling MED (School Counselor)
3 Goals 3 Objectives 3 Indicators 3 Criteria 3 Findings 3 Actions
| GOAL: Student Diversity |
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| Graduates of the MEd in School Counseling will demonstrate an understanding of ways to evaluate, create, and maintain a positive school environment in which diversity is acknowledged and respected. |
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| MEd school counseling students enrolled in COUN 6335 will have developed skills and knowledge required to evaluate the school environment concerning diversity utilizing the SCCOC. |
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Competence as a school counselor includes the ability to successfully complete the SCCOC and do the following: 1. respond to all items on the SCCOC 2. interpret the results of the SCCOC 3. report the results of the SCCOC to the school administrators and staff 4. make recommendations to improve the school environment in which diversity is acknowledged and respected. For 2012-2013 school year, the plan is to have COUN 6335 students complete the SCCOC and develop an Action Plan at mid-term rather than at the end of the course. School administrators and staff will be encouraged to implement Action Plan immediately. If we are able to accomplish this task, COUN 6335, students will re-evaluate the school environment looking for improvements to the three challenges based on the results of the SCCOC. In previous years, students were unable to complete the fourth step within the semester timeline. |
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| Faculty teaching COUN 6335 modified the SCCOC and Action Plan assignment this year by requiring counseling student to meet with a Leadership Team of representatives from their school (administrator, staff, and teachers) and train group members to use the SCCOC to evaluation the school environment concerning diversity. Having a Leadership Team rather than the SHSU counseling student complete the SCCOC checklist provided multiple input sources of data. After Leadership Team members completed the SCCOC checklist they met as a group to compile results and determine the greatest areas for improvement. Based on the identified areas for improvement, the SHSU counseling student developed an action plan for remediation. All students enrolled in COUN 6335 completed the assignment by developing, implementing, and evaluating the action plan they developed to address limitations and challenges of maintaining a positive school environment that acknowledges and respects diversity. |
Actions for Objective:
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To meet the objective of respecting diversity, students enrolled in COUN 6335 along with the members of their assessment team had to complete the School-wide Cultural Competency Observation Checklist (SCCOC) assignment. Students have successfully met this objective,; therefore, at this time, the action recommended is to continue implementing the assignment of completion of SCCOC. See Findings section for this objective to view a student report after implementing the SCCOC. |
| GOAL: Planning And Implementing The Developmental Guidance And Counseling Program |
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| Students in the school counseling program will develop a needs assessment and use to assess the needs of students in a school and based on the results of the needs assessment will develop a Closing the Gap Plan that is proactive and preventative in design. |
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MEd school counseling students enrolled in COUN 6335 will develop and carry out a school-wide needs assessment to determine activities and learning experiences needed as part of a proactive counseling and guidance program designed to support closing the gap for students in areas of learning, social and emotional needs. |
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School Counseling students in COUN 6335 will obtain a 100% response rate of teachers in the school completing the needs assessment designed to develop guidance and counseling activities/experiences designed to close the gap. In an effort to improve the response rate over last year’s results, COUN 6335 students will be required to schedule an appointment with campus administrators prior to requesting teachers complete the student needs assessments and seek permission to administer the needs assessment at a faculty meeting rather than individually. |
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| All of the students in COUN 6335 developed a needs assessment instrument appropriate for the grade level of the student at their school. The needs assessment was introduced and completed by teachers at a faculty meeting. Most students were successful obtaining 100% response rate from the teachers attending the faculty meeting. However, a small number of students were unable to secure 100% response rate from the total number of teachers in the school because some teachers did not attend the faculty meeting. |
Actions for Objective:
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The expectation of obtaining a completed needs assessment response rate of 100% from the teachers at the school campus where the counseling student is doing the field assignment is going to be modified for next school year (2013-2014). While most students were able to obtain 100% response rate from teachers (after several attempts to do so) the length of time it took to obtain the 100% response rate impacted student's ability to meet the due date for the assignment. Therefore, the expectation will be that 90 to 100% of the teachers on the school campus will complete the needs assessment. |
| GOAL: Research Competence |
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School Counseling MEd students enrolled in COUN 6335, Leadership, Advocacy, and Accountability will demonstrate competencies as professional reviewers of school counseling outcome research. |
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| MEd school counseling students enrolled in COUN 6335 will develop and present a scholarly presentation based on their review of outcome research addressing an identified counseling concern for the student population they plan to service. MEd students will critically evaluate research relevant to their respective areas of concern (i.e., social skills, respect for diversity, anger management, divorced families, self-esteem)and understand best practices and outcome research to apply findings to practice resulting in research driven and supported counseling. |
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| Students must score 80 out of 100 points on the Research Project Grading Rubric. Last year, we decided that Counseling MEd students would be encouraged to take the results of their research projects one step further and use the results to identify a weakness or strength of the population surveyed and share the results of their study school personnel includng building administrators and all of the teachers. |
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| All of the MEd school counseling students successfully meet this objective and demonstrated skills of evaluating outcome research and connecting research results to practice of school counseling. All students scored 80 points or better on the Research Project Grading Rubric. |
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| For the next school year (2013-2014) students enrolled in COUN 6335 will present a "Talking Points" paper based on the professional review of literature report assignment they submitted as part of the course requirement. Students review of professional literature is to be based on an age appropriate topic relevant to the student population on the campus where they are doing their field work for the course. It is recommended that students select a topic or areas identified on the needs assessment completed by teachers on the school campus. The "Talking Points" paper will be presented to teachers, administrators, and staff at the school campus. Ideally, students can briefly present the "Talking Points" paper at a faculty meeting - however, this is only a suggestion not a requirement for the course assignment. |
| Previous Cycle's "Plan for Continuous Improvement" |
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Students in the school counseling program will demonstrate skills in conceptualizing the connection between cultural sensitivity based on SCCOC, student success, and counseling program curricula. Students will take an active role in identifying, planning, and implementing a guidance unit designed to address the student needs areas identified by 100% of the teachers on their campus. Faculty teaching the school counseling course, COUN 6335, will revise directions for completing the SCCOC project clearly stating that objective data and documentation supporting the ratings assigned to the SCCOC must be included. Faculty teaching the research course, COUN 5379, will revise the action research project scoring rubric to include specific points for sharing the identified weakness and strength with the entire teaching faculty as well as with the building administrator.
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| Update on Previous Cycle's "Plan for Continuous Improvement" |
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The plans for continuous improvement as stated in this section for school year 2012-2013 were implemented with only one change. The research project described for COUN 5379 for school counseling students has been moved to COUN 6335. Therefore, the results of the research objective will be reported for school counseling students based on the research project they complete in the school counseling course, COUN 6335.
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| Plan for Continuous Improvement |
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There was one modification made to the criteria for Goal: Planning and Implementing The Developmental Guidance and Counseling Program based on the results of 2012-2013 findings. This modification reduces the number of teachers completing the needs assessment from 100% to 90 to 100%. This change results from the findings for the last two years that some students were unable to obtain a completed needs assessment from 100% of the teachers on the school campus. This was due to some teachers failure to return the completed needs assessment, teachers on long term leave, etc. Reducing the number of completers seems more realistic and will help students meet the due date for the assignment rather than be delayed in completing the assignment while waiting to collect completed needs assessments from 100% of the teachers.
Students will take the Goal: Research Competence one step further and develop a talking points paper for the teachers and administrators on the school campus based on the results of their research project. |