Professional School
Counseling Praxis 5421 |
Study Guide, Practice
Questions & Exam
Review
|Guaranteed success|
,Foundation CSPSs; program focus: vision and mission
statements; student competencies; professional
competencies
Management Use of time assessment; annual agreements;
advisory councils; use of data to measure the results
of program; curriculum and group plans; calendars;
counselor competencies and program assessments
Delivery Direct student services: core curriculum, individual
planning, responsive services...Indirect: consultation
and collaboration
Accountability Analyze data from management section, how are
students different as a result of the CSCP,
performance of school counselor. Program
evaluation, research, and assessment
Helps professional school counselors analyze data
Using data to measure impact of services
Guide new programming
Judge performance
helps professional school counselors analyze data
Time assessments and school data profile analysis
are most effective as accountability tools for
program evaluations
Annual school-wide needs assessment and program
evaluations would be considered an activity within
accountability
Wrap up: make sure program is effective use data to
measure impact; evaluation
National model themes Leadership, advocacy, collaboration, systemic
change
Leadership Supports achievement, advances delivery of CSCP,
influence others
,Advocacy For student achievement, school/community
collaboration, systems advocacy
Systemic change Awareness, exploration, transition, emergence with
new
Kohlberg level of moral development 1. Pre-conventional: from society. 2. Conventional:
internalize morals. 3. Post conventional: individual
reasoning
Use of wisc iv Measures general intellectual functioning --> verbal,
perceptual, working memory, processing speed
Formative stages Group identity and development
Inventories Kuder, Strong Interest Inventory
Types of data Outcome: Achievement, attendance, behavior, or
safety data
Process: # of students identified
Perception: Attainment of competencies, changes in
attitudes and beliefs
Types of consultation Prescription, provision, initiation, collaboration,
mediation
Storming in Groups? Compete over roles in group; struggle with HOW to
achieve goals
, Sensorimotor Stage 1: learn through sensory experiences; up to
age 2
Preoperational Stage 2: pretend play; 2-7
Concrete operational Stage 3: logical but rigid; 7-11
Formal operational Stage 4: abstract ideas; 11 into adulthood
Sampling method Cluster, convenience, quota, simple random
Consultation models Triadic-dependent/independent, collaborative of
both too
Criterion-referenced validity If an aptitude test predicts college success, look @
1st year GPAs
How do professional school Professional organizations (ASCA)
counselors access research Peer-reviewed journals
resources? Library or Internet (cautiously)
What factors are important for school Asks important questions
counselors to examine when Sound research design with clear goals
interpreting research? Legal and ethical
Instruments should be validated
Counseling Praxis 5421 |
Study Guide, Practice
Questions & Exam
Review
|Guaranteed success|
,Foundation CSPSs; program focus: vision and mission
statements; student competencies; professional
competencies
Management Use of time assessment; annual agreements;
advisory councils; use of data to measure the results
of program; curriculum and group plans; calendars;
counselor competencies and program assessments
Delivery Direct student services: core curriculum, individual
planning, responsive services...Indirect: consultation
and collaboration
Accountability Analyze data from management section, how are
students different as a result of the CSCP,
performance of school counselor. Program
evaluation, research, and assessment
Helps professional school counselors analyze data
Using data to measure impact of services
Guide new programming
Judge performance
helps professional school counselors analyze data
Time assessments and school data profile analysis
are most effective as accountability tools for
program evaluations
Annual school-wide needs assessment and program
evaluations would be considered an activity within
accountability
Wrap up: make sure program is effective use data to
measure impact; evaluation
National model themes Leadership, advocacy, collaboration, systemic
change
Leadership Supports achievement, advances delivery of CSCP,
influence others
,Advocacy For student achievement, school/community
collaboration, systems advocacy
Systemic change Awareness, exploration, transition, emergence with
new
Kohlberg level of moral development 1. Pre-conventional: from society. 2. Conventional:
internalize morals. 3. Post conventional: individual
reasoning
Use of wisc iv Measures general intellectual functioning --> verbal,
perceptual, working memory, processing speed
Formative stages Group identity and development
Inventories Kuder, Strong Interest Inventory
Types of data Outcome: Achievement, attendance, behavior, or
safety data
Process: # of students identified
Perception: Attainment of competencies, changes in
attitudes and beliefs
Types of consultation Prescription, provision, initiation, collaboration,
mediation
Storming in Groups? Compete over roles in group; struggle with HOW to
achieve goals
, Sensorimotor Stage 1: learn through sensory experiences; up to
age 2
Preoperational Stage 2: pretend play; 2-7
Concrete operational Stage 3: logical but rigid; 7-11
Formal operational Stage 4: abstract ideas; 11 into adulthood
Sampling method Cluster, convenience, quota, simple random
Consultation models Triadic-dependent/independent, collaborative of
both too
Criterion-referenced validity If an aptitude test predicts college success, look @
1st year GPAs
How do professional school Professional organizations (ASCA)
counselors access research Peer-reviewed journals
resources? Library or Internet (cautiously)
What factors are important for school Asks important questions
counselors to examine when Sound research design with clear goals
interpreting research? Legal and ethical
Instruments should be validated
