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Comparing Self and Expert Assessments of Counseling Skills before and after Skills Training, and upon Graduation
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Lepkowski, William J.; Packman, Jill; Smaby, Marlowe H.; Maddux, Cleborne – Education, 2009
Counselor ability to accurately self-assess their competence is important to ethical practice. However, research indicates that people in general are not reliable in judging their own competence. This study compared the self-assessments of skills of 69 counselors-in-training to the skill ratings of trained expert-raters at three points during…
Descriptors: Counselor Training, Ethics, Pretests Posttests, Self Evaluation (Individuals)
Performance Assessment of Counseling Skills Based on Specific Theories: Acquisition, Retention and Transfer to Actual Counseling Sessions
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Schaefle, Scott; Smaby, Marlowe H.; Packman, Jill; Maddux, Cleborne D. – Education, 2007
The purposes of the present study were to determine if (a) students trained to demonstrate specific skills learn these skills and transfer them to actual counseling sessions; (b) mastery of counseling skills differs by students' adherence to one of four general counseling theories; (c) mastery of counseling skills is related to counseling goal…
Descriptors: Counseling Theories, Counseling Objectives, Performance Based Assessment, Performance Tests
The Skilled Counselor Training Model: Skills Acquisition, Self-Assessment, and Cognitive Complexity
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Little, Cassandra; Packman, Jill; Smaby, Marlowe H.; Maddux, Cleborne D. – Counselor Education and Supervision, 2005
The authors evaluated the effectiveness of the Skilled Counselor Training Model (SCTM; M. H. Smaby, C. D. Maddux, E. Torres-Rivera, & R. Zimmick, 1999) in teaching counseling skills and in fostering counselor cognitive complexity. Counselor trainees who completed the SCTM had better counseling skills and higher levels of cognitive complexity than…
Descriptors: Counselor Training, Instructional Effectiveness, Control Groups, Self Evaluation (Individuals)
Performance Assessment of Skills and Personal Development of Counseling Students as Predictors of Social-Influence Ratings by Clients
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Smaby, Marlowe H.; Maddux, Cleborne; Packman, Jill; Lepkowski, William J.; Richmond, Aaron S.; LeBeauf, Ireon – Education, 2005
Educators of professionals often want to determine the quality of student performance and its impact on those they serve. Performance assessment in the education of teachers, medical practitioners, and counselors, for example, currently receives much discussion and debate in the literature (Vaugh & Everhart, 2004; Howley, 2003; and, Urbani et al.,…
Descriptors: Performance Based Assessment, Counselor Training, Graduate Students, Counseling Effectiveness
Academic Admission Requirements as Predictors of Counseling Knowledge, Personal Development, and Counseling Skills
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Smaby, Marlowe H.; Maddux, Cleborne D.; Richmond, Aaron S.; Lepkowski, William J.; Packman, Jill – Counselor Education and Supervision, 2005
The authors investigated whether undergraduates' scores on the Verbal and Quantitative tests of the Graduate Record Examinations and their undergraduate grade point average can be used to predict knowledge, personal development, and skills of graduates of counseling programs. Multiple regression analysis produced significant models predicting…
Descriptors: Predictor Variables, Individual Development, Undergraduate Students, Scores