Professor Marion Bogo's stellar academic career was distinguished by her long-standing advocacy for high quality assessment of social work students. Her work was a driving force behind the development of meaningful, authentic and relevant field assessment that incorporates specific, definable, observable skills with higher-order thinking. This…

Psychometric instruments have been underutilized by counselor educators in performance assessment and program evaluation efforts. As such, we conducted a review of the literature that revealed 41 instruments fit for such efforts. We described and critiqued these instruments along four dimensions--"Target Domain," "Format,"…

The paper outlines a faculty developed communication skills training lab designed for students in a masters degree program in guidance and counselor education. The communication module, three voluntary, ungraded sessions offered during three of the final six class meetings, focus attention on (1) distinguishing between thinking, feeling, and…

The Multicultural Competency Checklist can be used by counseling training programs as a pragmatic guide in multicultural program development. The checklist includes 22 items organized along 6 major themes: (1) minority representation; (2) curriculum issues; (3) counseling practice and supervision; (4) research considerations; (5) student and…