Final Evaluation of Student Learning Outcomes SCWK 632
MSW Advanced Empowerment Practice Behaviors
Student: _______________________________
Agency Field Instructor: _________________________
Date:
Agency: ______________________________________
_______________________________
Section I
LIST THE STUDENT’S KEY LEARNING EXPERIENCES AND ASSIGNMENTS
Section II
CORE COMPETENCIES
Please use the following scale to rate each Practice Behavior. Refer to the Learning Contract for Competency Definitions.
Put the number in the blank provided that best represents your assessment of the student’s demonstrated competency.
Does not meet:
Student does not meet
agency and professional
expectations.
Limited:
Demonstrates a limited
understanding of the skill
and shows some ability to
implement in practice, but
the student has not fully
met the expectation in this
area.
Competent:
Demonstrates a sufficient
understanding of the skill,
and is able to implement in
practice most of the time;
Meets agency and
professional expectations.
1
2
3
Excels:
Demonstrates an
outstanding ability to
consistently and effectively
implement the skill in
practice; Exceeds agency
and professional
expectations.
4
2.1.1- Identify as a professional social worker and conduct oneself accordingly.
1. _____ Identify opportunities for advanced social work involvement in empowerment-based practice across
systems.
2. _____ Work collaboratively across disciplines to provide empowerment practice services while maintaining
one’s professional identity and role responsibilities.
2.1.2- Apply social work ethical principles to guide professional practice.
3. _____ Incorporate empowerment perspectives—including attention to personal, structural, and societal
systems of power—in applying ethical decision-making skills.
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4. _____ Integrate the values and principles of ethical social work practice, including the ability to
independently assess and resolve ethical dilemmas consistent with the NASW Code of Ethics.
2.1.3- Apply critical thinking to inform and communicate professional judgments.
5. _____ Analyze and select models of assessment, prevention, intervention, and evaluation relative to an
empowerment practice perspective.
6. _____ Communicate effectively with diverse populations and with multi- or interdisciplinary systems.
2.1.4- Engage diversity and difference in practice.
7. _____ Select and apply strategies that promote empowerment in addressing inequalities shaped by cultural
structures, institutional systems, and societal values.
8. _____ Analyze and compare different social constructions of privilege, oppression, and empowerment and
their implications.
2.1.5- Advance human rights and social and economic justice.
9. _____ Recognize, analyze, and address the interconnections of oppression and discrimination and use social
change and leadership skills to promote human and civil rights.
10. _____ Select and apply integrated, empowerment practice approaches to service delivery that are equitable
and respectful of human rights and social and economic justice.
2.1.6- Engage in research-informed practice and practice-informed research.
11. _____ Select and apply evidence-based theories and methods consistent with empowerment practice.
12. _____ Work collaboratively with community-based systems to assess intervention effectiveness.
2.1.7- Apply knowledge of human behavior and the social environment.
13. _____ Demonstrate advanced knowledge of theories of human behavior and the social environment across
a range of social systems (individuals and families, groups, organizations and communities).
14. _____ Select and apply empowerment practice strategies for assisting clients in responding to human and
social problems.
2.1.8- Engage in policy practice to advance social and economic well-being and to deliver
effective social work services.
15. _____ Apply empowerment-based policy practice skills across systems to influence and facilitate effective
social services that promote human rights and advance social and economic justice.
2.1.9- Respond to contexts that shape practice.
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16. _____ Distinguish, appraise, and integrate multiple sources of knowledge, empirical evidence, and practice
wisdom to understand and respond to a wide range of changing contexts that shape empowerment
practice.
17. _____ Select and apply leadership skills for anticipating and influencing shifting contexts of practice across
systems.
18. _____ Actively engage in the supervision process.
2.1.10(a)-(d)- Engage, assess, intervene, and evaluate with individuals, families, groups,
organizations, and communities.
2.1.10(a)- Engagement
19. _____ Engage diverse groups in empowerment practice across an array of systems and levels of
intervention.
2.1.10(b)- Assessment
20. _____ Adapt, modify, and use empowerment practice assessment tools.
2.1.10(c)- Intervention
21. _____ Employ integrated empowerment practice theories and methods for intervening across systems.
2.1.10(d)- Evaluation
22. _____ Apply research skills to evaluating empowerment practice interventions.
23. _____ Identify and use evaluation tools for empowerment practice.
24._____ Communicate and disseminate evaluation results appropriate to the intended audience.
25._____ Work collaboratively with evaluators/researchers to assess intervention effectiveness.
Section III
OVERALL PERFORMANCE Taking everything into consideration, please rate the student's overall performance during the term using one
of the numbers on the following scale:
Does not meet:
Student has not met the
expectations for field.
Limited:
Shows some evidence of
succeeding in practice. Has
not fully met the
expectations for field.
Competent:
Shows the level of
understanding and skills
expected for advanced/MSW
practitioners. Has met the
expectations for field.
Excels:
Shows an outstanding level
of understanding and skills
for advanced/MSW
practitioners. Has exceeded
expectations for field.
1
2
3
4
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26. _____ Overall performance rating.
Please explain your rating:
SUMMARY OF STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES: Comment as to the student's major strengths and area(s) needing improvement. Areas of strengths:
Areas needing improvement:
The student must sign this evaluation. The student's signature indicates that the student has read the evaluation. Any discrepancies in the student's and field instructor's perception of the student's performance should be noted below. Field Instructor Date Student Date Student's comments: On behalf of the Department of Social Work, we thank you for your work with our students. Advanced Empowerment Practice Behaviors Evaluation Copyright © 2010 Winthrop Social Work
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