Summary Data of Assessment Measures
Fall 2013
Field
Instructors'
Assessment
Competencies
Practice Behaviors
Comp.
1. Students can identify as a
professional
social worker and conduct
himself/herself
2.94
accordingly.
1. Advocate for client access to services
2. Personal reflections & self-correction
for professional development
3. Attend to professional roles and boundaries
4. Demonstrate professional demeanor
5. Engage in career-long learning
6. Use supervision and consultation
2. Student can apply social work ethical principles to guide
his or her professional
practice.
7. Recognize and manage personal values
to guide practice
8. Make ethical decisions by applying NASW
Code of Ethics and, as applicable, IFSW/IASSW
ethical principles
9. Tolerate ambiguity in resolving ethical
dilemmas
10. Apply strategies of ethical reasoning to arrive
at principled decisions
Prac. Behv.
Students'
Self
Assessment
Comp.
Prac. Behv.
3.05
3.0
2.92
3.0
3.06
3.06
2.94
3.13
2.91
3.08
3.08
2.69
2.83
2.94
3.0
2.94
3.0
3.0
3.0
2.94
2.92
2.81
2.92
3. Student applies critical thinking to inform and
communicate
professional judgments.
11. Draw on multiple sources of
knowledge
12. Analyze models of assessment, prevention,
intervention, and evaluation
2.94
2.92
2.81
2.69
2.88
2.69
Field
Instructors'
Assessment
Competencies
Practice Behaviors
Comp.
13. Demonstrate effective oral and written
communication
4. Student engages diversity and difference in practice.
14. Recognize how a culture's structure and values
may impact privilege and power
15. Gain self-awareness to eliminate the influence
of personal biases and values in working with
diverse groups
16. Recognize and communicate understanding
of the importance of difference in shaping
life experience
17. View selves as learners and engage those
with whom they work as informants
Prac. Behv.
Students'
Self
Assessment
Comp.
2.94
3.0
Prac. Behv.
2.92
2.92
2.94
2.92
2.94
2.92
3.06
2.92
3.0
2.85
5. Student advances human rights and social and economic
justice.
2.69
18. Understand the forms and mechanisms of
oppression and discrimination
19. Advocate for human rights and social and
economic justice
20. Engage in practices that advance social and
economic justice
2.69
2.94
3.0
2.75
2.77
2.75
2.85
6. Student engages in research-informed practice
and
practice-informed research
21. Use practice experiences to inform
scientific inquiry
22. Use research evidence to inform practice
2.75
3.0
2.75
2.88
2.92
2.92
Field
Instructors'
Assessment
Competencies
Practice Behaviors
Comp. Prac. Behv.
Students'
Self
Assessment
Comp.
Prac. Behv.
7. Student applies knowledge of human behavior and
the social environment.
23. Utilize conceptual frameworks to guide the
processes of assessment, intervention, and
Evaluation
24. Critique and apply knowledge to understand
person and environment
3.06
3.08
3.0
2.83
3.0
2.92
8. Student engages in policy practice to advance well-being
and deliver effective social work services.
25. Analyze, formulate, and advocate for policies
that advance social well-being
26. Collaborate with colleagues and clients for
effective policy action
2.75
9. Student responds to contexts that shape practice.
27. Discover, appraise, and attend to changing
contexts to provide relevant services
28. Provide leadership in promoting changes in
service delivery and practice to improve
service quality
2.81
2.67
2.63
2.5
2.75
2.75
2.91
2.81
2.83
2.63
2.82
10. Student engages, assesses, intervenes and evaluates
with individuals, families, groups, organizations and
communities.
3.0
29. Substantively and affectively prepare for
action at all levels of practice
30. Use empathy and other interpersonal skills
2.95
3.0
3.13
2.91
3.08
Competencies
Practice Behaviors
Field
Instructors'
Assessment
Comp. Prac. Behv.
31. Develop a mutually agreed-on focus and
desired outcomes
32. Collect, organize, and interpret client data
33. Assess client strengths and limitations
34. Develop mutually agreed-on intervention
goals and objectives
35. Select appropriate intervention strategies
36. Initiate actions to achieve organizational goals
37. Implement prevention intervention that
enhances client capacities
38. Help clients resolve problems
39. Negotiate, mediate, and advocate for clients
40. Facilitate transitions and endings
41. Critically analyze, monitor, and evaluate
intervention
Students' Self
Assessment
Comp.
Prac. Behv.
3.06
3.13
3.06
2.92
2.92
3.0
3.0
2.94
2.88
3.0
2.83
2.83
2.88
3.06
2.94
2.88
3.0
3.08
2.92
2.92
3.0
2.91