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The student’s faculty group supervisor and the individual site supervisor have weekly opportunities to provide the student with formative evaluation. The evaluative work in these settings is the core of the assessment of student clinical competence and professional identity, and this ongoing and regular work is conducted in the context of the shared evaluative understandings described in the Counselor Assessment Scale and the Practicum and Internship Performance Evaluation Forms.
The Counselor Assessment Scale (pdf) is used by the faculty as a summary assessment instrument of performance in the clinical setting.
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Counselor education programs have an ethical and legal obligation to assess student competency to practice, and to remediate or sanction impaired student counselors. The ACA Code of Ethics mandates that counselor educators and supervisors monitor student progress in the areas of both professional and personal development. CACREPstandards state that it is the responsibility of faculty to counsel out students who are inappropriate for the profession. The Student Competency to Practice (pdf) policy details how the program fulfills this responsibility.
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Competencies that are anticipated to be met in courses are indicated as follows. If a competency is not mastered in the time frame of that course, it is the student’s responsibility to work with the faculty to create and follow through on a plan to expeditiously complete the mastery requirement.
Following the successful completion of all competencies in final semester, students will be approved for Completion of the Program and Graduation and will receive a letter confirming their approval for Graduation.
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