Students develop effective psychotherapy and assessment skills.
Objective
Psychotherapy Skills
Students demonstrate competency in effective psychotherapy skills.
Indicator
Psychotherapy Skills Rubric
MA Clinical faculty will assess student performance with respect to psychotherapy skills on the comprehensive exams.
Criterion
Psychotherapy Evaluation
On the Comprehensive Examination there is a "Psychotherapy Skills" portion. Criterion is that 100% of the students taking that section of the exam score at least a 75% which is "Acceptable."
Finding
Psychotherapy Skills
MA Clinical faculty rated each student (100%) having taken the portion of the comprehensive exam under the title "Psychotherapy Skills" at an acceptable level. Range of means for students was 75.0 to 98.0 with an overall mean of 88.75. Thus, criterion was met. As in previous semesters, diagnosis appeared to be a weaker area than others.
Action
Psychotherapy Skills
Criterion was met. We will, though, as a department faculty assess the courses in which students hone their psychotherapy skills to strive for ever higher levels of performance. We will also meet with the students to stress the importance of these skills and with the supervisors to guarantee that these skills are being developed in each student.
Additionally, we still are a little leery of the ability of out students to effectively benefit from the DSM axes system and we will further stress diagnostic criteria and diagnosis using that system.
Goal
Assessment Skills
Students will be proficient in personality and educational assessment.
Objective
Assessment
Students demonstrate expertise to administer, score, and interpret tests of intelligence for children and adults.
Indicator
Assessment Capstone Rubric
Students demonstrate competency to administer, score, and interpret Wechsler scales for children and adults.
Criterion
Assessment
100% of students will score at least 80% (acceptable) on the capstone exercise.
Finding
Assessment
MA Clinical faculty rated each student (100%) having taken the portion of the comprehensive exam under the title "Psychotherapy Skills" at an acceptable level. Range of means for each student was 78.0 to 98.0 with an overall mean of 90.44.
At least one student did not score 80%; however, the overall mean was above 80%.
Action
Assessment
Capstone course results showed that most students attained an acceptable level of performance on the Assessment Portion of the course. Scores ranged from 78.0 to 98.0 with a mean of 89.62. MA Clinical faculty rated most students taking the Assessment portion of the comprehensive exam at an acceptable level. Only one student was below the 80% criterion.
Capstone results for the Case Studies portion of the course showed that most students having taken the course/examination attained acceptable levels of performance on the Case Study Portion. Scores ranged from 75 to 98 with a mean of 88.75. Thus, MA Clinical faculty rated the student taking the Assessment portion of the comprehensive exam at an acceptable level. There was one student who did not obtain the 80% criterion
Overall, the average score for the Capstone Assessment was 89.62 with a range of 79.5 to 97.5.
We are pleased that we met criterion but a little concerned that our numbers dipped from the previous year. One reason is that we had a new, adjunct, faculty who was only working part time, teaching the course this past year. We since have created a new position and hired the instructor for the capstone course at the level of Clinical Assistant Professor.