Assessment for Counselors in School & Mental Health Counseling

Catalog description

This course seeks to help students understand the assessment process including the theoretical and historical basis as well as legal and ethical concerns. Students will develop knowledge of concepts of measurement including descriptive statistics, central tendency, norms, reliability, validity, etc. This course will also review assessment as it relates to educational law, entitlement decisions, and high stakes accountability, in addition to teaching students how to implement assessment techniques through observation, interview and ecological and environmental methods. Prerequisite: Enrollment in the Executive Program in School and Mental Health Counseling.