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Ch. 5- Assessment and Career Planning
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Ch. 5- Assessment and Career PlanningAdvantages of Internet Delivery - ANS--Can be taken from anywhere 24/7
-Immediate scoring and feedback
-Standard interpretation, though customized
-Capability to share report with others electronically
Assessment - ANS-the use of any formal or informal technique to collect data about a
client.
It is a tool of the trait-and-factor approach, which had its beginning with the three-step
career choice process introduced by Frank Parsons.
Assessment and the Career Planning Process
STEPS (7) - ANS-Step 1 - may use an instrument to measure career maturity, career
beliefs or decision-making style
Step 2 - may use inventories to measure interests, abilities, skills, work values, or
personality type
Step 3 - Score report from inventories given in Step 2 will suggest occupations.
Step 4 - Gather info about identified career alternatives; Assessment not likely to be
used.
Step 5 - Inventories of work-related values may be used to reduce number of options.
Step 6 - Tests that predict success in college or measure achievement in specific
subject matter may be used.
Step 7 - Instruments that measure work skills or personality type may be used.
Assessments:
Clients' Rights - ANS-Old model of the trait-and-factor approach (often called the
"test-'em and tell-'em" approach) should be replaced with a view of assessment that:
a) respects assessment is just one of the tools available to assist clients,
b) should be administered with the person's full understanding of its purpose,
, c) prepares the client, administers the instrument corrects,
d) treats the results in the confidential manner, and
e) interprets the results in a knowledgeable way
Assessments:
Counselor Responsibilities - ANS-Follow ethical guidelines provided by professional
associations
Possess knowledge of:
-basic principles of assessment
-details of specific instruments to be used
-how to prepare clients/students
-how to administer properly
-how to interpret properly
-follow through with clients appropriately after the assessment
Formal Assessment:
Characteristics - ANS-May be timed, standardized tests or non-timed, standardized
inventories.
Standardized way to administer and interpret the instrument
Known validity (instrument measures what it claims to measure)
Known reliability (results of a later administration will be highly similar to those of first
administration)
Test-retest reliability (defined as the correlation between two measurements obtained in
the same manner)
Fairness related to diversity (instrument adequately researched with kinds of individuals
who will later take the instrument)
Measures of comparison (compares the scores of one individual with those of others)
Informal Assessment:
Characteristics - ANS--Instruments not subjected to scientific study
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