Evaluation of a Counselor Education Program

Evaluation of a Counselor Education Program

Professionals who work within counselor education programs place high value on obtaining and maintaining CACREP accreditation. If you become a faculty member in a CACREP-accredited program, it will be your responsibility to ensure that your courses adhere to the latest standards released by the Council. If you are an administrator in a CACREP accredited program, then you will be responsible for ensuring that all facets of the program are aligned with the standards. As a counselor educator, you may also choose to be trained as a CACREP site team member and conduct evaluations of other counseling programs. Regardless of how you become involved in the process, it is important for you to be familiar with how the standards and how counseling programs meet them. Whether in a faculty, administration, or team member role, you will use your knowledge and skills to evaluate counselor education programs’ adherence to the standards.
To prepare for this assignment:

•Review the article, “Program Evaluation: The Accountability Bridge Model for Counselors,” for a conceptual framework of how program evaluation can be conducted.
•Review the article, “Program Evaluation: A Potential Area of Expertise for Counselors,” for clarification about how program evaluation fits within your practice as a counselor educator.
•Review the articles, “Investigation of the Effectiveness of a School-Based Suicide Education Program Using Three Methodological Approaches,” “Does Marriage and Relationship Education Work? A Meta-Analytic Study,” and “Use of Focus Groups as a Tool for Evaluating Programs for Children and Families.” Use these examples of program evaluation to inform your decisions about the presented case study.
•Review the provided Case Study of a CACREP accreditation process of a counselor education program and identify which issues meet CACREP standards and which do not.
•Then consider what assessment strategies you might use to explore, verify, or refute the issues you identified and think about what recommendations you would make for the issues you identified.
•Consider what strategy you might use to deliver that information to the program leader and faculty.
The assignment: (4–6 pages)

•Describe specific examples from the Case Study of three issues that meet CACREP standards and three issues that do not meet CACREP standards.
•Explain what assessment strategies you might use to explore, verify, or refute the issues that you have identified.
•Describe one recommendation you might make to the program leader for each of the issues that do not meet CACREP standards.
•Explain what strategy you might use to deliver the information to the program leader and the faculty.

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