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Marson, Stephen M.; DeAngelis, Donna; Mittal, Nisha – Research on Social Work Practice, 2010
Objectives: The purpose of this article is to create transparency for the psychometric methods employed for the development of the Association of Social Work Boards' (ASWB) exams. Results: The article includes an assessment of the macro (political) and micro (statistical) environments of testing social work competence. The seven-step process used…
Descriptors: Content Validity, Test Validity, Psychometrics, Social Work
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Ancis, Julie R.; Szymanski, Dawn M.; Ladany, Nicholas – Counseling Psychologist, 2008
This article describes the development and psychometric evaluation of the Counseling Women Competencies Scale (CWCS). The CWCS is designed to assess clinicians' self-perceived competencies with regard to therapeutic practice with diverse female clients. Through an extensive review of the literature on counseling women and expert review by 32…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Females, Content Validity, Self Concept
Lang, W. Steve; Wilkerson, Judy R. – Online Submission, 2008
The National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE, 2002) requires teacher education units to develop assessment systems and evaluate both the success of candidates and unit operations. Because of a stated, but misguided, fear of statistics, NCATE fails to use accepted terminology to assure the quality of institutional evaluative…
Descriptors: State Standards, Validity, Resource Materials, Reliability