An Instrument for Assessing Student Confidence in Professional Materials and Skills

Abstract

This is an assessment instrument that I developed in Qualtrics. I administered it once as part of a pre-post course assessment on student development of and/or confidence in their professional materials and skills. In that pilot administration, almost all the students completed the pretest, but almost none completed the posttest. I anticipate working...

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Details

Subject Area(s):

Other

Resource Type(s):

Assessment

Class Level(s):

College 300

Class Size(s):

Any

Usage Notes

Existing career efficacy scales (Ali, McWhirter, and Chronister, 2005; McWhirter and Metheny 2009) include broad and more abstract metrics for efficacy such as “I will be successful in my chosen career” or “The future looks bright for me”. I was interested in assessing immediate skills and materials within direct control of the students and created a...

Learning Goals and Assessments

Learning Goal(s):

1. gather pre and post proseminar data on student development and/or confidence in their professional materials and skills

Goal Assessment(s):

1. instrument and protocol provides data to assess changes