Assessing Progress Toward Accreditation Related Objectives: Evidence Regarding the Use of Self-Efficacy as an Outcome in the Advanced Concentration Research Curriculum

Gary Holden; Kathleen Barker; Gary Rosenberg; Patrick Onghena

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Assessing Progress Toward Accreditation Related Objectives: Evidence Regarding the Use of Self-Efficacy as an Outcome in the Advanced Concentration Research Curriculum

Gary Holden, Kathleen Barker, Gary Rosenberg, Patrick Onghena

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Objective: Assessing the achievement of social work educational outcomes is a requirement of the Council on Social Work Education's Educational Policy and Standards (EPAS). The Evaluation Self-Efficacy Scale (ESE) was created to assess student progress in advanced concentration courses focused on evaluation and thereby provide data regarding attainment of EPAS-related objectives. Method: This social cognitive theory—derived scale was pretested, revised, and then used with a final sample of 85 master's-level students in a single-group, pretest-posttest-retrospective pretest study. Results: Cronbach alphas for the ESE were0.94 or greater. Evidence of both content and construct validity was obtained. Conclusion: The results provide evidence that supports the psychometric properties of data obtained using the ESE.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	456-465
Number of pages	10
Journal	Research on Social Work Practice
Volume	17
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1177/1049731506297474
State	Published - Jul 2007

Keywords

CSWE
EPAS
accreditation
educational outcomes
evaluation
outcome measures
self-efficacy
social cognitive theory
social work education

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