Students' Judgments of Counseling

A FACULTY counseling program might well include an attempt at evaluation. Admittedly evaluation is exceedingly difficult. Nevertheless, a practical approach can be made by the use of a simple questionnaire directed to those most intimately concerned with the counseling program-those being counseled. By securing students' reactions to a limited number of questions, it is possible to secure an over-all picture of the opinions regarding the effectiveness of the counseling program. Tabulating the results for individual counselors will enable each counselor to see how his counselees respond and to compare his results with those of other counselors. Annually using the same questionnaire will indicate changes in students' opinions of the counseling program as a whole, and of the work of individual counselors. This type of evaluating the faculty counseling program in the College of Science, Literature, and the Arts of the University of Minnesota has been used for three years. Data accumulated to date are sufficient to indicate the usefulness of this information. So far as the writers are aware, this type of evaluation has received little attention. The questionnaire is a one-page mimeographed sheet, entitled Student Opinions Concerning Value of Faculty Counselors.' The name of the student and the name of his faculty counselor are typed on the blank before it is mailed. The general directions are as follows

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• A Critical Review of Techniques for Evaluating Guidance

  Open Access•Robert M W Travers•Educational and Psychological…•1949

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