Date of Graduation
Spring 2011
Degree
Master of Science in Counseling
Department
Counseling, Leadership, and Special Education
Committee Chair
Jeffrey Cornelius-White
Abstract
The Counselor-Trainee Progress Assessment (CTPA) is a rating instrument used by faculty to observe and evaluate the counseling skills of Master's degree students in the Counseling program at Missouri State University. This project involved an exploratory factor analysis and examination of internal consistency to refine and validate this instrument and underscore and improve the value of its feedback to trainees. The project examined how the CTPA's structure correlates with demographic data of trainees to learn how certain characteristics related to emergent factors within the CTPA. The CTPA was found to have a stable three factor structure and displayed high internal consistency.
Keywords
counselor education, development, supervision, assessment, counselor-training progress assessment
Subject Categories
Counseling
Copyright
© Josh Tyler Smith
Recommended Citation
Smith, Josh Tyler, "An Inquiry Into the Factor Structure and Internal Consistency of the Counselor-Trainee Process Assessment" (2011). MSU Graduate Theses. 2045.
https://bearworks.missouristate.edu/theses/2045
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