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Chapter 8

Evaluation of Student Learning

Marion BogoEvaluation of Learning, Marion Bogo takes an in depth look at the meaning of competence and key issues related to assessing student competence in the field. Evaluation of student performance is crucial for providing feedback that promotes learning and determining student competence for practice. As well, aggregate data from field evaluations is used as program outcome data indicating the degree to which programs are meeting their goals and objectives.

In chapter 8, Evaluation of Student Learning, Marion Bogo discusses the importance of understanding competence as a concept and the issues related to its assessment in the field. Evaluation of student performance is crucial for providing feedback that promotes learning and assessment of student competence for practice. Aggregate data from field evaluations can be used as outcome data indicating the degree to which students meet competencies and how the program is meeting its mission and goals. Bogo expands the notion of a collaborative partnership by involving experienced field instructors, students, liaisons, and practice faculty in building a school’s competency model. Field directors are charged with training field instructors in understanding how generic competencies and practice behaviors fit with their practice settings, and then understanding how to assess what students are able to do.

In preparing field instructors to provide feedback and summative evaluation to students, field directors must attend to the meaning of each competency and the process of evaluation. The author describes and provides examples of challenges related to student evaluation. Marion Bogo’s ground-breaking contribution to articulating and assessing competence in social work students is reflected in this chapter.

Author

MARION BOGO, MSW, Adv. Dip. SW

Links

The Campbell Collaboration. (n.d.). Home page. Retrieved from http://www.campbellcollaboration.org/

Clark, S. (2003). The California collaboration: A competency-based child welfare curriculum project for master's social workers. Journal of Human Behavior in the Social Environment, 7(1/2), 135–157.   See http://www.csulb.edu/projects/ccwrl/Competencies_module.pdf

Luciana, J. (2011). Assessment rubric for field instructor evaluation. Department of Social Work, Salve Regina University, Newport, RI. Retrieved from http://www.salve.edu/undergraduate/social-work

Social Work Education Assessment Project. (n.d). Home page. Retrieved from https://www.sweapinstruments.org

University of Toronto. (n.d.). Home page. Retrieved from http://research.socialwork.utoronto.ca/hubpage/resources-2
 

 

 

 

 

Note: Cover design and material from Social Work Field Directors: Foundations for Excellence
by C.A. Hunter, J. K. Moen, and M. S. Raskin (Eds.), (2014) Chicago: Lyceum.
Copyright 2014 by Lyceum Books, Inc. Reprinted with permission.