Evaluation of Student Learning Outcomesscwk 622/632

Evaluation of Student Learning OutcomesSCWK 622/632

MSW Advanced Empowerment Practice Behaviors

Student:______Agency Field Instructor: ______

Date: ______Agency: ______

Section ILIST THE STUDENT’S LEARNING EXPERIENCES AND ASSIGNMENTS

Section IICORE COMPETENCIES

Please use the following scale to rate each Core Competency. Refer to the Learning ContractforCompetencyDefinitions. Put the number in the blank provided that best represents your assessment of the student’s demonstrated competency.
Not applicable:
Has not had the opportunity to demonstrate competence in this area / Does not meet:
Student does not meet agency and professional expectations / Limited:
Demonstrates a limited understanding of the skill and shows some ability to implement in practice, but the student has not fully met the expectation in this area / Competent:
Demonstrates a sufficient understanding of the skill, and is able to implement in practice most of the time; Meets agency and professional expectations / Excels:
Demonstrates an outstandingability to consistently and effectively implement the skill in practice; Exceeds agency and professional expectations
0 / 1 / 2 / 3 / 4

2.1.1- Identify as a professional social worker and conduct oneself accordingly.

1. _____ Identify opportunities for advanced social work involvement in empowerment-based practice across systems.

2. _____ Work collaboratively across disciplines to provide empowerment practice services while maintaining one’s professional identity and role responsibilities.

2.1.2- Apply social work ethical principles to guide professional practice.

3. _____ Incorporateempowerment perspectives—including attention to personal, structural, and societal systems of power—in applying ethical decision-making skills.

4. _____ Integrate the values and principles of ethical social work practice, including the ability to independently assess and resolve ethical dilemmas consistent with the NASW Code of Ethics.

2.1.3- Apply critical thinking to inform and communicate professional judgments.

5. _____ Analyze and select models of assessment, prevention, intervention, and evaluation relative to an empowerment practice perspective.

6. _____ Communicate effectively with diverse populations and with multi- or interdisciplinary systems.

2.1.4- Engage diversity and difference in practice.

7. _____ Select and apply strategies that promote empowerment in addressing inequalities shaped by cultural structures, institutional systems, and societal values.

8. _____ Analyze and compare different social constructions of privilege, oppression, and empowerment and their implications.

2.1.5- Advance human rights and social and economic justice.

9. _____ Recognize, analyze, and address the interconnections of oppression and discrimination and use social change and leadership skills to promote human and civil rights.

10. _____ Select and apply integrated, empowerment practice approaches to service delivery that are equitable and respectful of human rights and social and economic justice.

2.1.6- Engage in research-informed practice and practice-informed research.

11. _____ Select and apply evidence-based theories and methods consistent with empowerment practice.

12. _____ Work collaboratively with community-based systems to assess intervention effectiveness.

2.1.7- Apply knowledge of human behavior and the social environment.

13. _____ Demonstrate advanced knowledge of theories of human behavior and the social environment across a range of social systems (individuals and families, groups, organizations and communities).

14. _____ Select and apply empowerment practice strategies for assisting clients in responding to human and social problems.

2.1.8- Engage in policy practice to advance social and economic well-being and to deliver effective social work services.

15. _____ Apply empowerment-based policy practice skills across systems to influence and facilitate effective social services that promote human rights and advance social and economic justice.

2.1.9- Respond to contexts that shape practice.

16. _____ Distinguish, appraise, and integrate multiple sources of knowledge, empirical evidence, and practice wisdom to understand and respond to a wide range of changing contexts that shape empowerment practice.

17. _____ Select and apply leadership skills for anticipating and influencing shifting contexts of practice across systems.

18. _____ Actively engage in the supervision process.

2.1.10(a)-(d)- Engage, assess, intervene, and evaluate with individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities.

2.1.10(a)- Engagement

19. _____ Engage diverse groups in empowerment practice across an array of systems and levels of intervention.

2.1.10(b)- Assessment

20. _____ Adapt, modify, and use empowerment practice assessment tools.

2.1.10(c)- Intervention

21. _____ Employ integrated empowerment practice theories and methods for intervening across systems.

2.1.10(d)- Evaluation

22. _____ Apply research skills to evaluating empowerment practice interventions.

23. _____ Identify and use evaluation tools for empowermentpractice.

24._____ Communicate and disseminate evaluation results appropriate to the intended audience.

25._____ Work collaboratively with evaluators/researchers to assess intervention effectiveness.

Section IIIOVERALL PERFORMANCE

Taking everything into consideration, please rate the student's overall performance during the term using one of the numbers on the following scale:
Does not meet:
Student has not met the expectations for field. / Limited:
Shows some evidence of succeeding in practice. Has not fully met the expectations for field. / Competent:
Shows the level of understanding and skills expected for advanced/MSW practitioners. Has met the expectations for field. / Excels:
Shows an outstanding level of understanding and skills for advanced/MSW practitioners. Has exceeded expectations for field.
1 / 2 / 3 / 4

26. _____ Overall performance rating.

Please explain your rating.

SUMMARY OF STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES: Comment as to the student's major strengths and area(s) needing improvement.

Areas of strengths:

Areas needing improvement:

The student must sign this evaluation. The student's signature indicates that the student has read the evaluation. Any discrepancies in the student's and field instructor's perception of the student's performance should be noted below.

Field Instructor / Date
Student / Date

Student's comments:

On behalf of the Department of Social Work, we thank you for your work with our students.