Student Learning Outcomes: Skills Dimension

 

GOAL:  MHS graduates will demonstrate master’s level skills in professional writing, direct service provision, and program planning/management/evaluation.

Objectives:

I.  Students will be able to

• Demonstrate foundation-level academic writing skills by writing clearly organized, grammatical, short academic essays  following APA style guidelines for abstracts, citations and reference lists.

II. Students will be able to

• Demonstrate at least 10 attending skills.

• Demonstrate an understanding of the “helping” relationship process (beginning, middle, ending) by describing it accurately in a written analysis of a personal helping project.

• Formulate goals and objectives relevant to program conceptualization/identification.

• Demonstrate the qualities of an effective helper in order to order to understand the client’s worldview.

• Demonstrate an understanding of various theoretical frameworks related to the individual helping relationship.

III. Students will be able to

• use social research concepts and terminology in class discussions and written papers.

• demonstrate knowledge of four different needs assessment data collection methods.

• demonstrate knowledge of ethical issues in social science research

• apply two needs assessment data collection methods.

• demonstrate knowledge of the different sampling procedures.

• use basic concepts in questionnaire construction to design an instrument appropriate for needs assessment research.

• write a proposal for a needs assessment which will include a problem statement, research questions, and methodology.

IV.  Students will be able to

• manage raw data and conduct data analysis in statistical software package

• identify the steps and components involved in conducting and reporting a needs assessment.

• write a needs assessment report which involves analyzing, presenting and interpreting data, and making recommendations based on the findings.

• formulate an action plan for project development and management with the following components

• program goals

• program objectives

• planning tools, including a logic model

• program description

• program resources and budget

• program time frame

• program monitoring and evaluation measures.

• implement a social project pilot.

• develop and employ measures for project monitoring and evaluation.

•  demonstrate with proficiency writing skills and the APA format.

V. Students will be able to

•  describe evaluation methodology based on basic evaluation research theory.

• collect quantitative and qualitative data to evaluate the change project.

• analyze, interpret and present the evaluation data collected.

• describe the components of a funding proposal.