VISTAS Online is an innovative publication produced for ACA by Dr. Garry R. Walz and Dr. Jeanne C. Bleuer of Counseling Outfitters, LLC. Its purpose is to provide a means of capturing the ideas, information and experiences generated by the annual ACA Conference and selected ACA Division Conferences. Papers on a program or practice that has been validated through research or experience may also be submitted. This digital collection of peer-reviewed articles is authored by counselors, for counselors. VISTAS Online contains the full text of over 900 proprietary counseling articles published from 2004 to 2017.
2016
Assessment of Student Dispositions: The Development and Psychometric Properties of the Professional Disposition Competence Assessment (PDCA)
Curtis M. Garner, Brenda J. Freeman, and Lindsay Lee
2016
The purpose of this study was to investigate the development and psychometric properties of the Professional Disposition Competence Assessment (PDCA), a rubric based on the inclusion approach and designed to aid counselor educators in admissions processes, conducting mid-program progress reviews, and monitoring student dispositions throughout the academic program. The authors describe the development, piloting, and revision of the PDCA and report on the establishment of content validity, inter-rater reliability between assessors, and construct validity.
Keywords: gatekeeping, student dispositions, rubric, PDCA, counselors-intraining