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The Key Variables Of The Study Of Student Competency Proficiency Essay

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Procedure The key variables of the study, student competency proficiency, were based on ten core competencies of EPAS (CSWE, 2012). Total 19 competencies were included in the survey, using a six-point Likert scale. Students were required to rate their competency proficiency on the scale from 1 (very little know) to 6 (substantial amount know) on Survey Monkey. Three assessments used a uniform survey for three different times. Prior to the course, each student was required to complete the first assessment. At the end of the course, students were invited to complete two assessments, the post-test and the retrospect-test, which asked students to look back to the beginning of the course. Students were explained that their participation in the assessments were voluntary, which focuses on helping them assess their competencies from different time perspectives, as well as helping instructors improve the course. The leading instructor and the teaching assistant, who conducted the study, complied the rules of human subject protection approved by the University of South Carolina Institutional Review Board. All data were transformed from Survey Monkey platform to SPSS files. The teaching assistant cleaned the data sets, matched the data of pre-test, post-test, and retrospect-test using student IDs, and merged eligible data from six data sets of six classes into one data set. Totally 48 matched observations were used to analyze using paired t-test. Paired t-test were used to examine

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