Abstract
The School Counseling Program Component Scale (SCPCS) was developed to measure beliefs about program components of the American School Counselor Association (ASCA) National Model. In 2002, results from the SCPCS indicated that “using data” was ranked as less important than other program components. The current follow-up study was conducted in 2009. Results from this study indicated that the component subscales are consistent and reliable. Notable shifts were found in “use of data for program planning” and “use of data for accountability” subscales, suggesting that school counselors may have begun to prioritize the value of using data.
Highlights
To compare the component structure derived from the 2002 School Counseling Program Component Scale (SCPCS) data with the 2009 SCPCS data and the relationship of subscales to the instrument as a whole, a replication principal components analysis (PCA) was performed
A forced four-component PCA with a Promax rotation and Kaiser normalization revealed that 18 of the 19 SCPCS items loaded on the same factors in 2009 as in 2002
The exception was the item not retained in the PCA of the 2002 data (Item 19), which loaded on the Administrator Support component
Summary
Information about the participants and procedures in the 2002 study can be found by consulting the original manuscript (Hatch & Chen-Hayes, 2008). The participants and procedures below describe the current study, with data collected in 2009
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