The Validity and Reliability of Counseling Internship Supervision Training Module among Academic Supervisors and Site Supervisors

Abstract

This study aims to develop theCounseling Internship Supervision Training Module that can benefit the academic supervisors at public universities. This training module is one of the efforts in increasing academic supervisors’ efficacy in the theoretical and skill aspects in counseling supervision. This module is developed based on a systematic supervision model namely theSystem Approach to Supervision (SAS) by Holloway (1995). This module contains 5 stages of supervision and they comprise of 16 activities. Session 1: Introduction, Session 2: Pre-supervision Skills, Session 3: Supervision Process, Session 4: Supervision Evaluationand Session 5: Post-Supervision Skills and Actions. This study is carried out to test the validity and reliability of theCounseling Internship Supervision Training Module. A total of 10 assessors for the module validity comprises of academic supervisors at the public universities such as UPSI, UM, UPM and UKM who are also lecturers in the counseling field. Meanwhile to measure the module’s reliability, a total of 30 school counselors inBatang Padang were involved as the respondents of the study. The finding with regard to the module’s validity shows that the minimum percentage value is 82 percent for the statement “The module content can be implemented following the steps determined”and the statement “the module content can increase the supervisor’s character more effectively”. The maximum percentage is 87 percent for the statement “this module content can fulfill the target population”. Meanwhile, for the reliability coefficient finding, the alphaCronbachCounseling Internship Supervision Training Module on the 30 school counselors in the district ofBatang Padang is high, which is 0.984. This study implication shows that this module can serve as the teaching module to supervisors to train them to become effective supervisors.