School counselors should meet each of the nine numbered competencies and have the specific skills listed under each competency. School counselors are skilled in choosing assessment strategies. They can describe the nature and use of different types of formal and informal assessments, including questionnaires, checklists, interviews, inventories, tests, observations, surveys, and performance assessments, and work with individuals skilled in clinical assessment. They can specify the types of information most readily obtained from different assessment approaches. They are familiar with resources for critically evaluating each type of assessment and can use them in choosing appropriate assessment strategies.
School counselors can identify, access, and evaluate the most commonly used assessment instruments.
They know which assessment instruments are most commonly used in school settings to assess intelligence, aptitude, achievement, personality, work values, and interests, including computer-assisted versions and other alternate formats. They know the dimensions along which assessment instruments should be evaluated, including purpose, validity, utility, norms, reliability and measurement error, score reporting method, and consequences of use. They can obtain and evaluate information about the quality of those assessment instruments. School counselors are skilled in the techniques of administration and methods of scoring assessment instruments. They can implement appropriate administration procedures, including administration using computers.