Discusses the National Board for Certified Counselors' (NBCC) National Counselor Examination (NCE) which has become important in the counseling profession because of its critical role in NBCC's counselor certification process. Presents data from six previously administered minimum-criterion score forms of the NCE and discusses implications of…

This digest discusses several major issues in the area of assessment of counselor performance, looking at the need for counselor assessment, areas of assessment in counselor performance, evaluation methods, evaluators, and the time of assessment. Several recommendations are made for more effective assessment of counselor performance. (NB)

This study was conducted on the Counselor Evaluation Rating Scale (CERS). Ratings on 404 students from approximately 35 different supervisors were factor-analyzed using an oblique solution with rotation to simple loadings. It was concluded that the CERS has generally achieved the purposes intended by its authors. (Author)

Assessment of counselor performance is directly linked to assessment of counseling outcomes because counseling outcome is contingent upon counselor performance. Thus, the assessment of counseling outcome literature is the general context for the more specific literature on assessment of counselor performance. Historically, counselor performance…