North Carolina State University
2009 Baccalaureate Alumni Survey:
Department of Social Work
Instructions:
The Department of Social Work is very interested in your opinions, and believes that as an alumnus/alumna you can provide us with useful information to help us evaluate and improve our program. We appreciate you taking the time to answer these questions.To answer a question, click on the bubble for the answer you are choosing. Once you have answered all the questions, you must click on the SUBMIT button at the end of the form to submit your answers.
Part A: Professional Development
To what extent do you agree or disagree with the following statements about how well the Bachelor of Social Work (BSW) program contributed to specific aspects of your professional development? When making your assessments, please consider the contributions of your work in both the classroom and your field placement.
| Looking back on my years at North Carolina State University, the BSW program prepared me to: | Strongly Agree |
Agree | Disagree | Strongly Disagree |
Not applicable |
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| 1. Identify as a professional social worker and conduct myself accordingly. | |||||
| 2. Apply social work ethical principles to guide professional practice. | |||||
| 3. Make ethical decisions. | |||||
| 4. Recognize and manage personal values in a way that allows professional values to guide my practice. | |||||
| 5. Apply critical thinking to inform and communicate professional judgments. | |||||
| 6. Demonstrate effective oral and written communication in working with individuals, families, groups, organizations, communities, and colleagues. | |||||
| 7. Recognize the extent to which a culture's structure and values may oppress, marginalize, alienate, or create or enhance privilege and power. | |||||
| 8. Incorporate diversity, respect, and understanding of difference in my practice. | |||||
| Strongly Agree |
Agree | Disagree | Strongly Disagree |
Not applicable |
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| 9. Understand the forms and mechanisms of oppression. | |||||
| 10. Advocate for human rights and social and economic justice. | |||||
| 11. Engage in research-informed practice and practice-informed research. | |||||
| 12. Apply knowledge of human behavior and the social environment. | |||||
| 13. Use conceptual frameworks to guide the processes of assessment, intervention, and evaluation. | |||||
| 14. Engage in policy practice to advance social and economic well-being and to deliver effective social work services. | |||||
| 15. Collaborate with colleagues and clients for effective policy action. | |||||
| 16. Respond to contexts that shape practice. | |||||
| Strongly Agree |
Agree | Disagree | Strongly Disagree |
Not applicable |
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| 17. Provide leadership in promoting sustainable changes in service delivery and practice to improve the quality of social services. | |||||
| 18. Engage, assess, intervene, and evaluate with individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities using the generalist model. | |||||
| 19. Develop a mutually agreed-on focus of work and desired outcomes with clients. | |||||
| 20. Assess and build on client strengths and resiliency. | |||||
| 21. Develop mutually agreed-on intervention goals and objectives with clients. | |||||
| 22. Help clients resolve problems. | |||||
| 23. Critically analyze, monitor, and evaluate interventions with clients. |
Part B: Professional Activities and Credentials
| 24. In which of the following have you participated since completing your BSW degree? (Please mark all that apply) | |
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Part C: Employment
| 25. Since completion of your BSW degree, have you ever been employed as a social worker? | |
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| Yes | |
| No (mark your response then skip to question 34) | |
| 26. Please indicate the extent to which you agree or disagree with the following statements. | Strongly agree |
Agree | Disagree | Strongly disagree |
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| a. Classroom courses, as a whole, prepared me for my first social work position after receiving my BSW degree. | ||||
| b. Fieldwork courses, as a whole, prepared me for my first social work position after receiving my BSW degree. | ||||
| c. After completing my BSW degree and actively pursuing employment, I had no trouble finding a job for my level of experience. |
| 27. For how many years have you been employed as a social worker? | |
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| 28. Please indicate the type of setting of your first social work employment after you received your BSW degree: (choose only one) | |
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| 29. Please indicate which
of the following categories best describes your first social work
position: (choose only one) | |
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| 30. Are you still working in the same position, or have you switched to another social work position? | |
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| (mark your response then skip to question 34) | |
| (mark your response then skip to question 35) | |
| 31. Please indicate the type of setting of your current social work employment: (choose only one) | |
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| 32. Please indicate which of the following categories best describes your current social work position: (choose only one) | |
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Part D: Conclusions
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| 37. How interested are you in participating in the following Alumni Activities? | Very interested | Somewhat interested | Not at all interested |
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| a. Advisory board | |||
| b. Assisting in promoting class reunions or alumni events | |||
| c. Program Development activities | |||
| d. Professional Development activities | |||
| e. Identifying potential donors for the Department of Social Work | |||
| f. Contributing to the Department of Social Work Endowment Fund |
If you are interested in participating in alumni activities, please contact Dr. Tina Hancock, Department Head, at (919) 513-7958 or Tina_Hancock@ncsu.edu.
When you are satisfied with all your answers on this page, click on the Submit button.
| If you do not see a college/department survey or a "Thank You" message after clicking on the submit button, please go back and click on "Submit" again. If the problem persists, please contact us at (919) 515-7520 or email studentsurveys@ncsu.edu |