North Carolina State University
2009-2010 Graduating Senior Survey:
Department of Social Work
INSTRUCTIONS:
The Department of Social Work is very interested in your opinions, and believes that as a graduating senior you can provide it with useful information to help evaluate and improve its 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 hit the SUBMIT button at the end of the form to submit your answers.
Content and Practice Areas
We are interested in knowing the extent to which you feel that the program prepared you to meet the core competencies for undergraduate social workers that are established by our national accrediting organization (the Council on Social Work Education).
| Please rate your preparation by the Social Work Department in each of the following areas: | Excellent | Good | Fair | Poor |
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| 1. Identifying as a professional social worker and conducting myself accordingly | ||||
| 2. Applying social work ethical principles to guide professional practice | ||||
| 3. Applying critical thinking to inform and communicate professional judgments | ||||
| 4. Engaging diversity and difference in practice | ||||
| 5. Advancing human rights and social and economic justice | ||||
| 6. Engaging in research-informed practice and practice- informed research | ||||
| 7. Applying knowledge of human behavior and the social environment | ||||
| 8. Engaging in policy practice to advance social and economic well-being and to deliver effective social work services | ||||
| 9. Responding to the contexts (e.g., organizational, community, societal) that shape practice | ||||
| 10. Engaging with individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities to develop a mutually agreed-on plan of work and desired outcomes | ||||
| 11. Assessing client data, strengths and limitations to develop mutually agreed-on intervention goals and objectives | ||||
| 12. Intervening to achieve goals; implementing interventions; helping clients resolve problems; negotiating, mediating, and advocating for clients; and facilitating transitions and endings | ||||
| 13. Analyzing, monitoring, and evaluating interventions. |
Social Work Department Areas
| Strongly agree |
Agree | Disagree | Strongly disagree |
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| 14. Overall, the social work curriculum has prepared me for a career in social work. | ||||
| 15. Based on what I have learned in the social work department, I am prepared for graduate education. | ||||
| 16. Overall, the social work department offered a supportive and challenging learning milieu for me to develop the knowledge, skills, and values for socially responsible practice. |
| Looking back on my years at North Carolina State University, I found the following to be helpful. | Strongly agree |
Agree | Disagree | Strongly disagree |
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| 17. Social Work Department Head | ||||
| 18. Social Work Associate Department Head | ||||
| 19. BSW Field Director | ||||
| 20. Social Work Full-time Faculty | ||||
| 21. Social Work Part-time Faculty | ||||
| 22. Social Work Department Curriculum | ||||
| 23. Social Work Electives | ||||
| 24. Social Work Support Staff | ||||
| 25. Social Work Student Associations |
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Thank you for your time and assistance!
