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Date of Graduation
Summer 2013
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Educational Specialist (EdS)
Department
Department of Graduate Psychology
Advisor(s)
Tammy D. Gilligan
Patricia Warner
Ashton Trice
Abstract
School psychology training programs are under increased pressure to train students in a way that emphasizes cultural competence. However, there is not currently an accepted instrument that can measure the cultural competence of students specific to the discipline of school psychology. The current study proposes and explores several adaptions of a proposed instrument to measure cultural competence in school psychology. Adaptions were selected to address problems observed in collecting similar data in a school psychology program. A first study was unsuccessful due to sampling issues; however, a second study was more successful. A sample was selected to exaggerate training differences that included undergraduate students, school psychology graduate students, and practicing school psychologists. Results suggested that a new set of questions combined with a scenario procedure was very successful at measuring different levels of training in cultural competence. It is recommended that these results be used to develop an instrument that can be used in all school psychology training programs.
Recommended Citation
Curtis, Nicholas Anthony, "The initial development of a measure of cultural competence in school psychology: The Madison Assessment of Cultural Competence in School Psychology (MACCS)" (2013). Educational Specialist, 2009-2019. 46.
https://commons.lib.jmu.edu/edspec201019/46
