F. Robert Wilson

Recalculation of the Critical Values for Lawshe’s Content Validity Ratio

The content validity ratio (Lawshe) is one of the earliest and most widely used methods for quantifying content validity. To correct and expand the table, critical values in unit steps and at multiple alpha levels were computed. Implications for content validation are discussed.

Assessing the equivalence of paper-and-pencil vs. computerized tests: Demonstration of a promising methodology

Abstract A computer-administered version of a test-attitudes screening instrument was examined for generalizability and evaluated against criteria for parallelism with the identical test in paper-and-pencil format. Implications for computerized testing are discussed.

Concurrent Validity of Four Androgyny Instruments.

Four sex-role instruments were administered to a group of 281 graduate and undergraduate students at an urban university. Concurrent validity was examined through the use of correlational and factor-analytic techniques. Seven problems in interpretation of the categorizations made by the several instruments were identified: (1) item homogeneity of individual scales; (2) convergence of corresponding scales and divergence of scales from their complements; (3) multifactoriality; (4) factor complexity; (5) distribution of content across instruments; (6) interaction between factor complexity and content balance; and (7) correspondence of classifications of subjects across instruments.

Training group workers: Implications of the new asgw training standards for training and practice

Abstract The new ASGW Standards and their evolution are described and contrasted with 1983 Standards. Implications for group work training and practice are presented.

Context for revising the association for specialists in group work training standards

Abstract The revised standards for the training of group workers, recently adopted by the Association for Specialists in Group Work Executive Board (April 1991) are presented, preceded by a context for their development.

A Standards-Based Inventory for Assessing Perceived Importance of and Confidence in Using ASGW's Core Group Work Skills.

Since the early 1980s, ASGW has promulgated standards for training group workers. Now, in their third revision, these standards establish core group work knowledge and skills to be included in all counselor training programs. To advance research on the relationship between mastery of ASGWs core knowledge and other group training and outcome phenomena, the ASGW Training Standards Committee developed the Core Group Work Skills Inventory—Importance and Confidence (CGWSI-IC) to assess an individuals valuing of and confidence in using the knowledge and skills embodied in the standards and assessed its psychometric properties.

Evolving lessons from group work involvement in china

Abstract This article contains a report of lessons the authors have been developing based on their group work in China. These lessons, organized in accordance with the Association for Specialists in Group Work (ASGW) Best Practice Guidelines, are derived from 5 years of experience in studying, planning, delivering, and researching group work in China. Lessons learned include understanding how cultural imperatives apply and work gets done in relation to planning, being sensitive to the uniqueness of another cultures communication styles and attitudes about leadership in regard to performing, and providing sufficient time to allow for comfortable accommodation of differences in language and culture during processing. It is intended that these evolving lessons will be beneficial to other group workers who may become involved with Chinese applications.

How Teaching Group Work Can Be Guided by Foundational Documents: Best Practice Guidelines, Diversity Principles, Training Standards

The Association for Specialists in Group Work (ASGW) Best Practice Guidelines, ASGW Principles for Diversity-Competent Group Workers, and ASGW Professional Standards for the Training of Group Workers are foundational documents commissioned by ASGW to clarify our professional niche, articulate our common values, and enhance the professionalism of group work training and practice. This article describes the contents of the foundational documents, describes their value, and discusses how they can be used in training group workers.

The general status of group work training in accredited counseling programs

Abstract In a national survey, CACREP -accredited counseling programs were assessed for compliance with the 1990 Association for Specialists in Group Work standards for group work training, including knowledge and skill standards for core training, and the four group work specializations (task and work groups, psycho educational groups, counseling groups, and psychotherapy groups).

Group-based prevention programs for at-risk adolescents and adults

Abstract Because the need for remedial mental health services has outstripped treatment resources, mental health professionals must shift focus from remediation to prevention. Group-based delivery of such services promotes economical use of intervention resources. This article summarizes developmental themes, interventions, issues, and goals emerging from a review of more than 70 process and outcome studies of group-based delivery of preventive health services for later adolescents and adults published during the past decade.