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Counseling Software Evaluations:
Create Your Own Dream Job
reviewed by: Cordelia Wright (SMCC); John Hanson (PC)

evaluation summary
1. Overall, how would you rate this program?

| | Excellent       |X| Good       | | Fair       | | Poor

The humor using Albert Einstein, Amelia Earhart, and Thoreau was good. The dream sequence was a nice touch and I felt there was good prompting to elicit student thinking and action.
2. Please describe specific strengths, weaknesses, and/or limitations of the program.
Great introducton, but it did have a weakness in transition from program to journal; students need support here. Excellent visuals. Strengths: Good overall explanations, talent inventory good. Weaknessess: Too much assessment on examples in program, too much dependency on personal journal.
3. Would you recommend this program?

|X| Yes       | | No

4. If you indicated "yes" to Question 3 above, in what settings would you use this program?

|X| Courses: Career explanation, career and personal development; CPD298 Cooperative Learning, CWE Career and Work Experience.
|X| The Learning Lab:
|X| Client Counseling situations:

Quality of Program Components
Defintely
Yes		 Somewhat Defintely
No
5 4 3 2 1 N/A
1. The program directions are clear.
We assume there is a journal provided that relates to the direction alluded to on the software.		 | | |X| | | | | | | | |
2. Students can easily use the software independently.
May need some supervision or support with the journal.		 | | |X| | | | | | | | |
3. The purposes of the program are clearly communicated.
Yes, but too much time is spent on examples when the purpose stated is student career and personal assessment.		 | | |X| | | | | | | | |
4. The program content is accurate. | | |X| | | | | | | | |
5. The content is appropriately sequenced. |X| | | | | | | | | | |
6. The program content is up-to-date. |X| | | | | | | | | | |
7. The information provided in the feedback is helpful.
Yes, but sometimes it doesn't personalize feedback. We would like to see personal input on the computer to generate a computerized printout.		 |X| | | | | | | | | | |
8. The tone and style of the program are appropriate for community college students.
A pretty effective introduction.		 |X| | | | | | | | | | |
9. The program's visual presentation is appropriate for community college students. |X| | | | | | | | | | |
10. The program represents the diversity of our student population.
Only 2 populations were represented - older student examples, predominantly Caucasion and one African-American, no others.		 | | |X| | | | | | | | |
Ideas For Uses of the Software
Uses in the classroom:
How would you use this program or a particular part of this program in a classroom lesson? (List and explain the specific steps you would do so that another faculty member could clearly understand how to use this program in the classroom)

  1. Use as a primary puzzle piece for the career exploration process.
  2. Class assessment of overall career and personal issues (group).
  3. Outside lab assignment for interest inventory and personal assessment after having used the program examples in class discussion and analysis.
  4. Projected on screen with Persuasionª/hardware. Then have students respond in a group or paper.
  5. Also could be used in a self-esteem class.
Uses in the Client Counseling:
How would you use this program in a client counseling situation? (List and explain the specific steps you would do so that another counselor could clearly understand how to use this program in a client setting)

Individual Career Counseling could be useful although most individual work is done in a journal, I think. Is there a self-resulting feedback on the computer?