Past Conferences




Members of the CRWG have made the following conference presentations:

  • Hiebert, B. (2007, June). Measuring the Impact of Career Guidance: State of Practice in Canada. Invited address presented to Who Cares About Career? Career Guidance Week, Centre for Guidance Studies, University of Derby, Derby, England.
  • Hiebert, B. (2007, June). Building an evidence-based toolkit: Where next? Invited address presented to Who Cares About Career? Career Guidance Week, Centre for Guidance Studies, University of Derby, Derby, England.

  • Hiebert, B. (2006, August). Evidence-Based Practice: The Guidance Practitioner as a Local Clinical Scientist. Paper presented to the annual meeting of the International Association of Educational and Vocational Guidance, Copenhagen, Denmark.

    Canadian policy makers have recently stated “You haven’t made the case for the impact and value of career development services,” a claim echoed by policy makers and funders in many countries. In order to address this concern, it will be necessary for guidance practitioners to integrate client outcome evaluation into their service delivery practices in a way that creates a link between what is being done in careers guidance and the client changes that result. This session will outline a model for how counsellors can become rigorous scientific observers of their own practices and the client changes that occur during counselling. The model has been developed by the Canadian Research Working Group for Evidence-Based Practice in Career Development and is currently being validated in numerous field settings
  • Hiebert, B. (2006, June). Assessing the Impact of Career Services in Post Secondary institutions. Paper presented to the annual meeting of the Canadian Association of Career Educators and Employers, Calgary, Alberta.

    Recent research in Canada indicates that counsellors and agency administrators both believe that it is important to evaluate career development services. However, when asked how often they evaluate their work with clients, the majority reported that they seldom do it. Ten years ago a national survey of career and employment revealed a similar situation: counsellors seldom evaluate their work with clients. The evaluation practices from respondents in educational settings were among the most sparse of any sub-group surveyed. In both studies, the majority of respondents reported that they thought the programs and services they offered were beneficial and the interventions they used were effective. However, they rarely gathered evidence that would provide a convincing link between the interventions used and the outcomes achieved. The lack of outcome evidence creates a state of vulnerability for counselling services in general and career services in particular. This presentation will focus on the work of the Canadian Research Working Group for Evidence-Based Practice in Career Development (CRWG) to create a framework for evaluating career development services, which is an approach that has great utility for those working in post-secondary educational settings
  • Hiebert, B10%"006, June). Evidence-Based Practice: Tracking Client Outcomes with Informal Data. Paper presented to the annual meeting of the Canadian Psychological Association, Calgary, Alberta.

    Recent surveys of counsellor practice suggests that most counsellors believe that they are effective in their work with clients, however, most counsellors were unable to produce evidence to support this belief because they did not systematically evaluate their work with clients. This session will focus on using informal (non-standardized) assessment procedures to evaluate client progress in counselling. It will present a framework for approaching the task of demonstrating the value of counselling and documenting a causal link between counselling process and outcome
  • Borgen, W., Hiebert, B., Lalande, V., Magnusson, K., Bezanson, M.L., Baudouin, R., Goyer, L. Michaud, G., Renald, C., & Turcotte, M. (2006, April). Measuring the Impact of Career Services: A Framework for Service Evaluation. Paper presented to the annual meeting of the Canadian Counselling Association, Montreal, Quebec.

    In response to increasing pressure to demonstrate the impact of career services, the Canadian Research Working Group for Evidence-Based Practice in Career Development conducted a survey of Canadian career services providers.  The results indicated a clear need to develop robust, comprehensive and effective measures of service impact.  Following these results, the CRWG developed a framework for career services evaluation.  In this session, the framework is described, and the results of a pilot test of the application of the framework are presented.  Future plans for meeting other issues raised by the survey will also be discussed.
  • Lalande, V., Magnusson, K., Borgen, W., Bezanson, M. L., & Hiebert, B. (2006, January). Measuring the Impact of Career Services: Current and Desired Practices for Agencies, Practitioners, Policy makers and Employers. Paper presented to the National Consultation for Career Development, Ottawa, Ontario.

    The Canadian Research Working Group for Evidence-Based Practice in Career Development conducted a study with agencies, practitioners, policy makers and employers to better understand the currently utilized and preferred practices for the evaluation of career development services in Canada. Data were collected in French and English from website surveys; a focus group of participants at NATCON 2005; and telephone interviews. This presentation will provide an overview of the results of this research including recommendations from respondents about how value could be better measured.  The implications for future research and the next steps of the Working Group in taking these recommendations forward will be presented.
  • Lalande,V., Bezanson, M. L., & Hiebert, B. (2005, September). Evidence Based Practice in Career Development Services for Canadian. Paper presented to the International Association for Educational and Vocational Guidance, Lisbon, Portugal.

    There is a need to develop effective systems of gathering data that attest to the impact and value that career development/career guidance services have for individuals, employers and society. This presentation will report the results of preliminary research conducted by the Canadian Research Working Group for Evidence-Based Practice in Career Development (CRWG) regarding the types of career services outcomes that are desired and/or have been identified and reported. The research involved the collection of data through an online survey of career development practitioners and phone interviews with government career development policy developers and employers. A focus group was also conducted with career practitioners, employers and government policy developers. Implications for the development of a comprehensive framework for best practices in the evaluation of career development services and interventions will be discussed.
  • Baudouin, R., Magnusson, K., Borgen, W., Bezanson, M. L., & Hiebert, B. (2005, May). Measuring the Impact of Career Services: State of Practice. Paper presented to the annual meeting of the Canadian Counselling Association, St. John’s, Newfoundland.

    As a follow-up to the 2003 Working Connections Symposium on Career Development, Lifelong Learning and Workforce Development, the Canadian Research Working Group for Evidence-Based Practice in Career Development launched a study to better understand the current state of practice in Canada with respect to documenting the results of career interventions and services.  Four data collections were conducted : a website survey for Agencies, Service Providers, a second website survey for Practitioners, a focus group during NATCON 2005 and telephone interviews with Policy Makers  and Employers. All data collections were pan-canadian and in both official languages. This presentation will discuss the preliminary results and implications of the collected data.

 

 

 

  
 

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