An approach to goal-based evaluation of school psychological service departments

Increasingly, there has been concern among school psychologists for evaluating goal attainment of their services. Although adequate discussion has ensued about goalbased evaluation of individual programs (e.g., behavior management) and group programs (e.g., group counseling), little attention has been given to goal-based evaluation of organizational programs such as a department of school psychological services. This paper describes an approach for goal-based evaluation of school psychological service departments, termed “Needs-Based Goal Attainment Scaling,” that builds upon previously developed approaches to goal attainment scling.