The Construction of Evaluation Index System of College Counselors' Core Competence

E To construct an evaluation index system of college counselors' core competence, and provide reference for the selection, training and assessment of college counselors. Methods Based on the analysis of the current status of college counselors' core competence, the characteristics and needs of students' work, and guided by the theories of educational psychology and management, 28 experts were interviewed for 3 times in a semi-structured way, and a pretest was conducted for another 14 experts, and the basic contents of the evaluation index system of college counselors' core competence were preliminarily formulated. Then the Delphi method was used to carry out two rounds of consultation with the other 70 experts, and then the analytic hierarchy process was used to construct the evaluation index system. Finally, this evaluation index system was used to investigated 379 college students selected by stratified random sampling from 7 universities in Guangdong Province to determine its reliability and validity. Results The effective recovery rate of the questionnaire in two rounds of expert consultation were both 100%, the authority coefficients of expert opinions were 0.811 and 0.867, and the coordination coefficients were 0.774 and 0.808, respectively (all P < 0.05); The coefficient of variation of each evaluation index was less than 0.15, and the full score ratio was greater than 0.30, which showed the index system met the requirements of psychometrics. The final evaluation index system included 4 primary indicators, 14 secondary indicators and 50 tertiary indicators. Conclusion The research method in this study is scientific and reliable, and the evaluation index system of college counselors' core competence has good psychometric performance.