Round 3—Summarization of Counselor Tasks

  1. Each task rating for current use of CRT to accomplish the task was summarized for percent of panelists responding with each of the five possible ratings. Percent ratings for responses of 5, 4, or 3 were then grouped together to form an overall use of CRT rating for each counselor task.

  2. For items selected by at least 50% of Delphi panelists as accomplished with the help of CRT, mean ratings and total frequencies of panelists responding were calculated.

  3. Next, items panelists selected as using CRT were rank-ordered according to mean rating in descending order from 5.00 to 3.00 and grouped according to counselor task category.

  4. The percent of panelists rating each counselor task as "2" or "1" for use of CRT were grouped together to form an overall non-use of CRT percentage rating for each task.

  5. For items selected by at least 50% of Delphi panelists as not accomplished with the help of CRT, mean ratings and total frequencies of panelists responding were calculated.

  6. Of the non-use items, those specifically rated "2 = [CRT] not used, but would like to" were rank-ordered according to percent responding in descending order of magnitude, then grouped according to task category.

  7. The categorization of counselor tasks into use and non-use items was repeated for responses from counselors and technologists combined, counselors as a separate group, and technologists as a separate group.

  8. Steps 1-7 were repeated for future ratings.

© Katherine Cabaniss

The URL for the dissertation is:

http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-03072001-175713/