The Level of Central Java Counselors Evaluation Competency based on Gender and Workplace Demography

Abstract

Evaluation competency owned by a school counselor is a determining factor to the effectiveness of
the service programs given to counselees. Each of the school counselor must have this competency
regardless their workplace. By referring to this background, the purpose of this study was to determine the
level of evaluation competency of counselors in Central Java analyzed based on gender and their workplace.
The study involved 344 school counselors from Junior High School and Senior High School levels in Central
Java. It was done using a survey method with the technique of cross-sectional. The results showed that
according to the difference level (CE= 4.18 p<0.05), the male counselors tended to have higher evaluation
competency than the female. Moreover, the workplace variable apparently contributed no significant result
on the counselors’ evaluation competency (F (1,342) = 0.044, p> 0.05). The implication and
recommendation of these findings for future studies are explained in this article.