Faced with increased exposure to violence, a number of choices, and a deterioration of support systems, many students feel powerless. Students need help dealing with these issues within the context of society. Recent developments in K-12 school guidance and counseling argue for the establishment of comprehensive, developmental counseling and…

Results-based evaluation and assessment of guidance and counseling is a difficult task. How to best evaluate whether the comprehensive guidance program was getting the intended results became an issue for Omaha Public Schools. They set about to draft a framework for measuring student behavior or learning resulting from activities associated with…

In the late 1990s the Texas Education Agency advocated the transformation of all counseling services into developmental guidance programs. This document describes the process undertaken and the lessons learned when evaluating a small, rural school district in north Texas in order to begin this model transformation. The purpose of the study was to…

This document presents a brief overview of each of the following components of the system of state and local district evaluation of the Missouri Comprehensive Guidance Program (MCGP): program evaluation, personnel supervision and evaluation, and results evaluation. Appendixes constituting approximately 90% of the document contain the following:…