The accountability movement in education and the development of the American School Counselor Association (ASCA) National Model encourages school counselors to evaluate the effectiveness of their school counseling program based on student achievement. This study surveyed Wisconsin elementary school counselors to determine their use of…

School counselors acknowledge the need for supervision but rarely receive it. This article describes the counselor performance improvement system in one school district. Supervision is embedded in a process that assesses counselors' levels of professionalism on a matrix of competence and commitment. Administrative and clinical supervisors…

Smokers (N=117) were presented with descriptions of a smoking control program and a smoking counselor, and were then asked to rate program and counselor effectiveness and counselor empathy. The descriptions varied along three dimensions. Counselor smoking status yielded highly significant main effects on all three dependent measures. (Author)

The National Center for the Study of Corporal Punishment and Alternatives in the Schools, established the Discipline Helpline to guide parents in handling specific discipline problems. To evaluate the telephone counseling service, 63 persons who had contacted the Helpline for assistance with specific discipline problems completed the Helpline…

The Reorganized Junior High School Program completed its second year of operation in June 1973. An additional counselor was hired for each of the two schools in the project, Jordan and Marshall-University. A major procedural objective called for the counselors to place greater emphasis on team member, implementer, and facilitator functions. The…

Minneapolis Public Schools' Reorganized Junior High School Program completed its third and final year of operation with Title III ESEA funds in June 1974. An additional counselor was hired for each of the schools, Jordan and Marshall-University. A major objective was that the counselor would change from a traditional resource person to more of a…

Operation Bridge, a program which was developed by the Detroit Public Schools to train 13 adult advisors to work with adult education students in outreach sites and traditional adult education centers, is described. The selection process, the orientation, the coursework, the internships, and the application of training are discussed. The report on…

Two high school classes, from each of five high schools, separated by five years in time of graduation, are studied and analyzed in depth. Their educational and employment activities as well as selected attitudes towards the high school experience are reported in abundant detail. The research method used was stratified sampling. The crucial…