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Young, Anita; Kaffenberger, Carol – Professional School Counseling, 2011
School counselors are required to implement accountability strategies in order to increase student performance and contribute to closing the achievement gap. This study investigates the beliefs and practices of school counselors who have earned national recognition for implementing comprehensive school counseling programs based on identifying…
Descriptors: Achievement Gap, Recognition (Achievement), Program Evaluation, Demonstration Programs
Bos, Johannes; Berman, Jacqueline – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2009
The primary research question for this project was whether a streamlined, relatively inexpensive, counseling-based program that assists low-income high school students with the college and financial application processes can significantly increase college enrollment rates. The intervention was designed to test the hypothesis that lack of…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Intervention, Grade Point Average, Disadvantaged