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Download full textSmith, Douglas K. – 1995
The role of school psychologists and counselors in assessment is well established. With the current emphasis on collaboration in schools and the use of a pupil services model to deliver services, it is important to examine ways in which school psychologists and counselors can work together for assessment purposes. School psychologists' involvement…
Descriptors: Cooperation, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods, Evaluation Problems
Jones, Dionne J.; Watson, Betty Collier – 1990
Student attrition is a major problem for American colleges and universities because an increasing number of enrollees fit the demographic and socioeconomic profile of "high-risk" students, who consist in general of minorities, the academically disadvantaged, the disabled, and those of low socioeconomic status. Declining enrollments leave…
Descriptors: Academic Failure, Academic Persistence, Dropout Prevention, Dropout Research
Banks, Ron – 1997
Bullying is a serious problem that can dramatically affect the ability of students to progress academically and socially. Bullying is comprised of direct behaviors such as teasing, taunting, threatening, hitting, and stealing that are initiated by one or more students against a victim. Bullying may also be more indirect by causing a student to be…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Antisocial Behavior, Bullying, Elementary Secondary Education
Robertson, Anne S. – 1997
Many teens experience a time when keeping up with school work is difficult. Some adolescents are able to get through this time with minimal assistance from their parents or teachers. However, when the difficulties last longer than a single grading period or are linked to a long-term pattern of poor school performance, parents and teachers may need…
Descriptors: Academic Failure, Adolescents, At Risk Persons, High Risk Students
ERIC Clearinghouse on Urban Education, New York, NY. – 1991
The following two types of student mobility stand out as causing educational problems: (1) inner-city mobility, which is prompted largely by fluctuations in the job market; and (2) intra-city mobility, which is caused by upward mobility or by poverty and homelessness. Most research indicates that high mobility negatively affects student…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Effective Schools Research, Elementary Secondary Education, Family Mobility
Rasmussen, Linda – 1988
Children of migrant farmworkers are among the segments of the population most difficult to educate. Data from 1974 indicates the average migrant student had a 40% chance of reaching ninth grade, an 11% chance of reaching 12th grade, and a less than 10% chance of graduating from high school. Factors correlated with students quitting school are…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Access to Education, Change Strategies, Dropout Prevention
