Conducting Large-Scale Evaluation Studies to Identify Characteristics of Effective Comprehensive School Counseling Programs

An Ecological View of School Counselor Ratios and Student Academic Outcomes: A National Investigation

“…More recently, CSCP frameworks, such as the ASCA National Model (ASCA, ), have emerged as the primary approach to guide best practice. For instance, numerous studies suggest that implementing a fully functioning CSCP may be the most efficacious systemic framework for counselors to influence student academic outcomes (see Sink, Cooney, & Adkins, ). With the expansion of school counseling, school counselors’ professional roles are increasingly nuanced, complex, and multifaceted in order to meet students’ needs.…”

An Exploratory Study of Online Software to Support Accountability Practices

“…Thus, by the 1990s, comprehensive programs became the standard of practice. Subsequent research investigating the efficacy of comprehensive school counseling programs indicates that, when school counselors closely attend to accountability issues within the context of program implementation and management, positive outcomes accrue for students and families (Carey, Harrington, Martin, & Hoffman, 2012; Carey, Harrington, Martin, & Stevenson, 2012; Gysbers & Henderson, 2012; Lapan, Gysbers, & Sun, 1997; Sink, Akos, Turnbull, & Mvududu, 2008; Sink, Cooney, & Adkins, 2017). In fact, the latest version of the ASCA National Model (ASCA, 2012) is a well-defined operational framework to establish accountability practices (e.g., Salina et al, 2013).…”