“…Despite the popularity of the NCES national longitudinal databases for research use in education-related disciplines, few school counseling researchers (Adams, Benshoff, & Harrington, 2007;Bryan, Holcomb-McCoy, Moore-Thomas, & Day-Vines, 2009;Lee & Smith-Adcock, 2005;Trusty & Niles, 2003) have used these databases to investigate student outcomes or implications of school counseling practice. Furthermore, every year since 1990, with the support of the National Science Foundation (NSF), the American Educational Research Association (AERA) Grants Program has awarded a number of dissertation grants and research grants to doctoral-level and faculty researchers specifically for research using large-scale national and international databases maintained by NCES and the NSF (Murdock, 2006(Murdock, , 2008Whiteley, Seelig, Weinshenker, & Schneider, 2002).…”