Accountability

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Accountability

• Shavon Fields, M.Ed., L.P.C.
• Dr. Shelby T. Wyatt

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Accountability Pre-Test

• Counselors should be appraised using teachers
  evaluation formsTrue or False?
• How often should audits be conducted?
• Guidance program goals should be based on ____?
• How can counselors create/find (a) perception
  data (b) achievement data?

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Accountability

• The Accountability system answers the questions
  How are students different as a result of the
  program?
• Now more than ever, school counselors are
  challenged to demonstrate the effectiveness of
  their programs in measurable terms.

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From Entitlement to Performance

• To a program that
• Focuses on outcomes and improved results
• Measures impact related to goals
• Attends to goals, objectives, and outcomes
• Changes and adapts to be more responsive

• From a program that
• Focuses generally on the number of activities
• Measures the amount of effort
• Attends to the process of doing work
• Works to maintain the existing system

Source McGowen, P. Miller, J., Changing the
Entitlement Culture, The American School Board
Journal, August 1999, p.43
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From Entitlement to Performance

• From counselors who
• Focus on good intentions
• Talk about how hard they work
• Generally feel little need to change their
  behavior or approach

• To counselors who
• Focus on accomplishments
• Talk about effectiveness
• Know their future rests on accomplishments
• Communicate goals and objective

Source McGowen, P. Miller, J., Changing the
Entitlement Culture, The American School Board
Journal, August 1999, p.43
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Accountability

• Results-Based Planning
• Results Reports
• School Counselor Performance Evaluation
• The Program Audit

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Results-Based Program Planning

• GOALS BASED ON NEEDS
• PLANS BASED ON GOALS

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Determining Needs

• Needs Assessments
• Staff
• Students
• Parents
• School Data
• Student Achievement
• Achievement-Related
• Standards- and Competency-Related
• Disaggregate

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Results-Based Program Planning

• Planning --gt Evaluation --gt Delivery System

• Assess Needs
• Select Goal
• Determine Evaluation
• Develop Program
• Report Results

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Results-Based Program Planning

• Accountability Process

• Mission as guide
• Elements of critical data are chosen
• Analyze data to set goal
• Stakeholders-Unite to develop action plan
• Reanalyze, Reflect, and Revise to determine if
  program was successful and to make changes
• Educate others by reporting your results

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Accountability

• Results-Based Planning
• Results Reports
• School Counselor Performance Evaluation
• The Program Audit

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Results Reports

• WHAT?
• Include process, perception and results data.
  Collect immediate, intermediate and long range
  results.
• WHY?
• Ensure that programs are carried out, analyzed
  for effectiveness, and changed and improved as
  needed. Sharing these reports with stakeholders
  serves to advocate for the students and the
  program.

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Data Sources

• Process and perception data are created by
  counselors
• Results Data are based on achievement and
  achievement-related school reports
• School Report Card
• Attendance Office
• Disciplinarian
• SI

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Impact of Counseling Program Over Time

• Demonstrates how the school counseling program
  impacts overall student progress
• Provides a comparison of baseline school data
  with the same data over a period of 3-5 years in
  counseling domains (academic, personal/social,
  career)

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Immediate Results Report (perceptions data)

• After classroom guidance lessons pre-post tests
  indicated
• student knowledge of goal setting increased from
  10 to 98
• number of students who could
• peacefully resolve a conflict increased
• from 55 to 88

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Intermediate Results Report (achievement data)

• After Academic Counseling Groups with students
  failing multiple classes
• 37 of 9th graders (64)
• 24 of 10th graders (47)
• 72 of 11th graders (46)
• Demonstrated GPA improvement

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Long-Term and Results Over Time
Reports (achievement-related data)

• After the first year of the mentoring program,
  this years attendance rate has improved from 84
  in October to 89 in May.
• Following implementation of a Conflict Manager
  program the number of suspended students was
  reduced from 13 in 97/98 to 10 in 99/00, 7 in
  00/01, and to 3 in 01/02.

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Accountability

• Results-Based Planning
• Results Reports
• School Counselor Performance Evaluation
• The Program Audit

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Counselor Performance Appraisal

• Standard 1 Program Organization
• Standard 2 Guidance Curriculum
• Standard 3 Individual Planning with Students
• Standard 4 Response Services
• Standard 5 Systems Support
• Standard 6 Counselor/Administrator Agreement
• Standard 7 Use of Data
• Standard 8 Student Monitoring
• Standard 9 Master Calendar/Time
• Standard 10 Results Evaluation
• Standard 11 Program Audit
• Standard 12 Advisory Council
• Standard 13 Infusing Themes

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Accountability

• Results-Based Planning
• Results Reports
• School Counselor Performance Evaluation
• The Program Audit

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Program Audit

• Designed to assess the school counseling program
  in comparison with ASCAs National Model
• Audits are consulted when the program is being
  designed and then annually to appraise progress.
• Use findings of program implementation, results,
  evaluations, and stakeholders assessments

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Post-Test

• Counselors should be appraised using teachers
  evaluation formsTrue or False?
• How often should audits be conducted?
• Guidance program goals should be based on _____?
• How can counselors create/find (a) perception
  data (b) achievement-related data?