WELCOME DUVAL COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS SCHOOL COUNSELORS

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WELCOME DUVAL COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS SCHOOL
COUNSELORS

• ACCOUNTABILITY
• COUNSELORS COUNT!

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Things Change
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Forecasting the Future

• I think there is a world market for maybe five
  computers.
• Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943
• Computers in the future may weigh no more than
  1.5 tons.
• Popular Mechanics Magazine, 1949

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Changing World
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World is always changing

• New Economy
• New jobs
• New opportunities
• New skills challenges
• More meetings
• Old Habits Assumptions

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Accountability

• Nothing New
• Yet
• Sign of the Times

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Accountability is

• Asking questions
• Gathering data to provide answers
• Explaining results

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Accountability

• Is almost always somebody elses idea of a good
  thing to do.

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Accountability

• Is not likely to be on the wish list of those who
  are being asked to be more accountable.

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Accountabilityin the schools

• Performance
• Academic achievement on standardized tests

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School Counselors Count
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Resistance

• Dont have time

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Resistance

• Threatening

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• Lack of knowledge and skills

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• Confronting

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• High Expectations

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• No intrinsic or extrinsic rewards
• Legal and ethical hassles
• Let somebody else do it.

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So whats involved?

• Collecting data that
• is timely and systematic.
• is specific.
• helps determine effectiveness.
• is tied to academic performance and related
  student outcomes.

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What purpose does it serve counselors?

• Confirms useful practices.
• Leads to modification of some practices.
• Stops some practices.
• Helps tell the story of a counselors job and
  contributions.

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System Accountability Studies

• Checklist of program standards --
• Duval and State
• School, district, and state achievement tests.
• FCAT
• Routine follow-up of counselor interventions
• A project or study

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Effective System Studies

• Agreement on goals.
• Gains must be observable behaviors.
• Interventions are costs not accomplishments.
• Positive and professional, without blame or
  punishment

• Participants must be involved in designing the
  accountability system.
• The system is subject to evaluation and
  modification.
• John Krumboltz

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Three Key Questions

• What are the student needs?
• Identify needs interests
• What is being done?
• Tally services and interventions
• Is there a difference?
• Measure effectiveness

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Labels and Categories
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Assessing Student Needs and Interests

• Program standards or benchmarks
• Experience
• Available data
• Surveys
• Students
• Parents
• Grade teams and school committees
• Samples

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Count and Tally

• Count interventions
• Count hours of service
• Count number of people served

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Assessing Results

• Testimonials
• Standardized tests
• Behavior observations
• Self Other Reports
• Perceived frequency
• Perceived agreement

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Likert-Type Scales

• Degree of Agreement
• Frequency

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Degree of Agreement

• Strongly Agree
• Agree
• Uncertain
• Disagree
• Strongly Disagree

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Responses

• LettersSA A U D SD
• Numbers1 2 3 4 5
• FacesFrowns Smiles

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Perceived Frequency

• Very Often
• Often
• Sometimes
• Seldom
• Very Seldom

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Counting
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Counting is a way of life.
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Basic Steps in Accountability

• Identify the desired goals
• Tell about the intervention
• Describe the results
• Interpret the findings
• Write a final report
• Tell others

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Case Studies

• At what point are you starting? How can you tell?
• What do you want to have happen? How will you
  know if it happens?
• What will you do?
• What is the timeline?

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Comparative Studies

• Two or more groups One group receives immediate
  assistance one does not
• Groups are compared
• Within Groups
• (Gains)
• Between Groups
• (Differences)

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The Collaborative Study

• Across schools and counselors.
• Agreement on
• population
• measures
• timeline
• Pool data for group analysis

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Brief Reports

• Know your audience
• Provide summary or abstract (1-2 pages)
• Provide simple graphics
• Highlight selected gains (1-paragraph)
• Examples
• Implications and Recommendations

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Helpful hints

• Avoid being defensive
• Accept limitations
• Work with someone
• Develop measures
• Use a model study or examples

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• Be selective on what to evaluate...cant
  evaluate everything
• Take small steps toward goals
• Build one success upon another
• Celebrate your gains
• Publicize results

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The Future ofGuidance and Counseling
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• ITS COOL TO COUNT...AND

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Thanks for all your efforts!
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