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Counselor Positions Are Being Eliminated Or Replaced With Other Professionals. “Are School
Counselors Worth It?” How School Counselor's Impact Students, School Settings, Academic
Learning or Career College Achievement
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Institution
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Summarizing and Critiquing Articles
Kim, J., Geesa, R. L., & McDonald, K. (2020). School principals’ and counselors’ focus on
college-going: The impact of school leader expectations and primary counseling goals
on postsecondary education. Journal of College Access, 5(2), 4.
Summary
The article by Kim, Geesa, and McDonald (2020), analysis how the school counselors
and principals and their counseling is essential when promoting secondary enrolment. The article
also discusses how school counselors help student accomplish their secondary school. In the
article, the authors claims that many of counselors in the schools are given tasks that are not
suitable to them. It is crucial for school counselors to be assigned with suitable tasks to help
advance secondary enrolment. The article claims that school counseling goals are important for
principals to improve school society.
Critique
The article is reputable or reliable because the method of data collection and analysis was
on a top notch. This is because the authors used information from HSLS: 09 that was
longitudinal research of a country representative sample from high school learners and
information from Fall 2009 9th and 11th graders. Also, the dataset was crucial for analyzing and
making final conclusion because it included essential contextual information from other sources
like school counselors and school administrators at first follow-up and the base year. The sample
used was 10,273 individuals from Fall 2009 that included many races of American people. The
data analysis was reputable because the authors steered hierarchical logistic regression analysis
Counselor Positions Are Being Eliminated Or Replaced With Other Professionals. “Are School
Counselors Worth It?” How School Counselor's Impact Students, School Settings, Academic
Learning or Career College Achievement
Name
Institution
Date
, 2
Summarizing and Critiquing Articles
Kim, J., Geesa, R. L., & McDonald, K. (2020). School principals’ and counselors’ focus on
college-going: The impact of school leader expectations and primary counseling goals
on postsecondary education. Journal of College Access, 5(2), 4.
Summary
The article by Kim, Geesa, and McDonald (2020), analysis how the school counselors
and principals and their counseling is essential when promoting secondary enrolment. The article
also discusses how school counselors help student accomplish their secondary school. In the
article, the authors claims that many of counselors in the schools are given tasks that are not
suitable to them. It is crucial for school counselors to be assigned with suitable tasks to help
advance secondary enrolment. The article claims that school counseling goals are important for
principals to improve school society.
Critique
The article is reputable or reliable because the method of data collection and analysis was
on a top notch. This is because the authors used information from HSLS: 09 that was
longitudinal research of a country representative sample from high school learners and
information from Fall 2009 9th and 11th graders. Also, the dataset was crucial for analyzing and
making final conclusion because it included essential contextual information from other sources
like school counselors and school administrators at first follow-up and the base year. The sample
used was 10,273 individuals from Fall 2009 that included many races of American people. The
data analysis was reputable because the authors steered hierarchical logistic regression analysis
