Answers
What is outcome data? - Correct answer-Achievement data
Impact on student achievement, attendance or discipline
Ex: reading levels, discipline referrals
promoting / graduation rate, completion,
Mindset & Behavior Data or Perception? - Correct answer-Attitudes, Skills and
Knowledge measured from your intervention
pre/post
What is process data ? - Correct answer-WHO, WHAT, WHERE, WHEN, HOW
LONG
450 students in grades 9-12 completed three classroom lessons with their
counselor.
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,120 9th-grade students submitted complete four-year graduation plans to their
counselor.
Which major component of a comprehensive school counseling program most
directly allows a school counselor to demonstrate school-level leadership? -
Correct answer-SYSTEM SUPPORT
SYSTEM SUPPORT - Correct answer-The system support component of the
comprehensive school counseling program utilizes a counselor's leadership skills to
support the total school environment and promote systemic change.
The ASCA Mindsets & Behaviors for Student Success outline standards for student
learning that can be addressed through a classroom guidance curriculum. Which
component of an ASCA National Model program includes these standards? -
Correct answer-FOUNDATION
FOUNDATION- - Correct answer-Program focus- Mission statement and goals
Student competencies- Academic, career, and personal/social development
Professional competencies- Knowledge, attitudes, and skills of good counseling
What is Management ? - Correct answer-Assessments and tools that manage a
school counseling program
School counselor competency/program assessment
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,Use-of-time assessment
Annual Agreements
Advisory councils
Curriculum, small group, close-the-gap action plans
Annual and weekly calendars
What is Delivery ? - Correct answer-Method of delivering programming
Direct services
School counseling core curriculum
Individual student planning
Responsive services
Indirect services
What is Accountability ? - Correct answer-Helps professional school counselors
analyze data
Using data to measure impact of services
Guide new programming
Judge performance
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, What are Responsive Services ? - Correct answer--Under the Delivery umbrella
- short-term counseling interventions to resolve immediate conflicts/problems,
respond to crisis events, and intervene in school-specific situations that disrupt
learning.
IDEA (Individuals with Disabilities Education Act) - Correct answer-guarantees
children with disabilities the right to a free and appropriate public education.
IEP - Correct answer-can include accommodations and modifications, such as
extended time on tests or written copies of class notes and related services such as
speech therapy or occupational therapy, all provided free of charge to the student
What IDEA does not require is preferential - Correct answer-treatment or
guaranteed participation in athletics or extracurriculars.
Performing disciplinary actions or assigning disciplinary consequences is never an
appropriate - Correct answer-counselors may support administrators by counseling
students who have disciplinary problems, helping to identify and resolve student
issues, advocating for students, or analyzing discipline data.
Writing a mission and vision statement most closely aligns with which component
of the ASCA National model - Correct answer-Manage
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