Exam 9: Academic Development

The process of teaching skills used in this Student Success Skills curriculum followed the instruction model identified by Wang, Haertel, and Walberg (1994) as being effective, ___________ .

Differentiation for classroom guidance refers to consideration of varying instruction based upon students' ages and ability levels, such as:

__________ are those in which students learn highly specific instructional behaviors, and have facilitated tutoring over a long period of time with a large number of students.

As an example of an intervention to increase family-school connections, __________ interactive homework approach is designed to increase families' involvement in their children's education as well as to improve communication between parents and teachers.

Brown and Trusty (2005) contend that strategic interventions are more likely to increase students' academic achievement than comprehensive school counseling programs, since there is limited evidence for their effectiveness in improving students' academic skills. What are strategic interventions?

In a review of intervention approaches on the probability of school dropout, White and Kelly (2010) found that there was only one study that they could find that actually included dropout as a dependent variable (Wirth-Bond et al., 1991). Why are there so few studies on school dropout?

Cox (2005) integrated the results of 18 empirical studies that involved parent-education collaborations and children's success behaviors at school, including grades and quality of work, and found these interventions were the most successful when characterized by:

House and Hayes (2002) explain that opportunities for students, particularly those who are poor and those of color, are almost always highly related to:

Regarding closing-the-gap action plans, the __________is essential to help school counselors to identify and eliminate school practices that may be impeding equitable access and opportunities for success in rigorous coursework

Perhaps one of the most important set of skills that students may possess is to be able to effectively prepare for:

School counselors can encourage students to complete less-preferred homework assignments first, __________, or complete after easier work has been accomplished.

Why have most states have eliminated the requirement for school counselors to have teaching experience?

What types of evidence-based school counseling programs with measurable outcomes can positively impact students' academic achievement?

In conducting an ecological assessment before teaching study skills, first, team members analyze the problem together and define it using measurable and specific terms. This may include a:

The primary aim of the Transforming School Counseling Initiative (TSCI) was to modify the preparation of school counselors to enable them to:

Study skills involve __________, in which students learn to use a variety of techniques to incorporate fundamental principles of effective learning into their studying and learning.

School counselors should consider the environmental supports for students to complete homework, including:

The ASCA National Model (2012) indicates that school counselors contribute to academic development at both the _______________ level.

School counselors should consider integrating counseling topics into traditional curricular mapping, in which:

Research has shown that administrators in the high-performing schools with small achievement gaps for students were more intentional in acknowledging and rewarding academic achievement, regularly monitoring teaching and learning by providing instructional feedback and support, and