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Identifying Best Practices For A College Admission Counselor Fly-In Event, Alexander G. Zotos

Higher Education Student Work

As demographic shifts and economic factors have increased the potential pool of college students in the United States, thoughtful, comprehensive admissions strategies matter to the advancement of higher education (Miller, Valle & Engle, 2014). The focus of this study was to examine the best practices for college admission recruitment strategies, which specifically focused on a national counselor college fly-in event at a medium sized comprehensive institution in New England. The impact that secondary school counselors have on college enrollment is not well documented in the literature. In this project, a survey was distributed to XX secondary school counselors who attended …

The Influence Of Mentorship: A Study On How Academic Advising Can Facilitate A Positive College Student Experience, Timothy Lebel

Higher Education Student Work

At American colleges and universities, academic advising has been traditionally utilized as a tool to aid students in course registration and making sure they are on track towards graduation. However, as the student population continues to diversify, their needs and concerns need continual adaptation to be met as well. Students need an outlet to not only discuss their academic progress, but also to converse about how to tie in their interests and passions, extracurricular involvement, social life, and career and future aspirations with their academics. This opportunity for positive mentorship can go hand in hand with academic advising. Through this …

Assessing The Role Of Academic Advisors In Retention Of International Students, Shreelekha Girish

Higher Education Student Work

The retention of international students should not be viewed as the responsibility of only international student advisors on the college campus. Instead, as suggested by Mamiseishvili (2012), it should become a joint responsibility of a broader campus community, including faculty, academic advisors, English language program staff, and student affairs professionals. Inspired by these ideas, this qualitative research study focused on international students' experiences during their advising sessions with their academic advisors at a four-year, post-secondary private institution in Massachusetts. The study was conducted by interviewing ten international students from different majors. This research explored the necessary information and resources international …

Cultivating Moral Student Leaders: The Relationship Between Experience As A Resident Assistant And Moral Development, Jeremiah Gallego

Selected Honors Theses

This study compared two groups of college students, resident assistants and non-resident assistants, on their increases in moral development assessed by the Sociomoral Reflective Objective Measure ñ Short Form (SROM-SF), a moral judgment measure. The study utilized a pre-test/post-test design. Participants were recruited through in-person communication, classroom presentations, or email. Participants responded to the SROM-SF on an online version in the beginning of a fall semester and completed the same online version of the measure again at the end of that fall semester. Results indicated that the RAs exhibited a greater increase in SROM-SF scores over the course of the …

Hints For Hiring School Counselors: How Can School Counselors Have A Positive Effect On Student Outcomes?, Brandie M. Oliver, Nick R. Abel

Scholarship and Professional Work – Education

Dr. Oliver and Dr. Abel take a look at the role of school counselors and the positive impact they can have on student outcomes.

An Examination Of Student Engagement And Retention In An Honors Progra, Jessica A. Kampfe, Christine Chasek, John Falconer

Counseling Faculty Publications

Honors programs at colleges and universities provide academic and developmental opportunities for high-ability students. Learning communities, defined as a group of students who live together, are connected through membership in a common organization, and take classes together, are often a component of honors programs. Learning communities provide an academic and social community that complements curricular requirements. At the University of Nebraska at Kearney (UNK), a higher education institution in the Midwest, ninety percent of the freshman honor students live together and ninety-five percent take an honors class in their first semester on campus. The honors program at UNK is classified …

A Metaevaluation Of School Counseling Program Evaluations, Saeed Mohammed Almueed

Dissertations

School counseling programs have been recognized as an educational component that ultimately benefits student achievement at most developmental stages. Comprehensive school counseling programs are executed in alliance with a specific school counseling model, such as the Comprehensive Developmental Guidance model, or more recently, The American School Counselor Association National Model (ASCA, 2003, 2005, 2012). Although the school counseling literature reports positive outcomes associated with comprehensive school counseling programs, there are still challenges in their implementation and evaluation. Program evaluation as stressed in The ASCA National Model is to confirm the effectiveness and value of these programs and interventions. Yet, the …

Bullying Prevention And Intervention In Education Through The Visual Arts: An Instrumental Case Study, Eugene Neglia

Theses and Dissertations

According to the American Educational Research Association (AERA) (2013) bullying is one of the greatest health risks to children and young adults in the United States. It is harmful in its impact to the victim, the bystander, and the bully and is often less visible and less identifiable than other public health concerns. The effects on victims, offenders, and bystanders can be long lasting and can affect an individual’s development (AERA, 2013).

The impact of bullying on education is profound. As a result of bullying, a child’s academic achievement can be greatly affected (Petrosino, Guckenburg, & DeVoe, 2010). As mandated …

Upacking Your Study Abroad [Brochure And Streaming Video], Anastasia Williams, George Woodard

Counseling Concepts and Applications for Student Affairs Professionals (CNS 577)

Many freshman orientation programs focus more on their on-campus activities and experiences, but few highlight the option to study abroad and all the benefits of an educational experience abroad. This video will introduce the concept of study abroad to freshman students and provide them with the necessary information to get started on a journey abroad. With this video, we seek to give students an idea of what to expect before, during, and after studying abroad, while pointing students to various resources to help them along the way.

Divergent Interpersonal Paths To Well-Being For Insecurely Attached Emerging Adults, Joel A. Lane

Counselor Education Faculty Publications and Presentations

The present study explored attachment, social support, and well-being among a sample of emerging adults. The model predicted that social support would:1) mediate the relationship between attachment anxiety and well-being, and 2) moderate the relationship between attachment avoidance and well-being. All hypotheses were supported. Implications for counselors are discussed.

Implementing Talking Circles In A Living Learning Community, Shaniqua Jones

All Capstone Projects

Restorative Justice is a collaborative decision-making process that has been integrated as an alternative approach to historic means of justice systems globally for thousands of years. Restorative justice began to impact higher education in 1998 in order to strengthen student ties to their respective colleges and universities by enriching student voices and experiences in various areas of academic and student life, including living learning communities. Talking Circles are one of many restorative practices used to facilitate effective dialogue among shareholders because it fosters a similarity of integration, motivation, and values. The purpose of this research is to determine if the …

Efektivitas Teknik Relaksasi Dalam Konseling Kelompok Behavioral Untuk Menurunkan Stres Belajar Siswa Sma, Istiana Nurcahyani, Lutfi Fauzan

Jurnal Kajian Bimbingan dan Konseling

This research purpose to know the effectiveness of relaxation technique in behavioral group counseling to reducing academic stress at senior high school students. Research use one-group pretest-posttest design. The subject are selected 5 students based on high scores academic stress scale. Instruments used the scale academic stress was developed from various theories stress by Hans Selye (1976), Lazarus and Folkman (1984) with reliability is 0.898 and item validity > 0.3. Data were analyzed using wilcoxon signed ranks test. The analysis showed the Z count value is -2.032 with significance level of 0.042 <0.05 which can be concluded that relaxation techniques effective for reducing academic stress of senior high school students.

Perspektif “Family System Intervency” Untuk Proteksi Karakter Kebajikan Siswa Sma, Im Hambali

Jurnal Kajian Bimbingan dan Konseling

Today's high school students receive sharp attention from society. This happened because there were many bad incidents involving high school students, including brawls between high school students. The family system perspective study is an argument that provides insight into how family involvement in formal education can be implemented. This research uses a qualitative approach with the type of library research. This research aims to explain how a family intervention perspective can contribute to the implementation of independent character education. The results of this study show that although the idea of family intervention is developing in North American families, Indonesian culture …

Pengembangan Media Letter Sharing Untuk Meningkatkan Keterampilan Komunikasi Siswa Introvert, Elian Iwi Afifah, Triyono Triyono, Yuliati Hotifah

Jurnal Kajian Bimbingan dan Konseling

Communication skills are the most important things for teenagers. There is a leaning that the teenagers who have low communication skills can be called as someone who is introvert personality. People who are introvert personality tend to be difficult to communicate and express verbally. The purpose of developing letter sharing media is to improve communication skills of introvert student. This research is development research by adopting Borg and Gall research model. The development result showed that this product has the criteria of usefulness, feasibility, accuracy, and attractiveness and appropriate when used to facilitate students to express communication skills in writing.

Pengembangan Panduan Pelatihan Creative Problem Solving Untuk Mencegah Bullying Di Smp, Triwibowo Probo Sukarno, Dany Moenindyah Handarini

Jurnal Kajian Bimbingan dan Konseling

This research aims to developing the creative problem solving manual for preventing bullying among junior high school students which acceptable on accuracy, utility, and implementatively. This research method is adapted from procedural research and development Borg & Gall model (1983). Expert and prospective user analyzed by inter-rater agreement (Grinnell, 1988). Agreement result of 3 guidance and counseling experts from accuracy aspect is high, utility is high, and implementatiely is very high. Agreement of 3 prospective users from accuracy is high, utility is high, and implementatively is very high. The conclusion of the test is, this training guide product acceptable.

Keefektifan Konseling Kelompok Adler Untuk Meningkatkan Keterampilan Interpersonal Siswa Smp, Mega Rahma Fitriani, Nur Hidayah

Jurnal Kajian Bimbingan dan Konseling

Interpersonal skills is one of the skills that must be owned by a person in a relationship with other people. A person who failed in developing their interpersonal skills will be found difficulty in many aspects their life, especially on their social aspects. The purpose of this study is to know the effectiveness of Adler group counseling for improving interpersonal skills of junior high school students. This type of study is an quasi experimental method and program of study interrupted time series. From the result of hypotheses which is using wilcoxon signed ranks test, it is concluded if Adler group …

Pengembangan Media Permainan Simulasi Ular Tangga Untuk Meningkatkan Tanggung Jawab Belajar Siswa Smp, Sekar Ariyanti Putri, M. Ramli

Jurnal Kajian Bimbingan dan Konseling

The purpose of this research development is to generating snakes and ladders simulation game media for increasing academic responsibility of junior high school students that meet eligibility criteria. The step development is (1) initial data collection, (2) planning, (3) developing product, (4) validity product, (5) test run product, (6) revision final product. Research result showed that snakes and ladders simulation game for increasing academic responsibility of junior high school students are qualified and worthy of display media used to provide guidance about academic responsibility.

Efektifitas Penggunaan Media Film Untuk Meningkatkan Empati Siswa Kelas Vii Smp, Alan Auliyah, Elia Flurentin

Jurnal Kajian Bimbingan dan Konseling

This study aims to determine the effectiveness of the use of film to improving emphaty sevents grade students junior high school. The study design used a quasi-experimental design using the design of one group pretest-posttest design. Subjects in this study were six students who have the lowest levels of emphaty in the classroom. The research instrument used is the scale of emphaty and guidance experiment. The hypothesis testing is using the Wilcoxon test. Wilcoxon test results showed that the difference value (z) is-2.201 with a significance value of 0.028. Significance value less than 0.05, which means that Ho is rejected, …

Desirable Conversations: Sexuality And Women With Intellectual Disabilities, Neera Malhotra

Dissertations and Theses

The American Association of Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (AAIDD, 2011) assert that individuals with intellectual disabilities, irrespective of gender, have an equal right to learn about and experience their own sexuality. A review of the extant literature indicated that the voices of women with intellectual disabilities on the topic of familial culture, as it relates to sexuality, are rarely included (McCarthy, 1993; Shakespeare, 2000; Siebers, 2012).

The purpose of this qualitative study was to examine the role of familial culture and lived experiences of women with intellectual disabilities, ages 21-35, in understanding their own sexuality. Eight women participated in individual …

College Knowledge: How Immigrant Latino Parents Access Information, Ana F. Ponce

LMU Theses and Dissertations

Among ethnic groups in California Latinos continue to have the lowest high school graduation rates and the lowest college completion rates. This study focused on understanding the role parents can play and ways schools and educators can support immigrant Latino parents to improve these rates.

Framed with a funds of knowledge approach (Gonzalez, N., Moll, L., & Amanti, C., 2005), this mixed-methods qualitative and quantitative study was conducted in a public charter high school in a low income area of Los Angeles where the student body was primarily Latino. The mission of the school was to prepare students for higher …