Assignment:
Many school counselors may feel intimidated about using data to build, monitor, and refine their school counseling programs. The ability to present data in a meaningful way to key stakeholders such as principals, teachers, school board members, parents, and community members is vital to the success of your school counseling program. Consider the following situation:
As a school counselor, you have noticed a larger number of referrals than usual for grief issues coming to your office. You send a survey to teachers and find that there are several students who have lost loved ones over the summer and are in need of counseling services. Instead of trying to meet with each of these identified students individually, you begin two groups on grief and lossâ?"one for students in kindergarten through second grade and one for students in third through fifth grades.
1. Your overall objectives for the groups: What did you want to accomplish?
2. The kinds of data you gathered to determine the groups' effectiveness.
3. Your collection and analysis methods for interpreting and understanding the data.
4. A presentation of your findings: What were your outcomes? Use graphs or charts to present your data.
5. An explanation of how you would use this data in planning future interventions.
Please include all references!