School counselor preparation necessitates that new counselors are trained to
build a comprehensive school counseling program, which means understanding how
to use data to develop, implement, and evaluate their interventions. In spite of
their school counseling training, first-year school counselors may feel
unprepared to use data and lack the experiential accountability skills and
advocacy resources to impact systemic student outcomes. This article describes
an action research training model for prospective school counselors and proposes
that early and frequent exposure to data-driven decision making closes the gap
to practitioner research.
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