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Author(s):Carey, J. & Whiston, S.
Title:Report of the national panel for evidence-based school counseling: Outcome research coding protocol and evaluation of Student Success Skills and Second Step
Source:http://www.umass.edu/schoolcounseling/PDFs/EBP/...
Date:2003
Organization:National Center for School Counseling Outcome Research
Short Description:This evaluation report examines interventions for improving social skills, study skills, and meta-cognitive skills, and for violence reduction through improvement of pro-social skills.
Annotation:This evaluation report examines interventions for improving social skills, study skills, and meta-cognitive skills, and for violence reduction through improvement of pro-social skills. The evidence-based panel examines multiple studies of each program.
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National evaluation of Upward Bound: Summary of first-year impacts and program operations
How educators in three states are responding to standards-based accountability under No Child Left Behind
State and Local Implementation of the No Child Left Behind Act
Are teachers prepared for racially diverse schools? Teachers describe their preparation, resources, and practices for racially diverse schools
Impacts of school-based career interventions on NCDG outcomes
Cramming: The effects of school accountability on college-bound students
Giving students a chance to achieve: Getting off to a fast and successful start in grade nine
Using EPAS™ to evaluate school-based intervention programs: GEAR UP
Do Current State Standards and Assessments Reflect College Readiness?: A Case Study
The turnaround challenge: Why America's best opportunity to dramatically improve student achievement lies in our worst-performing schools
The ASCA national model
What your community can do to end it's drop-out crisis: Learnings from research and practice
College readiness brief: Academic rigor: At the heart of college access and success
Removing roadblocks to rigor: Linking academic and social supports to ensure college readiness and success: Annotated bibliography
School improvement by design: Lessons from a study of comprehensive school reform programs
Paying for college success: An introduction to the performance-based scholarship demonstration
Growing What Works Database
Coalition for Evidence-based Policy
From soldier to student: Easing the transition of service members on campus
Promoting partnerships for student success: Lessons from the SSPIRE Initiative
Evaluation of evidence-based practices in online learning: A meta-analysis and review of online learning studies
The school environment and adolescent well-being: Beyond academics
The misplaced math student: Lost in eighth-grade Algebra
Assisting students struggling with reading: Response to Intervention (RtI) and multi-tier intervention in the primary grades
The evaluation of enhanced academic instruction in after-school programs: Findings after the first year of implementation
The role of school counselors in serving students with disabilities
The Pangloss Index: How states game the No Child Left Behind Act
Building a better bridge: Helping young adults enter and succeed in college
Strategic designs: Lessons from leading edge small urban high schools
Case studies of leading edge small urban high schools
Rewarding persistence: Effects of a performance-based scholarship program for low-income parents
CAPE Network: Universal Encouragement Program (UEP) Guidance Assessments
Indiana's Response to Intervention (RTI)
Roadmap to RTI: Applying response to intervention in preschool settings
National Association for College Admission Counseling: Statement of prinicples of good practice
Grade retention: Achievement and mental health outcomes
Smart options: Investing the recovery funds for student success
Barriers to college attainment: Lessons from Chicago
Charter schools in eight states: Effects on achievement, attainment, integration, and competition
National Center on Response to Intervention (RTI)
After-school toolkit: TIps, techniques, and templates for improving program quality
Early warning indicator systems
A state policymaker's guide to expanding learning time
Key considerations for serving disconnected youth
Some states still leave low-income students behind; Others make surprising gains
America's Promise Alliance dropout prevention summits
The college keys compact: 2011 catalog of effective practices: Programs and practices that expand options for students from low-income backgrounds
Title I and high schools: Addressing the needs of disadvantaged students at all grade levels
State policies to improve the effectiveness of school principals
Four steps to finishing first: An agenda for increasing college productivity to create a better educated society
Designing STEM pathways through early college: Ohio's metro early college high school
Getting ready for college: An implementation and early impacts study of eight Texas developmental summer bridge programs
We serve, too: A toolkit about military teens
What gets measured gets done: Adding college-course completion to K-12 accountability systems
Advocacy in action toolkit
Determinants of students' success: The role of advanced placement and dual enrollment programs
Men of color: Ensuring the academic success of Latinos in higher education
The economic value of opportunity youth
Preparing for change: A national perspective on common core state standards implementation planning
Evaluate mentoring programs
Equity scorecard: A process for building institutional capacity to educate young men of color
State high school tests: Changes in state policies and the impact of the college and career readiness movement
Black male student success in higher education: A report from the national black male college achievement study
States need to fill in the gaps on expanded learning time: Troubling lack of detail seen in No Child Left Behind waiver applications
Make me a match: Helping low-income and first generation students make good college choices
The importance of being in school: A report on absenteeism in the nation's public schools
Balancing passion and practicality: The role of debt and major on students' financial outcomes
College 101 courses for applied learning and student success
Lifting Latinos up by their 'rootstraps': Moving beyond trauma through a healing-informed framework for Latino boys and men
2012 National survey of school counselors
Forgotten youth: Re-engaging students through dropout recovery
College and career readiness: A quick stats fact sheet
Professional college knowledge: Re-envisioning how we prepare our college readiness workforce
The condition of education 2012 (Report)
Teaching and learning in the era of the Common Core: The Students at the Center series ebook
Middle school counselor's guide: NOSCA's eight components of college and career readiness counseling
Weighing the evidence: A conversation with community college presidents on using research to support student success outcomes
Using assessment results: Promising practices of institutions that do it well
Overcoming the poverty challenge to enable college and career readiness for all: The crucial role of student supports
Can scholarships alone help students succeed? Lessons from two New York City community colleges
High school improvement: Indicators of effectiveness and school-level benchmarks
Learning what it takes: An initial look at how schools are using early warning data and collaborative response teams to keep all students on track to success
The effects of learning communities for students in developmental education
The role of student learning outcomes for institutional accountability and transparency
Effective practices for developing the literacy skills of english language learners in the english language arts classroom
Conflicted: Faculty and online education, 2012
Completing college: A national view of student attainment rates
The role of community-based organizations in the college access and success movement
Structure in community college career-technical programs: A qualitative analysis
The causes and consequences of attending historically black colleges and universities
Does more money matter? An introduction to the performance-based scholarship demonstration in California
Easing the transition from combat to classroom: Preserving America's investment in higher education for military veterans through institutional assessment
Compendium of practices to increase Latino college completion 2012: Profiles of organizational efforts
Third grade literacy policies: Identification, intervention, retention
A matter of degrees: Promising practices for community college student success
Reviving magnet schools: Strengthening a successful choice option
Sustained positive effects on graduation rates produced by New York City's small public high schools of choice
It takes a whole society: Opening up the learning landscape in the high school years
Launching early college districtwide: Pharr San Juan-Alamo's "college for all" strategy
Student learning plans: Supporting every student's transition to college and career
The impacts of state performance funding systems on higher education institutions: Research literature review and policy implications
Are big-time sports a threat to student achivement?
Redefining your success: The role of adolescent connectedness in demonstrating mentoring impact
Opportunity road: The promise and challenge of America's forgotten youth
Trends in Chicago's schools across three eras of reform: Full report
More time for learning: Student participation in extended day programming at the UCCS Donoghue campus during the 2009-10 school year
Reading on grade level in the third grade: How is it related to high school performance and college enrollment
Good policy, good practice II: Improving outcomes and productivity in higher education: A guide for policymakers
Striving for student success: A model of shared accountability
Digital learning and technology: Federal policy recommendations to seize the opportunity-and promising practices that inspire them
Whose schools? Our schools! Get involved: An action guide for parent participation in education
From remediation to acceleration: Early lessons from two Philadelphia back on track schools
Ramp-up to Readiness: The Ramp-up goals
2004/2009 Beginning postsecondary students longitudinal study
The relevance of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in the college completion agenda
A better measure of skills gaps: Utilizing ACT skill profile and assessment data for strategic skill research
Principal-counselor toolkit
Putting it all together: Supporting continuous improvement in education through strategic use of data systems
How four-year colleges and universities organize themselves to promote student persistence: The emerging national picture
Early college designs
Scaling community college interventions
The mission of the high school: a new consensus of the purposes of public education?
The midwest challenge: Matching jobs with education in the post-recession economy
Missed opportunity: How New York can do a better job of reconnecting youth on public assistance to education and jobs
Five ways education pays initiative
Integrating suburban schools: How to benefit from growing diversity and avoid segregation
State education agencies as agents of change: What will it take for the states to step up on education reform
ASCA National standards for students
Increasing student engagement through faculty development: A practice brief based on BEAMS project outcomes
Building Educated Leaders for Life (BELL)
Gallup student poll national report
The economic impact of the achievement gap in America's schools
Race to the top: Promising approaches to assisting the lowest-performing schools
The accountability illusion
Educating English language learners at the high school level: A coherent approach to district- and school-level support
A critical mission: Making adolescent reading an immediate priority in SREB states
Connext Postsecondary Assessment System
Realizing the promise: How state policy can support alternative certification programs
Beyond test scores: Leading indicators for education
When Johnny (or Janelle) comes marching home: National, state, and institutional efforts in support of veterans' education
Ready to succeed: Changing systems to give California's foster children the opportunities they deserve to be ready for and succeed in school
Educational outcomes for children and youth in foster and out-of-home care
Building a college culture: Needs, goals, principles. and a case study
Critical conditions for equity and diversity in college access: Informing policy and monitoring results
The Equity Project
Promising instructional reforms in developmental education: A case study of three Achieving the Dream colleges
The role of nonacademic factors in college readiness and success
Creating postsecondary pathways to good jobs for young high school dropouts: The possibilities and the challenges
The early assessment program: Helping high school students meet college expectations in mathematics and English
Creating change one step at a time: Efforts to improve college access and success in Indiana
Pushing the envelope: State policy innovations in financing postsecondary education for workers who study
The impact of postsecondary remediation using a regression discontinuity approach: Addressing endogenous sorting and noncompliance
Dropouts, diplomas, and dollars: U.S. high schools and the nation's economy
Out of many, one: Toward rigorous common core standards from the ground up
Supporting success: Improving higher education outcomes for students from foster care—A framework for program enhancement: Version 2.0
Economic and noneconomic outcomes for GED credential recipients
Combat2College: Facilitating college success for combat veterans
College readiness for all toolbox
Transparency by design: Principles of good practice for higher education institutions serving adults at a distance
Bringing off-track youth into the center of high school reform: Lessons and tools from leading communities
Prevention of disproportionate special education representation using response to education (RTI)
Assessing school engagement: A guide for out-of-school time program practitioners
Falling off track during the transition to high school: What we know and what can be done
Putting middle grades students on the graduation path: A policy and practice brief
The Everyone Graduates Center
The 2008 Brown Center report on American education: How well are American students learning
Building student success from the ground up: A case study of an Achieving the Dream college
Investing early: Intervention programs in selected U.S. states
Improving adolescent literacy: Effective classroom and intervention practices
Educational Policy Improvement Center
Prioritizing the nation's dropout factories: The need for federal policy that targets the nation's lowest performing high schools
Postsecondary opportunity programs: Defining and improving an educational policy innovation
Making connections: Dimensions of student engagement (2009 CCSSE Findings)
National Dropout Prevention Center/Network: Model Programs Database
No Excuses University Network
Georgia Graduation Coach Initiative
Benchmarking the success of Latina and Latino students in STEM to achieve national graduation goals
Socioeconomic stratification of community college transfer access in the 1980s and 1990s: Evidence from HS&B and NELS
Linking secondary and postsecondary systems: Lessons from Indiana
What works clearinghouse: Middle school math
Unmasking the effects of student engagement on college grades and persistence
A framework and recommendations for federal action on secondary school reform
Building a culture of evidence in community colleges: Lessons from exemplary institutions
Not black and white: Making sense of the United States Supreme Court decisions regarding race-conscious student assignment plans
Feeling the Florida heat? How low-performing schools respond to voucher and accountability pressure
Do support services at community colleges encourage success or reproduce disadvantage?
Preventing student disengagement in middle schools and keeping students on the graduation track in high-poverty middle-grades schools: Early identification and effective interventions
Education in the age of accountability: A research focus of the Urban Institute
Quality counts 2008
The 2007 Brown Center report on American education: How well are American students learning?
Balancing acts: How high school counselors view risks and opportunities of student loans
Beating the odds: An analysis of student performance and achievement gaps on state assessments: 2005-06 School year
Easing the transition to high school: Research and best practices designed to support high school learning
Graduate education: The backbone of American competitiveness and innovation
Establishing an effective guidance and advisement system
Meeting the high-school challenge: Making after-school work for older students
A science-based framework for early childhood policy
Affirmation and discovery: Learning from successful community college developmental programs in Texas
ACT high school profile report: The graduating class of 2007 (National)
Beating the odds: The real challenges behind the math achievement gap - and what high-achieving schools can teach us about how to close it
Windows on achievement and inequality
Missouri guidance and placement lessons: Applying employment readiness skills and the skills for on-the-job success
Understanding Latino parental involvement in education: Perceptions, expectations, and recommendations
The enhanced reading opportunities study: Early impact and implementation findings
Learn and Serve America
College For Every Student
Study Skills
Best practices in recruiting and retaining minority graduate students
The impacts of regular Upward Bound: Results from the third follow-up data collection
Qualified teachers for at-risk schools: A national imperative
Who's left behind? Immigrant children in high and low LEP schools
Building pathways to success for low-skill adult students: Lessons for community college policy and practice from a longitudinal student tracking study
The progress of education reform: Dual enrollment
Liberal education outcomes: A preliminary report on student achievement in college
Indiana youth group
Rigor plus support: How science teachers use literacy techniques to get students ready for college
U.S. student and adult performance on international assessments of educational achievement
Helping equip teachers to answer students' questions on college knowledge
Making good on a promise: What policymakers can do to support the educational persistence of dropouts
Focus on families: How to build and support family-centered practices after school
Immigrant students and secondary school reform: Compendium of best practices
Connecting the dots: Multifaceted analyses of the relationships between student engagement results from the NSSE, and the institutional practices and conditions that foster student success
Indian students and college preparation
Middle Start
Moving on: State policies to address academic brain drain in the South
Beyond NCLB: Fulfilling the promise to our nation's children
Preparing students for success in college
The dream deferred: Increasing the college preparedness of at-risk students
Identifying and implementing educational practices supported by rigorous evidence: A user friendly guide
Transition from high school to postsecondary education and employment for students with disabilities
Pathways to college access and success
Primary progress, secondary challenge
Child, adolescent, family intervention science initiative (CAFISI)
Improving educational outcomes for students with disabilities
A new core curriculum for all: Aiming high for other peoples' children
Peer tutoring and mentoring services for disadvantaged secondary school students
Questions that matter: Setting the research agenda on access and success in postsecondary education
Transitions to college: From theory to practice
The link between high school reform and college access and success for low-income and minority youth
The governance divide: A report on a four-state study on improving college readiness and success
Rising to the challenge: Are high school graduates prepared for college and work
From the prison track to the college track: Pathways to postsecondary success for out of school youth
The school to college transition: Challenges and prospects
How curriculum influences college persistence in Indiana and the nation
Child poverty and intergenerational mobility
Unfulfilled promise: The dimensions and characteristics of Philadelphia's dropout crisis, 2000-2005
Project U-turn
Cost perceptions and college-going for low-income students
Ed.gov Open Innovation Portal
Can I get a little advice here? How an overstretched high school guidance system is undermining students' college aspirations
The 2009 Brown Center report on American education: How well are American students learning?
Common Standards: The Time Is Now
Beating the odds: Analysis of student performance on state assessments and NAEP: Results from the 2008-09 school year
A blueprint for reform: The reauthorization of the elementary and secondary education act
Expanded time, enriching experiences: Expanded learning time schools and community organization partnerships
Evaluating student success interventions: Principles and practices of student success
Strengthening institutional research and information technology capacity through Achieving the Dream: Principles and practices of student success
Expanding access and opportunity: The impact of the Gates Millennium Scholars program (2010 Update)
Transition and alignment: Two keys to assuring student success
Mind the (other) gap!: The growing excellence gap in k-12 education
Processes and challenges in identifying learning disabilities among English Language Learner students in three New York state districts
Comprehensive school reform: Meta-analytic evidence of black-white achievement gap narrowing
Best practices in statewide articulation and transfer systems
Top gainers: Some public four-year colleges and universities make big improvements in minority graduation rates
Afterschool and workforce development: Helping kids compete
Federal higher education policy priorities and the Asian American and Pacific Islander community
College and university commitments to student access and success: An overview of institutional postsecondary opportunity programs
A contexualized reading-writing intervention for community college students
The rising price of inequality: How inadequate grant aid limits college access and persistence
Understanding the K-12 common core state standards in mathematics
Effectiveness of fully online courses for college students: Response to a department of education meta-analysis
Preventing future high school dropouts: An advocacy and action guide for NEA state and local affiliates
Making graduation a priority
Career and college planning needs of ninth graders: As reported by ninth graders
Afterzones: Creating a citywide system to support and sustain high-quality after-school programs
Advancing by degrees: A framework for increasing college completion
Dollars and sense: How "career first" programs like Year Up benefit youth and employers
Raising the roof: Explore California public school data
Evidence-based dropout prevention programs
Improving teacher quality: Here's how (guidebook)
Higher education web portals: Serving state and student transfer needs
Beyond the bubble: Technology and the future of student assessment
Hours of opportunity: Lessons from five cities on building systems to improve after-school, summer school, and other out-of-school time programs
Finishing the first lap: The cost of first-year student attrition in America's four-year colleges and universities
Gaining ground: High schools closing the achievement gap
On track to complete? A taxonomy of beginning community college students and their outcomes 3 years after enrolling: 2003-04 through 2006
Effective dropout prevention and recovery: State dropout policy profiles
Strong foundations: The state of postsecondary data systems
Distinct subgroups of former foster youth during young adulthood: Implications for policy and practice
Call for action: Transforming teaching and learning to prepare high school students for college and careers
Building capacity to promote college- and career-readiness for secondary-level English language learners: Policy brief featuring Austin, Texas
An extreme degree of difficulty: The educational demographics of urban neighborhood high schools
College access challenge grants: Including adult learners, strengthening student success
Building a grad nation: Progress and challenge in ending the high school dropout epidemic
National Alliance of Concurrent Enrollment Partnerships (NACEP)
PreK-Grade 3: Which reading and literacy practices matter most?
The shapeless river: Does a lack of structure inhibit students' progress at community colleges?
Online learning: Does it help low-income and underprepared students?
P-20 governance
Forward thinking teens: The effects of college costs on adolescent risky behavior
ESEA Briefing Book
Education and the economy: Boosting state and national economies by improving high school graduation rates
Capacity building to diversify STEM: Realizing potential among HBCUs
Institutional variation in credential completion: Evidence from Washington State Community and Technical colleges
Credit recovery and proficiency-based credit: Maintaining high expectations while providing flexibility
The educational experience of young men of color: A review of research, pathways, and progress
Expanding options for struggling students and out-of-school youth: State financing of education pathways
PISA 2009 results: What students know and can do: Student performance in reading, mathematics and science
Everybody ready for school: How can we ensure high quality early childhood programs?
All accounted for: What do we want out of our afterschool & summer school programs?
Turning the tide: Five years of Achieving the Dream in community colleges
Stretching the school dollar: A brief for state policymakers
Making the grade: Texas early college high schools prepare students for the future
Beyond basic skills: State strategies to connect low-skilled students to an employer-valued postsecondary education
Staff report to the NACAC Assembly: Early notification study
Opening doors to student success: A synthesis of findings from an evaluation at six community colleges