An Experimental Study of the Effect of Educational Guidance on a Selected Group of High School Sophomores

The relationship of academic advisement to the scholastic performance of failing college students.

“…The few published studies which are concerned with the relationship of counseling to the academic performance of failing students have reported equivocal results. Studies directly relevant to the present experiment have indicated that counseling may be either instrumental in (2,5,8,12,14,16), or unrelated to (3,4,10), improvements effected in the academic achievement of potentially failing college students.…”

The Evaluation of Vocational and Educational Counseling: A Critique of the Methodology of Experiments.

“…Most colleges and universities drop unsatisfactory students on the basis of their average grades, and reward those who achieve high marks. There are two methods of experimental design applicable: the comparison of the student's grade average before and after counseling (2,4,8,19,24,43); or a comparison of the average grade of counseled students with that of non-counseled students who have been matched for such characteristics as age, sex, level of ability, size and type of high school, and high-school grades (13,15,20,27,41,42).…”

An objective evaluation of counseling.

“…the same group state that at the end of their college career there was if no difference between the two groups, because academic failure appeared f later for the experimental group. § Use of the "spoon-feeding" type of counseling is shown in the studies f of Cowley (3) with Ohio State Freshmen football players, Newland and | Ackley (7) with high school sophomores and Williamson (9) average and use the subjective composite criteria. In criticizing the techniques for evaluating counseling, Williamson and Bordin (12) feel grade point average is a poor criterion because of the dissimilarity in pattern of subjects taken.…”