Guidance of American Youth

The academic performance of students counseled at a university counseling service.

“…Several studies have shown that counseled students tend to earn better marks than noncounseled students (Blackwell, 1946;Kirchheimer, Axelrod, and Hickerson, 1949;Rothney and Roens, 1950;Ward and Tyler, 1947;and Williamson and Bordin, 1940). Others have found better performance among counseled students as measured by the criterion of graduation from college (Faries, 1955;Toven, 1945;and Watson, 1961).…”

Chapter IV: The Counseling Function

“…Among the more interesting of these studies are those by Bartlett (5), Guthrie and O'Neill (22), Rothney and Roens (39), and Serene (42). Rothney and Roens attempted an ambitious followup of two groups of 129 students, one counseled and the other not counseled, over a span of five junior and senior high-school grades.…”

Consistency and wisdom of vocational preference as indices of vocational maturity in the ninth grade.

“…Wisdom or realism of vocational preferences has been used as a criterion of the effectiveness of vocational guidance programs in many studies, e.g., Sparling (1933), Kefauver and Hand (1941), Stone (1949), Rothney and Roens (1950), Hoyt (1955), Rothney (1958), andHewer (1959). Indices of realism are often used by counselors in judging students' and clients' need for guidance.…”