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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Steen, Sam; Vasserman-Stokes, Elaina; Vannatta, Rachel – Journal for Specialists in Group Work, 2014
This article explores the effect of web-based journaling on changes in group cohesion within experiential growth groups. Master's students were divided into 2 groups. Both used a web-based platform to journal after each session; however, only 1 of the groups was able to read each other's journals. Quantitative data collected before and…
Descriptors: Counselor Training, Graduate Students, Student Journals, Group Unity
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Steen, Sam; Henfield, Malik S.; Booker, Beverly – Journal for Specialists in Group Work, 2014
This article presents the Achieving Success Everyday (ASE) group counseling model, which is designed to help school counselors integrate students' academic and personal-social development into their group work. We first describe this group model in detail and then offer one case example of a middle school counselor using the ASE model to…
Descriptors: Group Counseling, School Counseling, School Counselors, Models
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Steen, Sam – Journal for Specialists in Group Work, 2011
This exploratory study linked academic and personal development within a group counseling intervention. A pre-test post-test research design compared social skills, learning behaviors, and achievement with a convenience sample and control group of students from three elementary schools. For the treatment group, grade point average in Language Arts…
Descriptors: Individual Development, Student Development, Group Counseling, Adolescents
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Steen, Sam – Journal for Specialists in Group Work, 2009
This article describes a group counseling intervention promoting academic achievement and ethnic identity development for twenty fifth grade African American elementary students. The Multigroup Ethnic Identity Measure (MEIM) scores of students participating in the treatment group improved significantly over those in the control group. Implications…
Descriptors: African American Students, Ethnicity, Group Counseling, Grade 5
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Steen, Sam; Bemak, Fred – Journal for Specialists in Group Work, 2008
Nine ninth graders at risk of school failure participated in a supportive group counseling intervention. Students' GPA in the treatment group did not significantly improve when compared to a control group. Additionally, the treatment group completed the Critical Incidents Questionnaire (CIQ) at the conclusion of the intervention, and a follow-up…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Intervention, Grade Point Average, At Risk Students
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Steen, Sam; Bauman, Sheri; Smith, Julie – Journal for Specialists in Group Work, 2008
An online survey about the group work training experiences of school counselors was completed by 802 members of the American School Counseling Association (ASCA). Most respondents had one course in group work; a minority had the opportunity to observe or co-lead groups with children and/or adolescents as part of their training. Qualitative…
Descriptors: School Counseling, School Counselors, Counselor Training, Training Methods