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Publication Date: 2019-Dec
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The Impact of Race, Gender, and Socioeconomic Status on School Counselors' Alternative Learning Program Placement Decisions: An Experimental Study
Dameron, Merry Leigh; Foxx, Sejal Parikh; Flowers, Claudia
Urban Review: Issues and Ideas in Public Education, v51 n5 p699-723 Dec 2019
As a form of exclusionary discipline, student placement into an alternative learning program (ALP) may lead to negative outcomes for students (e.g., lower academic achievement, attrition, involvement in the juvenile justice system; Anderson and Ritter in Educ Policy Anal Arch 25(49):1-33, 2017). School counselors are called to address inequitable policies, procedures, and conditions that may limit students' personal/social and academic development, college access, and career readiness (ASCA, The ASCA national model: a framework for school counseling programs, 3rd edn. American School Counselor Association, Alexandria, VA, 2012). Additionally, school counselors should be unbiased in their decision-making (ASCA, Ethical standards for school counselors. American School Counselor Association, Alexandria, VA, 2016). The researchers utilized a true experimental design to examine the impact of student race (African American or White), gender (male or female), and socioeconomic status (SES; economically advantaged or disadvantaged) on practicing school counselors' (N = 334) decisions to place students in ALPs for disciplinary reasons. A factorial analysis of variance revealed no statistically significant differences in school counselors' likelihood of placing students in ALPs for disciplinary reasons based these student demographic factors. The study also revealed a statistically significant positive relationship between school counselors' belief in a just world, as measured by the Global Belief in a Just World Scale (GBJWS; Lipkus in Personal Individ Differ, 12(11): 1171--1178. https://doi.org/10.1016/0191-8869(91)90081-L, 1991), and likelihood of referring students to ALPs for disciplinary reasons. Implications for school counselors and educational stakeholders are discussed.
Descriptors: School Counselors, Race, Gender Differences, Socioeconomic Status, Decision Making, Student Placement, Ethics, Nontraditional Education, Outcomes of Education, Equal Education, Discipline Policy, Standards, Factor Analysis, Counselor Attitudes, Social Justice, Referral, Measures (Individuals), Discipline
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