Evaluation of Aspects of the Guidance Programs in the Salt Lake City High Schools: An Opinion Survey
Date of Award:
5-1952
Document Type:
Thesis
Degree Name:
Master of Science (MS)
Department:
School of Teacher Education and Leadership
Department name when degree awarded
Education
Committee Chair(s)
Dr. Skidmore
Committee
Dr. Skidmore
Committee
John C. Carlisle
Committee
D. H. Stone
Abstract
A significant phase of the modern high school curriculum is the program of specialized guidance services to pupils. The importance of providing personalized services as a means of aiding individuals to grow toward social and occupational adequacy is becoming more and more definitely recognized by educators today. Monroe (1), in discussing the literature in this field, gives the following definition of personnel services:
"As differentiated from instruction and the business affairs... student personnel work refers to all activities undertaken or sponsored by an educational institution, aside from curricular instruction, in which the student's personal development is the primary consideration. Student personnel work embraces a philosophy of education which places major emphasis upon development of the individual as a whole--his intellectual, social, moral, emotional, physical, religious, and aesthetic development."
Functions of the high school guidance program, as listed by Monroe (2), include three phases:
1. Legal Background or Setting
Compulsory education
Child-labor legislation
2. Quantitative Aspects
Child accounting
School census
Age-grade progress records
Other statistical studies
3. Qualitative Aspects
Cumulative individual records
Attendance problems
Psychological and psychiatric services
Field services (social work, etc.)
Adequate health services: diagnostic and remedial
Placement services: educational and occupational
Follow-up on placement services
Although the teacher specializes in subject instruction, with guidance experts performing the more technical aspects of the pupil personnel program, authorities in the field generally agree that cooperative planning and frequent evaluations serve to enrich and expand the program of pupil personnel.
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Recommended Citation
Poulter, Liliuo, "Evaluation of Aspects of the Guidance Programs in the Salt Lake City High Schools: An Opinion Survey" (1952). All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023. 1836.
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