Download or read book A Comparative Study of the Perceptions of School Counselors and Principals Toward the Use of Collaboration in School Settings written by Beverly L. Booker and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study analyzed school principals and schools counselors use of collaboration in school settings. It compared school counselors and school principals' perception of the use of collaboration to promote student academic achievement. It further explored the factors perceived as promoting and impeding collaboration as well as persons with whom the school counselors and school principals collaborated. The subjects' reasons for collaboration were noted and their conceptual understanding and stated framework of collaboration were compared with the definition of collaboration as articulated in current research literature. Significant similarities of conceptual understanding and the framework for collaboration among the sampled population of school counselors and principals were found. Both school counselors and principals sampled in the study identified collaboration as "two or more parties working together toward a common goal to plan and implement a strategy for a problem or issue for the benefit of students." Their implementation of this definition did correlate with the relevant professional literature (American School Counselor Association 1998; Welch and Tulbert 2000). They also reported that school counselors and school principals do not collaborate with each other on a significant level. They ranked school social workers, school psychologists, and community agencies low among persons with whom they collaborated. Both sets of practitioners confirmed academic advisement and scheduling as being the primary reasons for collaboration, with issues of discipline being ranked second.