School Counselors Use of Deliberate Practice and Accountability

This study examined the degree and frequency to which school counselors' utilized accountability measures and deliberate practice and their impact on perceived levels of counselor self-efficacy, as well as, on perceived levels of student academic success. It assessed the relationship between formal training in the American School Counseling Association Model (ASCA) or other counseling model and likelihood of using ASCA principles, the relationship between years of work experience and use of accountability measures and deliberate practice, relationship between use of accountability measures and deliberate practice on perceived levels of counselor self-efficacy, and the relationship between use of accountability measures and deliberate practice on perceived levels of student academic success; that is the degree to which counselors believe their services impact students' outcomes.