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Student Success Skills
The Student Success Skills program was developed and tested
by Drs. Brigman, Webb and Campbell, who teach in the Department of
Counselor Education at Florida Atlantic University. The SSS model
includes a group counseling and a classroom guidance curriculum designed
to help students develop critically important cognitive, social and
self-management skills.
The SSS program is designed for students in grades 4-10.
Four recent studies found that students improve in math,
reading and social skills when they participate in the SSS program.
For an overview of the Student Success Skills program click below:
Student Success Skills
PowerPoint
Overview of
Research on Student
Success Skills
Key findings of four recent research studies involving school counselor
led groups and classroom guidance focused on Student Success Skills (SSS)
are provided below. The four studies combined, included 50 school
counselors in thirty-six schools, working with over 1100 students in grades
5, 6, 8 and 9. The students mirrored the diverse student population of
Florida.
- FCAT
math scores improve for approximately 86% of SSS students. The average
increase was 30 scale score points.
- FCAT
reading scores improve for approximately 78% of SSS students. The
average increase was 25 scale score points.
- The
SSS students had gains comparable to an intensive FCAT tutoring
program. The tutoring program involved 44 hours of tutoring with
certified teachers (two hours per week for 22 weeks). The SSS counselor
led groups involved 9 hours ( 45 minutes per week for eight weeks
followed by four 45 minute booster sessions spaced one month apart).
The cost to replicate the tutoring program is $272 per student each
year. The cost to replicate the SSS program is $6 per student for the
first year and zero $ for subsequent years.
- Teacher
ratings of student behavior improved for approximately 70% of SSS
students. The average gain was 20 percentile points. The nationally
normed behavior scale focused on academic, social and self-management
skills. The same skills areas are involved in the SSS program.
- Over
90% of principals surveyed supported school counselors implementing the
SSS approach.
- Each
school counselor could reach 100 students per year with only one hour
per day focused upon the SSS program. For every 100 counselors trained
10,000 students receive the SSS program per year.
For an independent review of research on the Student Success Skills
program click below:
Umass Research Brief on Student
Success Skills Article
For more information contact:
Greg Brigman, Ph.D.
Atlantic Education Consultants
(561) 451-9719
sssaec@aol.com
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