Current Research

For overview of the Student Success Skills program click below:

Student Success Skills
PowerPoint

 

Current Articles

RTL and SSS Reference List

RTL Research
     Brigman, G. & Webb, L. (2003)
     Brigman, G., Lane, D., Lane, D., Switzer, D. & Lawrence, L. (1999)


SSS Research
     Webb, L., Brigman, G. & Campbell, C. (2005)
     Brigman, G. & Campbell, C. (2003)
     Campbell, C. & Brigman, G. (2005)  

For an independent review of research on the Student Success Skills program click below:
Umass Research Brief on Student Success Skills Article

The following is an excerpt from a letter by John Carey, Director, Center for School Counseling Outcome Research.  This letter accompanied a research brief on a Student Success Skills article in April, 2004.

Dear School Counseling Colleagues,

Hello again from the Center for School Counseling Outcome Research at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

We are very pleased to be distributing the attached Research Brief summarizing Brigman and Campbell's important outcome study.  We believe that this study is critically important for two reasons, First, it demonstrates that school counseling interventions focused on developing students' skills that have been demonstrated by research to be related to academic achievement can have a significant impact on state achievement test scores.  Second, this study sets a new standard for quality in school counseling outcome research and demonstrates the potential role of university-public school collaborations in addressing  the profession's "evidence gap".

 Brigman and Campbell's work has important practical implications and should be read by all school counselors, guidance directors, school counselor educators, and counselors in training.  It is an important contribution to the profession's ability to identify evidence-based practices and an important model for needed research.

Please feel free to reproduce, share and distribute this brief.  Please feel free to reprint this (and all future) briefs in newsletters, state journals etc.  Please let us know if you reprint a Research Brief-it helps us document.

The Center for School Counseling Outcome Research is dedicated to improving the practice of school counseling by developing the research base that is necessary for responsible and effective practice. The Center provides national leadership in the measurement and evaluation of the outcomes of school counseling interventions and programs. In the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, the Center helps K-12 leaders and practitioners use research findings and methods to improve school counseling practice by enabling them to set standards, establish benchmarks, implement evidence-based interventions, measure student learning outcomes, and evaluate program effectiveness.