School Counselors and the Disproportionality Dilemma: A Multilevel Analysis

Disproportionality;School Counseling;Counselor Referral;Disruptive Behavior;Critical Race Theory;Education

Brodar, Jennifer RMcDonald, Katrina Bell ;

Johns Hopkins University

关键词: Disproportionality;    School Counseling;    Counselor Referral;    Disruptive Behavior;    Critical Race Theory;    Education;   

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瑞士|英语

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【 摘 要 】

For decades, disproportionality has been explored by educational researchers in special education and school discipline. Researchers have devoted far less attention to disproportionality in school counselor referral. The present study examined referral to the school counselor for disruptive behavior to determine to extent of disproportionality in school counseling referral. An analytic sample (n = 9540) from the ELS:2002 dataset was used to calculated risk ratios and hierarchical generalized linear modeling (HGLM) was employed for multilevel analysis. Results show African-American and multiracial students have the highest risk of referral of students by race/ethnicity and African-American and multiracial students in special education have the highest risk for all students. In the multilevel analysis race/ethnicity was a significant predictor throughout each of the models. Finally, implications and directions of future research are discussed.