Actual, Ideal, and Expected Role Concepts of Secondary Counselors

Abstract

AbstractThis study investigated actual, ideal, and expected role concept perceptions of seventy-four Wisconsin secondary school counselors. The 50-item checklist of Schmidt (5) was used as the research instrument. Expected role, i. e., what counselors believed public expectations of their activities to be, did not differentiate itself from ideal role. Significant (.001) differences were found on ten of the fifty work activities contained in the checklist. Counselors indicated a desire to participate in more professional duties than they were then doing. Addition of more research activities was the paramount role alteration wanted.