The Degree of Educational Counselor's Practices related to their Required job Roles in Dealing with Students with Special needs at Public Schools

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to identify the degree of educational counselor's practices related to the required job roles in dealing with students with special needs at public schools as well as to identify the effect of gender, experience, and age in practicing these roles. The sample of the study consisted of 90 school counselors in public schools in the Ministry of Education in Jordan. The results revealed that the counselors obtained moderate mean scores in the level of practices of required roles in the total mean score, while they obtained the highest mean scores in providing services to students with special needs dimension. They obtained the lowest mean scores in the counselor's role in the measurement and evaluation dimension. The results revealed that there were significant differences attributed to experience only on the counselor's role in the measurement and evaluation dimension.