ategories--educational placement and job placement. This present proposal is concerned with educational placement. Some guidance counselors view placement as an event or events, and define placement services with a list of functions (completing transcripts, posting recruitment materials from colleges, maintaining a file of college catalogs, visiting with college representatives, and offering information about college entrance examinations). An alternate view, however, supports the concept of placement as a process (Tidwell, 1988, pp. 342-344). This position holds that, in order to have a satisfactory placement service, school guidance counselors must think of placement as a process.
School guidance services are increasingly being organized around the concepts of developmental theory, and those same concepts should be the foundation of an effective placement service (Lapan, 1993, pp. 444-451). There is a need to extend the definition of placement services to include intervention in instructional and guidance programs. The educational p
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