A Profession at Risk: A Comparison of School Social Workers and Attendance Workers.

Autor/in	Kurtz, P. David
Titel	A Profession at Risk: A Comparison of School Social Workers and Attendance Workers.
Quelle	(1985), (23 Seiten)Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Attendance Officers; Cost Effectiveness; Elementary Secondary Education; Employee Attitudes; Employment Qualifications; Job Analysis; Job Performance; Salaries; School Social Workers; Student Personnel Workers; Work Attitudes; Georgia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Kosten-Nutzen-Analyse; Kosten-Nutzen-Denken; Arbeitnehmerinteresse; Employment qualification; Vocational qualification; Vocational qualifications; Berufliche Qualifikation; Arbeitsanalyse; Work performance; Arbeitsleistung; Entlohnung; Gehalt; Social work in school; Schulsozialarbeiter; Work attitude; Arbeitshaltung
Abstract	Although school social workers (SSW's) are one of the few resources in the schools primarily designated to prevent and remediate personal and social problems that contribute to underachievement and deviant student behavior, many SSW's in Georgia are being replaced by noncertified attendance workers. Some educators claim that these attendance workers perform similar functions and cost less than certified social workers. In a study examining this claim, mailed surveys covering 10 areas of worker tasks or responsibilities were completed by 57 attendance workers and 124 certified SSW's. The ten areas covered were school attendance, assessment of children, direct services to children, services to teachers, services to parents, special education services, leadership and planning, liaison to community, liaison to human service agencies and the juvenile court, and child abuse and neglect services. The results of the survey revealed that masters level school social workers attached significantly greater importance to most of the service areas and more frequently performed tasks in most of the areas than did attendance workers. The results also showed that the majority of attendance workers' salaries were equivalent to SSW's, suggesting no economic advantage to hiring attendance workers rather than certified social workers. (NRB)
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC