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A project designed to foster integration between middle and upper-middle socioeconomic status students on the one hand and lower SES students in need of special educational attention and enrichment on the other was initiated at the Gush Etzion Regional Elementary School in Israel. Two school counsellors were invited to serve as consultants to and evaluators of the project. The counsellors decided to adopt the consultation and program evaluation model suggested by Mason, DeMers & Middleton (1984) as a basis for their work. A qualitative analysis of the consultation and program evaluation indicates that the model employed facilitated an effective and efficient contribution by the counsellors to the success of the integration project, especially regarding the advancement of the lower SES population both educationally and socially.
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Katz, Y.J., Ben-Yochanan, A. Implementation of the Mason, DeMers & Middleton consultation and program evaluation model in an Israeli school integration project. Int J Adv Counselling 17, 117–127 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01407968
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