شبكة المعلومات العربية التربوية

The role of the school counselor in the Saudi context is not clear. This study aimed to address the need to develop an assessment tool to contain school counselors' identified duties and responsibilities in the Saudi context. This self-report is built upon five elements: Counseling ethics, school counselors' characteristics, responsibilities, competence, and adherence to the legal code of ethics. In addition, information was gathered to extract the characteristics of the dimensions of school counselors from a questionnaire survey. Findings show that the reliability coefficient was comparable to stability in both methods (Alpha, Hash-half), and the validity's correlation was at a significant level. Finally, limitations and recommendations in this study are discussed to improve further research studying the role of school counselors in the Saudi context. (Published abstract)