This document discusses student follow-up services in guidance and counseling. Follow-up involves monitoring current and former students to evaluate the effectiveness of academic advising, counseling, and other interventions. It ensures students have learned appropriate behaviors and can identify weaknesses in the educational program. Follow-up takes the form of research, surveys, interviews and other techniques to determine students' progress after leaving school. The information obtained through follow-up can be used to improve curriculum, teaching, and guidance services.

1. By:
Jocel Ann D. Luzong
MAEd Guidance and Counselor

3. It is an integral part of guidance services.
It is concerned with what happens to
students while in school or after they have left
schools.
It is the appraisal of how counselees who
have been counseled, placed or referred or have
graduated are doing to determine whether further
assistance is necessary.

4. It refers to the formal and systematic
monitoring of the individual progress of current
students who have undergone academic advising,
counseling, referral, placement, or any special
intervention program. Returning students and
those who are in academic probation are also
monitored whenever needed.

5. A continuous monitoring program
designed to evaluate the effectiveness of the
intervention procedures in relation to student
progress & adjustments.
This service is undertaken as systematic
evaluation of whether the guidance service in
particular and the educational program in
general have satisfied the needs of students.

6. Follow up sessions are conducted among
students who are counseled, referred by faculty,
administrators and other university staff. The
follow-up service ensures that the student has
learned appropriate behaviors and decisions
regarding his/her problem or need.
- From one University in Mindanao

7. 1. To ascertain the progress and status of
students within the various classrooms,
courses and curricular areas.
2. To gain data which may identify
weakness in the various phases of the
school progress.

8. 3. To learn how former graduates are
processing.
4. To evaluate the effectiveness of the
school’s placement activity.
5. To learn why pupils leave before
graduation.
6. To discover grade levels at which most
dropouts occur.

9. 7. To obtain opinions concerning needed
modification of the curriculum in the
light of the experiences of former
pupils.

10. It can be extended to individuals who have
been counseled, referred, or placed.
Personal Follow -
Ups

11. Follow – Up
Studies
It is a placement related that can take the
form of research and evaluation when they are
conducted to determine: where the graduates went
after leaving the school; where drop – outs went;
how well graduates are doing in their jobs; the
percentage of those who go to college and where
they go.

12. Interview
Postcard – Survey
Questionnaire

13. 1.Conducting surveys
2.Use of phone
3.The use of follow – up
letters

14. Information obtained through
follow-up techniques can be used for
improving the curriculum stimulating
better teaching, increasing the value of
the guidance services and establishing
better college and community
relationships