Rate My Professor Wade Leuwerke

Leuwerke's scholarship centers on noncognitive factors influencing student success in educational settings, career development dynamics—including technology's role in career counseling, computer-assisted tools, outcome assessments, and online counseling ethics—and the roles, responsibilities, and perceptions of professional school counselors, with emphasis on college and career readiness. He created the Student Strengths Inventory, a noncognitive measure predicting college academic success and retention, adopted by dozens of institutions in the United States and Canada. Notable publications encompass peer-reviewed articles such as "Predicting Occupational Considerations: A Comparison of Self-Efficacy Beliefs, Outcome Expectations, and Person-Environment Congruence" (with P.A. Gore Jr., Journal of Career Assessment, 2000), "A Psychometric Study of the College Self-Efficacy Inventory" (with P.A. Gore Jr. and S.E. Turley, Journal of College Student Retention, 2005), "Informing Principals: The Impact of Different Types of Information on Principals’ Perceptions of Professional School Counselors" (with J. Walker and Q. Shi, Professional School Counseling, 2009), and "Predicting Engineering Major Status from Mathematics Achievement and Interest Congruence" (with S. Robbins, R. Sawyer, and M. Hovland, Journal of Career Assessment, 2004). He co-authored the textbook Connections: Empowering College and Career Success (with P. Gore and A.J. Metz, Macmillan Learning, 2015). Professionally, he has collaborated with federal agencies on executive and career coaching, career development firms evaluating assessment tools, and higher education institutions addressing retention and program effectiveness. Leuwerke is a member of the Iowa Behavioral Sciences Licensure Board.