Some Impressions of Competency-Based Training Programs

This article presents some impressions gained after two years of involvement in a competency-based training program in the pupil personnel services area, and it raises questions concerning the major features of such programs. The article includes discussion of program goals, the instructional process, assessment of student progress, and student attitudes. The danger of competency-based training becoming another fad in education is considered, and possible causes of this are noted.     

Development of phonological, morphological, and orthographic knowledge in young spellers: The case of inflected verbs

This study was designed to simultaneously investigate the influence of phonological, morphological, and orthographic awareness skills on the ability to spell inflected verbs in structured spelling tasks. Children in grades 1, 2, and 3 (n=103) spelled inflected past and progressive tense verbs and completed awareness tasks. Developmental changes occurred in the ability to include the inflected ending, to spell the ending consistently reflecting the correct morphological unit, and to affix the ending using the correct orthographic pattern. The contributions of phonological, morphological, and orthographic awareness to spelling development varied across the three grades but were similar for each sub-component, suggesting a developmental relationship between the ability to spell inflected verbs and linguistic and orthographic awareness.     

Q-Sorting Gloria

The authors assessed differences in viewers' perceptions of a client (Gloria) as a function of treatment (i.e., client-centered, gestalt, rational-emotive) received. The stimulus material used was the film series, Three Approaches to Psychotherapy. Gloria was perceived differently as a result of the type of treatment received, although some of the differences were not statistically reliable. Implications of the findings are discussed.     

Expectations and Perceptions of the Role of the Guidance Counselor as Described by Students and Parents

This study compared the students' and parents' views with respect to both the perceived and the ideal role of the secondary school counselor. It was found that parents assigned higher ratings to both perceptions and expectations of counselors than did students, and both parents and students held higher expectations than perceptions of counselors. Apparently irreconcilable conflicts among idealized roles were found, which suggested implications for counselor training programs.     

Personality and Functional Specialty Preference of Prospective Counselor Educators

This study examined the personality needs of doctoral students in counselor education who preferred functional specialties as administrators or practitioners. The sample consisted of doctoral students in counselor education at 20 southern universities. Achievement, dominance, order, and social recognition needs, as measured by the Personality Research Form (PRF), were found to differentiate between the groups.     

The Counselor Educator Crunch Revisited: A Status Report

This article is the 3rd in a series of investigations into the supply and demand of qualified counselor educators for the oncoming millennium.     

Parabolic Teaching and the Furnishing of Realism in the Teaching of Business Studies

RESUMé

In a development of the case study method, a business course has been taught as a series of engineering business cases, with elements of realism engendered by the use of senior engineering managers as moderators of the case discussion. By this means, consideration of the various facets of the cases may proceed in an environment where comment and criticism derive from a lifetime of real experience. It has been found that crucial elements in the successful development of this course have been the identification of a suitable cadre of moderators, their briefing in the organization and evaluation of the case study presentation and discussion, and the assurance that their experience was shared around the group.

Un cours, constitué d'une serie de cas vécus de gestion d'enterprises à caractere technique est enseign eacute; et etudié par des groupes constitués jusqu' à 12étudients. L'element de realism est apporté par des directeurs de divisions techniques intervenant comme modérateurs dans la discussion du dossier. Ainsi, l'étude sefait dans un environnement ou les commentaries et les critiques proviennet d'une longue experience, et non pas simplement de théories en ce moment à la mode. On a trouve que leséléments vitaux dans le succes de ce cours ontété un choix méticuleux des intervenants, leur préparation a l'organisation et l' évaluation de la presentation et de la discussion du dossier, et l'assurance que leur experience soit partag ée au sein du groupe.