The Practice of Supervision: A Sociocultural Perspective

A sociocultural perspective for supervision practice uses the concepts of acculturation, apprenticeship, and reflective assessment to describe supervision in counselor education. Supervision can be viewed as an intersubjective process that revolves around solving ambiguous and unstructured problems; key features include the coconstruction of shared meaning, framed by a continuous cycle of reflection and action, and the emergence of a professional identity. Implications for research and practice are offered.     

Pluralism: Building Community for the 21st Century

Reproduced here is the presidential address delivered at the Association for Counselor Education and Supervision (ACES) luncheon, American Counseling Association (ACA, formerly American Association for Counseling and Development [AACD]) Baltimore Convention on March 28, 1992.     

Introduction of Process Life Cycle Inventory in Environmental Engineering Education

Environmental issues are usually included in process design and operation. Once mass and energy balances have been completed, the life cycle inventory (LCI) can be carried out with an environmental load balance. This paper discusses a methodology for developing this balance, which can be taught at the same level of chemical engineering fundamentals at which basic mass and energy balances are dealt with. The LCIs of electricity and steam produced by a co-generation unit and conventional plants are compared to illustrate the method.     

DIAGNOSING STUDENTS' ERRORS FROM THEIR RESPONSE SELECTIONS IN LANGUAGE ARTS

This set of studies examined the consistency of student response patterns on a test of language arts, as a first step toward designing a computerized adaptive test to diagnose errors. A diagnostic domain-referenced language arts test was designed so that the choice of response would immediately point to a specific misconception in pronoun usage. This direct correspondence between error and diagnosis was designed to facilitate classroom instruction and remediation. Analysis of students' response choices on matched items and analysis of students' rationales for selecting their responses showed that student behavior was not always consistent and could be used to diagnose some errors but not others.     

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