Toward Effective Computer Use in High School Science Education: Where to from Here?

It is suggested widely that the use of computer technology holds great promise for school science education. Such a suggestion is congruent with broader beliefs that implementation of new technology is a key to improving education. However, little is known still about computer use in science classrooms and its effects on students' learning. This paper draws on major findings from recent research, integrates these with theoretical perspectives from associated education literature, and proposes guidelines for orienting computer use in high school science classrooms. It is proposed that (a) pedagogy should be strongly informed by appropriate theoretical orientations, (b) the importance of models in science should be acknowledged in pedagogy and in software development, (c) developing students' metacognition during instruction involving computers should be focussed upon, and (d) teachers' and students' beliefs and epistemologies should be recognised as key factors in educational change involving computer implementation and use.     

Program Evaluation: A Potential Area of Expertise for Counselors

This article presents a rationale for including training in program evaluation in counselor education programs.     

A New Look at the Counselor Evaluation Rating Scale

This study reexamined the Counselor Evaluation Rating Scale (CERS) using confirmatory factor analysis. Results revealed a different factor structure when the instrument was self-administered.     

博比的一毛钱

博比在他家后院的雪地里站着,感到越来越冷。他没穿长靴,他不喜欢那玩意儿,准确地说是他根本没有。他穿的胶底运动鞋已经破了好几个洞, 起不了多少保暖的作用了。博比已经在后院里呆了差不多一个钟头了。他绞尽脑汁也想不出该送什么圣诞礼物给母亲。他一边摇头一边想:“没用的,即使我有了好主意又能怎样,我哪有钱?”自从三年前他的父亲去世以后,这个五口之家就陷入了困境。不是母亲没有想办法、没有努力,可家里还是入不敷出。她在医院上夜班,但她微薄的薪水仅仅能维持家庭的基本开支。     

The Protestant Work Ethic,Disability, and the Rehabilitation Student

Fifty graduate students in rehabilitation counseling were surveyed regarding their attitudes toward the Protestant Work Ethic (PWE) using the original and a modified form of the Bowling Green University Survey of Work Values. Results indicated that the students were more likely to endorse those aspects of the PWE reflecting the intrinsic value of work than those dealing with earnings, social status, and advancement. In addition, the students were found to generally hold the same PWE orientation for themselves as they did for disabled persons.     

Counselling, Culture and Conformity: Some Implications for the Education of Counsellors and Others Involved in Pastoral Care

This paper seeks to explore some of the implications that recent critiques of therapeutic language have for counselling and Pastoral Care. Are we in the midst of a creation of a more caring and emotionally intelligent society or in danger of losing individual autonomy and political power by the inadvertent construction of a 'fragile self'? Does this apparent valorization of the emotional become an emotionalism that destroys autonomy and undermines our power to think and act rationally? What are the implications of the increased acceptance of the need for emotional expression: does this in turn become new conformity where the private space of the individual is policed by counsellors in the name of the state? This paper supports the observations that the new cultural trend towards giving primacy to emotional expression can have deleterious political and social effects but seeks to distinguish counselling and psychotherapy from the 'therapism' of popular culture.     

A Response to “Counselor Education and the Psychology of More”

Joe Wittmer and Thomas Sweeney, Executive Director and Chairperson, respectively, of the APGA Council for Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational Programs, respond to the article, “Counselor Education and the Psychology of More” (Pipes, Buckhold, & Merrill, 1983), found elsewhere in this issue. The authors agree that Pipes et al. challenged the profession to examine the state of the art in counselor education, but that they seemed unaware of the rapidly moving changes occurring within the profession today.