Non-Technical Education in the Electrical Engineering Department of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology

The Electrical Engineering Department of the Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) has included a non-technical education program in its curriculum for more than 10 years. General ideas supporting this program as well as a brief summary of the content are given in the paper.     

Counseling Effectiveness and Trainee Helping Qualities: Another View

This study addresses the importance of client satisfaction as an index of counseling effectiveness and also examines the relationship between trainee personality characteristics and supervisor ratings of trainee performance. Results indicated that a significant inverse relationship existed between trainee levels of self-acceptance and client's ratings of counseling satisfaction. Supervisor's ratings of the trainee's performance and progress in supervision were also inversely related to trainee levels of self-acceptance. Agreement was found between supervisor's ratings of trainee performance and client satisfaction with counseling. Implications of these results are discussed in terms of counselor training programs and future research designs.     

Culture and the Common School

This essay addresses the question: given the flattening out of the cultural hierarchy that was the vestige of colonialism and nation‐building, is there anything that might be uniquely common about the common school in this postmodern age? By ‘uniquely common’ I do not mean those subjects that all schools might teach, such as reading or arithmetic. Nor do I mean just subjects that might serve a larger public purpose, but that might be taught in either publicly supported or privately supported schools. Rather I mean subjects that speak to the shaping of a child's identity as a member of a common community in the way that the common school was intended to create when its commission was to develop and maintain a single national or colonial identity and loyalty. I argue that there is a kind of connectivity that common schools should foster even as the nation‐building and colonial past is rejected, and that this connectivity is what is common about the common schools. I argue that any concept of culture that merely flattens out the normative dimension of educating is deficient as an educational theory, and propose a conception of culture that is educationally productive.     

成年人身体活动变化过程的理论建构及其测量工具的研究

介绍了一个近期由中国和德国锻炼心理学家们共同构建的、针对成年人身体活动变化过程的理论——“从无活动到保持活动的四步骤模型”(Four Steps from Inactivity to Activity;FIT模型),并初步检验了基于FIT模型编制的测量工具——《成年人身体活动调查问卷》.研究认为,FIT模型系统地描述了中德两国成年人身体活动变化过程的阶段特点,以及与行为阶段转化密切相关的健康体质因素和社会心理环境的影响因素.所用调查问卷在两国成年人样本中均具有良好的心理测量学信、效度水平.今后可以在此基础上进一步开展系列实证性研究,以推动FIT模型在中德两国的发展.     

Improved Career Decision Making: Integration Into Counselor Education

The Improved Career Decision Making program, developed by the National Occupational Information Coordinating Committee, is a comprehensive program to introduce counselors to the use of career information in the counseling process.