Burnout and Counselor Practitioner Expectations of Supervision

The authors assessed counselor expectations of supervision and counselor burnout. A sample consisting of 120 members of the Oregon Personnel and Guidance Association completed the Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI) and the Counselor Supervision Inventory (CSI).     

Reevaluating the Politics and Research of School Choice

This article addresses the ongoing conflicts over the effectiveness of school choice in America's educational system. After discussing the ideological foundations of the school choice movement, I analyze four controversies where the research done to evaluate school choice programs was hotly debated and inconclusive. The central holding of the paper is that these disputes are indicative of an ideologically saturated policy environment, in which opposing factions are far too eager to either condemn or support a school choice program before it has fully matured. I conclude by encouraging scholars and policymakers to examine factors beyond achievement, such as democratic participation and involvement, when considering school choice as an educational reform.     

Relationship Between the Client's Moral Development Level and Empathy of the Counseling Student

Empathic responses of counseling students with high and low moral development were compared. Both groups responded more empathically to a client whose moral development was lower than their own.     

Relating Science to Engineering: Employing a Materials Approach

The development of manufactured goods is highly dependent on their basic materials properties. In all aspects of the sciences, materials science and engineering have both a direct and indirect influence on the final properties and performance of manufactured products. It is only during the later years of high school study that aspects of science describing materials behaviour become relevant to later studies in engineering. Students must attain a basic understanding of scientific principles to be able to master the rigours of tertiary engineering studies. A new system of teaching and learning science, with examples drawn from basic principles of materials behaviour, is shown to be commensurate with these requirements. It is our responsibility as educators to develop graduates who are effective in the workplace and understand the relevance of materials to engineering.