This chapter briefly describes a model for comprehensive guidance programs developed originally by Gysbers and Moore (1974, 1981) and later refined and updated by Gysbers and Henderson (2000). It is presented here as an example of a current and widely used student-centered program in the schools that is specifically designed to facilitate students…

This article posits three subsystems in the classroom ecology: "opportunity structure,""support structure," and "reward structure." The implementation of an ecological approach to student development will require the preparation of a professional with quite different competencies and interests than has been the case. (Author)

Article is concerned with a model for school system evaluation. The usefulness of the indices from this model depend on their stability, and this study presents evidence related to their stability when pupils and factors related to time are considered as sources of error. (Author/RK)

Advising systems based on undergraduates as academic advisors have two inherent problems: they underestimate the importance of student-faculty interaction, and they promote a limited view of the goals of academic advising. Benefits and components of an advising model are discussed. (MLW)

Describes an instructional improvement program to help faculty become aware of and adapt their instructional strategies to the developmental and learning characteristics of students. (Author/CHC)

A Discrepancy Evaluation Model is used to assess how effectively the career development needs of University of Virginia students are being met. (Author)

The planning process used in developing a school district master plan for career guidance and counseling is described. (Author)

Using M. R. Weisbord's model of organizational diagnosis, researchers developed the Student Organization Environment Scales to measure students' perceptions of the psychosocial environment or climate of college student organizations. Development of the instrument is described and estimates of its reliability and validity are reported. Describes…

Traces scholarly constructions of basic writers' identities. Asks what those students who are labeled basic writers are accomplishing in their speech and writing. Offers a speculative model for analyzing basic writing student discourse. Uses that model to examine the language used in a basic writing classroom. Reviews the implications of such work…

The reflective judgment model offers a rich context for analysis of science and science teaching. It provides deeper understanding of the scientific process and its critical thinking and reveals fundamental connections between science and the other liberal arts. Classroom techniques from a college chemistry course illustrate the utility of the…

This article challenges the assumption that a continuum of learning opportunities appropriate for exceptional persons is possible when the concept of normal distribution is used. It proposes an alternate model, a bull's eye, to accommodate the open-ended potential of the gifted population. (Author/DB)

Describes the development of a framework for minority, specifically Chicano, student participation in predominantly white colleges and universities. Development involved analysis of interviews, observations, and documents. The framework posits minority students as cultural workers who actively fight their marginalization while seeking a synthesis…

Making self-authorship a goal of an interdisciplinary multisemester general education program shows great promise for meeting desired undergraduate learning outcomes for citizen-learners. (Contains 1 table.)

This article presents an analysis of case study data from a project evaluating Personal Development Planning (PDP) at a large post-1992 university in England. The study was undertaken as part of a strategy of encouraging schools to build on existing experience while at the same time ensuring consistency with new national guidelines for the…

The A.I.M. (Avondale Integrative Model) Program of Avondale School District in Auburn Hills, Michigan, is a developmental, language-based, preschool program, combining federally funded Head Start and district-funded Pre-Primary Impaired programs. The program is designed to utilize a developmentally appropriate curriculum in order to successfully…