Significant correlations were obtained between student ratings of the effectiveness of the guidance program and Personal Orientation Inventory scales of Time Competence and Spontaneity. Thus, the more actualizing the counselor as measured by POI, the more likely the students were to assign high ratings to the school guidance program. (Author/DEP)

Four viewpoints concerning the cost of a computerized guidance program are explored: (1) that of the software publisher; (2) the business manager at the agency which plans to computerize; (3) the technical expert, or hardware specialist; and (4) the counselor. (CT)

Reports a study concerned with the effectiveness of Idaho guidance programs provided by guidance counselors and agriculture teachers. (SB)

A systematic approach to statewide evaluation of career guidance, counseling and placement. (Editor)

Middle level students have unique needs that can be met by a school advising program. Outlines the goals and a timeline for implementing an advisory program along with nine components essential to a successful guidance and advisory program. (MLF)

Administrators in early childhood schools and centers can make a difference in children's lives and learnings. As child advocates, administrators must think through their own theoretical framework on which to base planning for school or center, guidance for teachers, analysis of program effectiveness, parent involvement, and utilization of pupil…

This study examined the implementation of forgiveness as a guidance programme with Hong Kong Chinese adolescents in the classroom setting. The forgiveness programme was based on Enright's process model of forgiveness. The effectiveness of the programme was evaluated, using both quantitative and qualitative methods. Findings showed that it is…

This book is a product of a research effort to identify exemplary elementary school guidance and counseling programs and practices across the United States. It consists of program descriptions from 134 programs in 40 states, Puerto Rico, and the District of Columbia. Section 1 gives the background of how programs were identified and selected.…

Since 1988, the Association of California Community College Administrators (ACCCA) has sponsored a statewide mentor program intended to prepare junior-level administrators for senior positions and to create a more diverse pool from which future college leaders can be drawn. This article is an initial report of this program. As the report…

We evaluated the role that social capital among teachers plays in affecting teacher pedagogy in the context of comprehensive school reform (CSR). CSR implementation was designed to change school- and classroom-level processes, including organization and governance, curriculum and instruction, professional development (PD), and parental…

Blended learning is an approach to instructional design that seeks to maximize learning potential by applying the most effective form of instruction for a given program element. The term "blended learning" should not refer to just the mixing of training delivery methods (as it is often defined) but to the orchestrated application and integration…

This report discusses one of the consistent problems in school counseling and guidance-that of furnishing concrete evidence concerning the effects of counseling and guidance activities on the development of children. The following causal factors are discussed: (1) the difficulty of pinning down abstractly stated goals in an operational manner at…

This study was designed to assess the relative effectiveness of one available guidance program at the elementary level, Developing Understanding of Self and Others (DUSO). The program is appropriate for young children, ages 5 through 8, and attempts through listening, inquiry, discussion, and role playing to help children better understand…

This issue of Policy Insights draws on findings from WICHE's report Accelerated Learning Options: Moving the Needle on Access and Success, to lay out some of the important policy issues that decision makers might consider when adopting new state policy related to accelerated learning or modifying policies already in existence. The publication…

This study examines the role of language in reducing poverty in Botswana through adult-education programs. Because language is the medium through which human beings communicate and grow intellectually and socially, it should form the basis of any discussion involving the relation between development and education. In order best to respond to…