Provides rationale for and description of organizational efforts involved in infusing multiculturalism into curriculum of school counseling training program. Includes characterization of overall program, faculty resources, curriculum organization, and student characteristics. Also includes detailed case study of actual counseling interaction…

Examines a way in which the computer can be used to offer live supervision in the training of basic counseling skills. Explains how computer-assisted live supervisory feedback was integrated into a basic counseling skills training class at a medium-sized public southeastern university. Discusses setting up the computer, course design, and student…

Male (n=76) and female (n=58) white graduate students who were employed as managers rated job applicants from reading job descriptions and resumes. Respondents rated applicants more favorably for female sex-typed job, regardless of sex or race. Findings concerning male sex-typed jobs suggest that black women have two negative stereotypes that…

Describes a series of writing assignments in which entry level graduate students in a personality theory class wrote four short papers interpreting the personality of a character from a children's story or comic strip. Explains that each paper utilized a different theoretical orientation: psychoanalytic, dispositional, phenomenological, and…

Investigated ethical attitude changes in counselors in training (n=33) related to specific topics during 16-week, 2-credit counseling ethics course. Results indicated that significant attitudinal changes occurred related to professional ethics and self-awareness, dual relationships, impairments, and multiculturalism. (Author/NB)

Four studies examined role of philosophical commitments in directing preferences for types of counseling. First study provides partial support for relationship between epistemic commitments and preferences for types of counseling. Studies 2 and 3 extend findings, and study 4 provides tentative support for possibility that counselor trainees…

Female graduate students with female major professors gave significantly higher ratings to the quality of the interactions with professors, and to professors' concern for their welfare, than did female students with male major professors. No differences emerged on other aspects of student-major professor interactions. (Author/MSE)

Examines the use and influence of compliance-gaining strategies by graduate teaching assistants in the college classroom. Compares these power patterns to those of university professors. Indicates that use of behavior alteration techniques is significantly related to student affective learning. (SR)

Examined the internal consistency and factor structure of the Group Counselor Behavior Rating Form. Findings from 140 graduate students suggest a relatively high degree of internal consistency. Four factors (interventions, facilitative conditions, application of theory, and professionalism) were identified that accounted for 58.9 percent of the…

Explored the role of values in student affairs graduate education and professional practice by surveying nonteaching practitioners (n=34), teaching practitioners (n=19), and professors (n=14). Subjects supported values education as a major component of student affairs graduate programs. Most agreed it was important to define the essential values…

Devised method for evaluating the experiential elements used in teaching group counseling. Analyzed questionnaire administered to group theories class and group dynamics class. Findings suggest that, in general, the experiential strategies were perceived by students as useful in learning group counseling concepts. (Author/PVV)

Presented Black (n=80) and White (n=80) undergraduate and graduate female college students with set of materials depicting two women (same race as subject, different from subject, or mixed) as verbally aggressive. Subjects rated aggression of women; results indicated White subjects viewed all episodes as more aggressive than Black subjects.…

Describes a study of graduate students at Florida State University that was conducted to determine relationships between measures of cognitive learning style and online searching behavior of novice searchers. Results of the Learning Style Inventory (LSI) and other measures are discussed, and comparisons with other studies are made. (29 references)…

Presents an ethnographic study with graduate students leaving other careers for education to discover the meanings of the career change for those involved. Discusses the following types of students: (1) the homecomers; (2) the converted; and (3) the unconverted. For each type the initiating influences, mediating forces, and commitment are…

Female students in a graduate journalism program in Britain failed in a common attempt to counter sexist treatment during their training in this male-dominated profession resulting from the priorities of the school and demands of the program. (DM)