Gathering evidence on what works best is key to designing holistic guidance services for individuals and the labour market. Traditional learning and career pathways are being replaced by more dynamic, 'patchier' routes and shorter job tenures. Fast-changing and more complex learning and working contexts draw more attention to continuous learning…

The definition of crisis is a sudden difficulty that occurs in a person's life or at an institution. Negative and spontaneous developments taking place at educational institutions can also be defined as a crisis. The quality of education is determined by the success or failure of crisis management. The basic tasks of guidance services are crisis…

Problem Statement: Comprehensive, developmental guidance and counseling programs are vital to the achievement of excellence in education for all students. The purpose of the guidance curriculum is to help all students develop basic life skills in the areas of personal/social, career planning, and academic development. Although the counselors'…

In this article, we report on a multiyear consultation project between a consulting team based in the United States and the Ministry of Education in Trinidad and Tobago. The project was initiated with a request for training in counseling for secondary school students but ended with the training of personnel from the Ministry of Education in…

This article describes the results of a qualitative case study evaluating a research mentorship program in community care settings in Ontario, Canada. The purpose of the program was to build evaluation and research capacity among staff of community care agencies through a mentorship program. Data were collected through in-depth, semi-structured…

The development of European Community administrative authority has greatly influenced the development of an evaluation culture among the southern and central member states of the European Union. The present case study from Spain provides an example of this diffusion through the use of an empowerment evaluation approach to build evaluation capacity…

This research study was implemented within the subject headquarters of a regional center, an organization responsible for security cooperation in Europe and Eurasia. The focus of the study was the center's program of security education. This program was designed to support evolving security objectives of foreign countries in order to increase the…

This paper reports on research into how effective non-statutory guidance has been in managing the primary science curriculum in England. A small-scale qualitative study was used to elicit the views of teachers, local education authority advisors, an Ofsted inspector and a policy-maker. The findings indicate that the guidance is influencing the…

Study reports pupils' views of the guidance system in Scotland, considers pupils' potential to contribute to school self-evaluation and improvement, and what their involvement in evaluation might mean for the future development of guidance provision. Highlights the importance of the pupils' perspective and identifies fundamental issues which have…

The purpose of this visit was to observe, analyze, and make recommendations concerning educational guidance programs in Finland. A general description of the Finnish educational system is given. The greatest amount of guidance activity by qualified guidance workers is external to the school system and administered by a different national ministry.…

The impact of a continuing teacher guidance system was studied. The system provided to teachers consisted of in-school guidance, written guidance, and in-service teacher training. The guidance system was developed in connection with the more comprehensive project of developing a new mathematics curriculum for junior high schools in Israel. (DWH)

Grade seven students participated in a developmental guidance program designed around writing two journal entries a week for the school year. Students wrote about individual tasks and issues. Results indicate the writing process and class discussions which followed seemed to facilitate emotional, social, and academic growth. (Author)

Counseling and guidance at higher education institutions in the Federal Republic of Germany are examined. Characteristics of the educational scene, student problems, the development of counseling and guidance, and a test model of a counseling and guidance system being implemented and evaluated at the University of the Saarland are discussed.…

The aim of this study was to consider the extent to which guidance provision in secondary schools in Scotland met the guidance needs of pupils and their parents. The approach taken was to focus on experiences and perceptions of both consumers and providers of guidance, to relate their views to guidance processes, and to judge the situation in…

This document contains an internal evaluation of guidance services in Scarborough, Ontario schools undertaken to achieve the following: (1) to investigate what guidance services should be provided to Scarborough students (by reviewing curriculum documents, surveying involved persons, and reviewing the success of the service); and (2) to assess how…