Introduction: Peer-led health coaching is a realistic and sustainable way to support health behaviour change on university campuses. Motivational Interviewing (MI) is an effective framework to guide behaviour change conversations in peer health coaching sessions. However, research on the perceptions of peer coaches who provide health coaching…

Asserts that graduate training, as well as the policies of journals and granting agencies, supports an approach to research that promotes scientific understanding but does not produce effective clinical treatment. (Author/JM)

This chapter of "The Best of the Best of ERIC," Volume 2, contains 17 summaries of documents and journal articles on alternative schools, all of which are indexed in either "Resources in Education" or "Current Index to Journals in Education." The materials included deal with various aspects of this topic, such as reasons for success or failure of…

The author presents a model for inservice teacher training entitled the Process Oriented In-Service Experience (POISE) and attempts to identify changes occurring in the process movement and dynamics of interaction as reflected in attitudes and behaviors of teachers participating in this modified, small-group, process learning experience under…

This document investigates the Wayne State Experimental Project in the Region 9 Teaching Center of Detroit (WEXPO-9) which is designed as a cooperative program to better prepare inner city teachers by introducing them to student teaching (in the inner city) in their junior year; to assess the influence of preparation in concepts of teaching and…

This document presents a descriptive typology created to characterize the diverse program approaches of the Follow Through Planned Variation Experiment. Program approaches are described with respect to two orthogonal dimensions: (1) Program Elements (Instructional, Service, Participatory and Employment) with the major focus on instructional…