The goals and content of a practicum course in reading instruction are discussed. The opportunity to tutor a slightly disabled reader twice a week is provided. Subsequent class sessions are spent on the problems arising from the semiweekly tutoring sessions. Consultations with supervisors occur each day. Perceptive teaching, which leads the tutors…

This study was designed to enhance self understanding in counselor trainees. Research focused on the effect of Self Understanding Groups on practicum enrollees. Two groups, one with 18 practicum students, and another group enrolled in practicum and also involved in Self Understanding Groups, were formed. The criterion measure for the effect of the…

A six weeks training program was conducted for counselors, psychologists, and social workers to improve their understanding of the disadvantaged, their counseling skills, their information of college admissions, and their ability to identify and utilize positive forces in the environment. Two courses were held: advanced counseling theory and…

To determine whether a relationship existed between ACT composite scores and academic success in courses in Accounting I, Quantitative Business Analysis I, and Physical Science at Rhode Island Junior College, random samples of ACT scores of about 70 students in each course were studied. To establish predictability, correlation techniques were…

This is a study of educational accountability at Richmond Technical Institute. The primary purpose of this study was to devise a systematic method in which the institute could become more accountable, both externally to Richmond County and internally to its students. The paper examines the problems of developing an accountability model. In…

To determine whether students who indicated success on the job evaluated the overall Cooperative Education Program at Los Angeles Valley College differently from those students who did not indicate job success, data were collected from 249 students who had completed the program (41 percent female and 59 percent male). Questionnaires were answered…

To determine whether the scholastic averages of resident students at York College, Pennsylvania are significantly different from those of commuting students, 200 resident students were compared with 200 commuting students. The groups were randomly selected and matched in terms of sex, college class, marital status, and intelligence. Scholastic…

To determine if the rate of pay for part-time instructors at Compton Community College was low or average, a survey was conducted of the community colleges in California as to the pay of part-time instructors teaching lecture-type classes only. A survey questionnaire was sent to the Deans of Continuing Education in the 98 California community…

Because most graduate geography students will engage in professional teaching activities, the Teaching Preparation Program of UCLA's department of geography is viewed as an important part of graduate training. The program, co-directed by a graduate student and faculty member, is available to all graduate students on a voluntary basis and consists…

This final report covers a three-year demonstration program that served primarily as a practicum for students in a leadership training program. In addition, some research was conducted. The demonstration portion of the leadership training program essentially provided for two basic classes of 16 three- and four-year-old preschool disadvantaged…

The rationale, methods, problems and results of developing a library of video-taped counseling sessions are described. The tapes are intended to capture the counselor-counselee interactive process, so that counselor trainees might see and hear what had taken place rather than be dependent on what they thought had taken place. Such tapes would…

One hundred twenty-six counselor education students, differentiated according to counselor education status and sex, were studied for differences in attitudes toward self, most people, most clients, and purposes as a counselor. Practicum students completing their educational program were more positive in their counseling-related attitudes than…

Simulated Administration of a Regular Guidance Operation (SARGO) is a program for the training of directors of guidance and pupil personnel services. The objective of SARGO is to prepare directors of guidance services to: (1) prepare a written description of a pupil personnel program; (2) interact with a school administrator to clarify role…