Describes the development and operation of the teaching-consultation program of the University of Kentucky Community College System. This program provides faculty members with an opportunity to analyze their teaching behavior and make changes by working with full-time faculty colleagues who act as consultants. (DB)

Compares the role of constructive criticism in research and teaching and offers suggestions to college teachers on using colleagues as critical friends who provide collegial consultation, both occasional and systematic, as well as for ongoing faculty development. Raises issues of freedom and control as they relate to common norms for good…

Teachers (N=20) described problems, goals, interventions, data collection, and consultation practices employed across prereferral, prereferral intervention, referral, and postreferral phases of service delivery for mildly handicapped students. Findings highlight teachers' difficulties with data collection and intervention practices. Implications…

Investigates whether self-efficacy perceptions pertaining to working with difficult-to-teach children could be increased for preservice teachers using vicarious experience and verbal persuasion. Experimental group viewed a videotape demonstrating behavior management procedures while the control group viewed a placebo video. Experimental group…

Describes how consultants, working with school personnel, can use an action research approach to implement a program of value-driven needs assessment. Presentation is focused on a collaborative consultation model of program evaluation. A case example illustrates the collaborative development of instruments for assessing the effectiveness of a…

This paper describes a small-scale research project carried out one year after the implementation of a consultation model of service delivery within an Educational Psychology Service. Following a series of interviews held with special needs co-ordinators, a hierarchy of development was identified, and conditions pertaining to this development…

School self-evaluation is receiving increasing attention in England, partly as a result of changes in the Ofsted inspection framework giving greater prominence to what schools can do to speak for themselves. The relationship between internal self-evaluation and external inspection was a theme in a high profile policy speech made by the Schools…

This article introduces a novel consultative method termed reconstitutive ethnography, considered useful for the in-depth description and analysis of the interaction between professional and client in the delivery of a health or social care program. The article contextualizes this method in process evaluation generally and specifically in what the…

The present report describes the psycho-educational services referral pattern in the school system serving both a permanent Bedouin town A and its vicinity in Israel's Negev desert. The subjects of the study were students in the school system in A between the years 1997 to 2002 (with additional data from 2004). The total number of referrals to…

The Group of Eight (Go8) welcomes the Government's commitment to developing a comprehensive research workforce strategy. Australia's research capacity and the continuing translation of research into policy, products and services is directly linked to the future productivity of the economy, social wellbeing, environmental outcomes and the nation's…

The American Indian Higher Education Consortium (AIHEC), comprising 34 American Indian tribally controlled colleges and universities, has undertaken a comprehensive effort to develop an "Indigenous Framework for Evaluation" that synthesizes Indigenous ways of knowing and Western evaluation practice. To ground the framework, AIHEC engaged…

As a result of an evaluation of Title IV programs commissioned by the Utah State Office of Education, this manual addresses the needs of government agencies in providing technical assistance, such as proposal and report preparation or budget management, to local education agencies. Emphasis falls on the funding of technical assistance services,…

Twenty-two mothers participated in a principle-oriented consultation group and then answered a number of questionnaires before and after consultation. Data show that the experimental group differed significantly from the control group on 13 out of 16 variables after consultation. (SE)

This article describes an investigation of consultant services rendered by school psychologists to teachers. Results indicated that consultants lacking in skills failed to identify consultee problems and never reached the stage of plan development and implementation. Consultants successful in identifying problems were able to solve those problems.…

Underachieving isolated students can be found in all schools, and can provide a good opportunity for counselors to demonstrate the value of teacher consultation. (Author)