Examined effects of preparer (leader versus other personnel) and modality (group versus individual) on expectations about therapy, anxiety, group and individual functioning, and leader functioning in group therapy preparation program. Findings from 32 graduate students revealed that preparation can have positive effect on clients' beliefs,…

Examined effect of specific training for counseling students (n=28) in preparing them to work with alcoholic clients. Results indicated that training session specifically designed for working with alcoholic populations significantly increased objective knowledge base of counseling students, although single training session was not enough to…

Authors describe how participation in doctoral-level career counseling practicum has influenced their perceptions of relationship between career and personal counseling, attitudes toward career services, and career interventions skills. Concludes that, to enhance profession of career counseling, education programs need to energize students to…

Seven experiments studying the relations among different measures of visible and informational persistence after a physical stimulus involving 52 undergraduate and graduate students rely on state-trace analysis to develop a theory of these two types of persistence in the context of visual-information processing. (SLD)

Investigates whether hope is related to anxiety about statistics. Participants in the study included 109 graduate students from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds enrolled in courses on statistics and educational research methods. Results indicate that hope appears to be related to statistics anxiety. Contains 11 references. (ASK)

Reports data from three consecutive classes of first- year optometry students at the Southern California College of Optometry, who were tested preceding and following completion of a patient communication course. Findings indicated that students improved their ability to respond to patients and were better able to discriminate among various levels…

Describes a study that focused on 21 graduate students enrolled in a hypermedia in education class who constructed concept maps on the term hypermedia. The purpose of the study was to determine whether students created concept maps differently based on their Kolb learning styles and levels of hypermedia knowledge. (Author/LRW)

Examined 60 Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-Third Education (WISC-III) protocols administered by graduate students in training to obtain preliminary data on the frequency and types of administration and scoring errors that examiners commit. The five most frequent errors included failure to query, failure to record response verbatim,…

Contends that the academy has forgotten the origin of the dissertation and has turned it from a substantive contribution of scholarship to an instrument of evaluation. Argues that continuing to treat the dissertation in this way maintains an unequal power hierarchy of "masters" and initiates--it should be seen as the first serious scholarly…

In this study multicultural counseling training contributed significantly to the variance in ratings of a culturally sensitive counselor. No significant contribution was made to the variance in ratings of the culturally insensitive counselor. Possible explanations and implications of these results in multicultural counseling supervision are…

A study of 178 graduate students in organizational behavior assessed their learning style with Kolb's Learning Style Inventory. Factors that affected effective teamwork included motivation, attitude toward group work, learning style, and valuing other people's learning styles. (SK)

Describes an instructional design process, the Gagne, Briggs, and Wager (1992) Events of Instruction, and applies it to a topic to demonstrate its utility. Suggests that directors of graduate teaching assistant programs can use the information to integrate instructional design training into existing programs for teaching assistants. (EV)

Describes what occurs when trainees and supervisors encounter a lack of consensus in supervision. The pattern of interaction was characterized by negotiation and collaboration. Supervisors and trainees collaborate to produce a presentation of the trainee as a competent clinician and a cooperative trainee. Supervisors identify deficiencies and…

Presents communication procedures for supervisors and therapy trainees that have been developed as a result of the use of computer technology. Using the computer as a supervision tool, therapy can be influenced by the supervisor while minimizing disruption. Successes and pitfalls in a master's level practicum course in family therapy are…

Analysis of journal entries of 13 doctor of education students confirms the usefulness of journals for reflecting on and connecting academic learning and experience. Different writing styles (analytic, extracting, affective) had different learning outcomes. Course-feedback style had little benefit. (SK)