Designed three-factor experiment to evaluate potential for improving first-session performance of six trainee-therapists as measured by postsession client ratings (n=48). Rather than through standardizing therapist behavior by using training manual beforehand, therapist effects were handled through statistical control. Found that more frequent…

Presents a standardized curriculum that can be applied to a variety of counselor supervisor training programs. Includes suggestions for implementation and research. Notes this guide is based on current knowledge, composed of the limited theoretical and empirical literature and supplemented by working group members' experience with supervision.…

Describes a study that was conducted with graduate students to verify empirically that the conventional spatial arrangements of diagrams illustrating relationships among concepts are interpreted consistently and to examine the role of spatial arrangements in establishing meaning. Implications of results for graphic and instructional designers are…

Studied five students to investigate whether socially distributed cognition can be used in design of computer system to support collaborative writing. Data show "group" talk is bound with procedural, executive, and substantive talk and a system that allows for only text-based forms of communication is likely to limit ways in which talk acts as…

Investigated potential to overestimate value of computer-generated vocational evaluation reports. Ninety graduate students in rehabilitation participated in 2 x 4 crossed design in which students read evaluation reports that varied by writing quality and by how they were generated. Significant main effects for both quality and origin were found,…

Using data collected from 214 tenure-track faculty women and 276 women graduate students, explores a model for predicting the reporting of sexual harassment. Feminist ideology and frequency of harassment were significant predictors of perceived offensiveness, which directly affected the likelihood of an incident being reported. (CJS)

Describes the difficulties encountered in a graduate class called "Composition, Literature, and Literacy," whose students came from two very different constituencies (essentially theorists and practitioners). Discusses how the teacher and students probed their own rhetorical situation and emphasized, rather than ignored, the conflict…

Describes a model for the structured group supervision of counselor trainees. Discusses preliminary research on the model's effectiveness. Presents five phases of Structured Group Supervision model: request-for-assistance statement, questioning period and identification of focus, feedback statements, supervisee response, and optional discussion…

Two surveys (1979, n=129; 1989, n=117) give responses from graduate students who contributed to "Adult Education"/"Adult Education Quarterly," 1969-88. Total of 113 students published 128 articles; 70 were sole author; 46% of all articles were by graduate students. Nine departments accounted for 60% of articles. Males and…

Responses from 176 of 280 business administration faculty and doctoral students showed that research was very important to obtain success (tenure). However, they did not see the benefit of pursuing a full professorship or excellence in teaching and service in terms of the current academic award structure. (SK)

Describes two federally funded intervention projects in School Psychology Program at University of Utah, one designed to train school psychologists to work more effectively with children diagnosed as autistic and one designed to train school psychologists to be intervention-oriented practitioners. Fifty-four graduate students were funded using…

Presents conceptual framework for understanding mentoring based upon the evolving capacity for interdependence that undergirds human development. Applies Kegan's developmental framework to mentoring relationships between academic women and explores their potential for enabling a mutual capacity for interdependence. (NB)

Reviews ethnicity in the family therapy training literature, concluding that the literature on training for a multiethnic perspective in marital and family therapy is limited, conflicting, and not empirically based. Describes an original exercise that teaches counselors-in-training the significance of ethnicity to family functioning. (Author/NB)

Examined effects of self-disclosure and competitiveness on closeness of friendship for male graduate students (n=100). Subjects completed the Close Friendship Scale, Competitive-Cooperative Activities Scale, Jourard Self-Disclosure Questionnaire, and demographic questionnaire. Results indicated inverse relationship between competitiveness and…

Parent Role Questionnaire (PRQ), recently developed instrument to study individual perceptions of parent role, was piloted, revised, and studied psychometrically. Results from first (n=118) and second (n=94) administrations of test to graduate students in school psychology revealed that PRQ had relatively high internal consistency, moderate…