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Increase in Counselling Communication Skills after Basic and Advanced Microskills Training
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Kuntze, Jeroen; van der Molen, Henk T.; Born, Marise P. – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2009
Background: Mastering counselling communication skills is one of the requirements that lead to the diploma of a registered European psychologist. The microcounseling method proves to be effective in training these skills. Aim: Research into the effectiveness of the microcounseling method often reports overall effect sizes only. The aim of this…
Descriptors: Counselor Training, Psychologists, Communication Skills, Microcounseling
Developing Math Automaticity Using a Classwide Fluency Building Procedure for Middle School Students: A Preliminary Study
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Axtell, Philip K.; McCallum, R. Steve; Bell, Sherry Mee; Poncy, Brian – Psychology in the Schools, 2008
To investigate the influence of an innovative math fluency intervention, 36 middle-school students were randomly assigned to either an experimental (the Detect, Practice, Repair [DPR]) or control condition (reading intervention). After covarying pretest scores, the DPR treatment produced a significantly higher (p = 0.016) adjusted mean (M) math…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Intervention, Psychologists, School Psychologists
Basic Skills Retention of Students in Selected Instructional Delivery Systems in an Urban Center.
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Crowe, Michael R.; Veach, June P. – 1986
Student participation was examined in three educational programs and their corresponding environments or settings to determine the relationships between situational and demographic variables and basic skills learning and retention. Subjects were secondary students in four high schools and two career centers in a large midwestern urban center. At…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Basic Skills, College Preparation, Educational Research
Educating Counselors in Vocational Guidance: The Process and the Outcomes in Oklahoma.
Oklahoma State Dept. of Vocational and Technical Education, Stillwater. Research Div. – 1991
The Vocational Inservice Program (VIP) for Public School Counselors in Oklahoma apprised counselors of the role of career development, vocational guidance, and vocational education and raised their awareness of the resources and opportunities available to them and their students. VIP was composed of three 2-day workshops that offered training for…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Career Development, Career Guidance, Counselor Attitudes
Analysis of Students' Basic Skills Performance in Selected Instructional Delivery Systems: Final Report.
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Crowe, Michael R.; And Others – 1986
A study examined various characteristics of learning environments that promote or retard the development of basic skills proficiency. Data on four school programs--vocational noncooperative, vocational cooperative, general education, and college preparatory--were collected in a repeated measure design via observations, testing, and interviews. A…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Basic Skills, Classroom Environment, College Preparation
Perception of Business and Industry: Basic Skills Necessary for Successful Employment Compared to Competencies of Entry Level Employees.
Junge, Denis A.; And Others – 1983
This study was conducted to assess business and industry's perceptions of the basic skills needed for entry-level successful employment. It also assessed business and industry's perceptions of the competencies that entry-level employees now have. Information was gathered via a basic skills questionnaire that was mailed to the personnel directors…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Business Communication, Communication (Thought Transfer), Education Work Relationship