This issue of Impact examines a variety of viewpoints, programs, issues, and concerns about accountability of guidance. Three articles are adaptations from speeches presented at the conference on Accountability and Pupil Personnel Work held at Michigan State University in the summer of 1971; they explore the importance of preserving "caring"…

This study was designed to examine the validity of the Cooperative Reading Comprehension Test (CRCT), Form 1A, for advisement purposes. During the period under study, February 1967 through September 1969, 1,020 people took the test, and 39 percent of those tested enrolled at Hofstra University. CRCT scores on the average differentiated those who…

The goal of the report is to identify, describe, and discuss some aspects of faculty advising that are little discussed between advisors and colleagues: source of confusion; roles; how to proceed with advising; keeping the relationship alive; special problems; informational advising; and models for advising. The concept and practice of an advising…

Steps in an outcomes-based counseling cycle are described, and examples are provided that illustrate the usefulness of an outcomes-based approach with "insight" as well as "behavioral" techniques for promoting counseling goals. Factors that may currently discourage the practice of outcomes-based counseling are considered, and…

Discusses research at Felician College which documents personality changes in the contemporary female, and especially in the married woman, who is found to be more achievement and politically oriented, with higher aspirations, seeking change, less deterred by failures, and more self-assertive. Implications for counseling staff are discussed.…

Our policy is an attempt to ensure that counselling services are seen as a total program with personal-social, educational, and career counselling receiving a balanced emphasis over a student's secondary school years. The three services are seen as integral components of the total educational experience of each student. (Author)

This paper asserts that helping students to clarify and commit to realizable learning goals increases learner motivation and retention. It is recommended that any adult English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) teacher should do some sort of "goals work" with their students and that program-wide strategies to address learner motivation and retention be…

The results support the premise that behavioral change can be initiated by elementary school counselors or school psychologists if they know what kind of behavior they want to change and have a planned procedure for doing it. (Author)

Discusses advantages and disadvantages (to the counselor) of stating objectives in terms of observable behavior; also problem of demonstrating that guidance objectives are part of general educational objectives. (Author)

The cumulative record represents a potential case study in miniature. If education is to continue verbalizing its concern for the individual student, it can prove this concern by providing a systematic procedure for insuring that the individual does not become an obscure generalization based on averages computed from groups. (Author)

Compared two levels of goal setting. In the first level adolescents were involved in setting goals for behavioral counseling. In the second level they were informed that goals were set, but were not involved. Results indicated greater degree of goal attainment and counseling satisfaction for participating pupils. (Author/JAC)

The single most critical problem in teacher education is the absence of any comprehensive fundamental model of pedagogy which is universally accepted as a point of extension for testing hypotheses, accumulating knowledge, and guiding practice. (MB)