Reports on a study designed to assess the perceptions of principals, teachers, superintendents, science supervisors, and science education leaders (N=628) about the role of the science education expert. Findings indicate that the role of the science supervisor has emerged as a key element in the discussion of secondary science education. Lists…

Survey responses from 264 manufacturing workers revealed a significant relationship between job satisfaction and perceived accountability to coworkers and managers. Accountability was significantly positively related to trust in supervisors/managers. The only aspect of accountability that had explanatory power was manager and coworker awareness of…

Case studies of four British companies showed that management legitimacy and authority were negotiated along the axes of technical expertise and abstract knowledge. Employees required evidence of management competence, and structural indicators such as management degrees or courses did not confer unquestioned legitimacy. (Contains 62 references.)…

Respondents (n=158) from 23 institutional members of the Cooperative Education and Internship Association evaluated cooperative education/internship students' competence and supervision issues; 56% felt they were more difficult to supervise than regular employees but perceive their work-related skills to be the same or better; 63% were interested…

Explains why effective teachers need relationships of mutual respect and understanding with their supervisors. Makes suggestions for building relationships: understand administrators' objectives, pressures, strengths, weaknesses, and preferred styles; communicate needs clearly; and keep administrators informed. Describes incompetent types of…

Investigated effects of stressful job experiences and social support on burnout among doctoral-level counseling center staff (N=169). Analyses revealed that higher amounts of job stress were associated with higher levels of burnout; social support from supervisors and colleagues was associated with lower levels of burnout but did not serve a…

Presents Association for Counselor Education and Supervision's (ACES) "Standards for Counseling Supervisors" adopted by American Association of Counseling and Development's Governing Council, July 1989. Presents Standard's 11 core areas of knowledge, competencies, and personal traits that characterize effective supervisors. (Author/CM)

Project Transition screens, trains, and places welfare recipients in fast food restaurant jobs. Training focuses on employee responsibility for managers' expectations and on behavior that will raise those expectations of new employees. (SK)

Notes that supervisors are not automatically skilled in effective human relations practices. Considers concern with the interests, desires, and attitudes of employees to be the cornerstone of knowledge required to carry on a sound human relations program. Examines reasons for individual differences and components of the will to work. (Author/NB)

Discusses similarities between group and family modalities, then goes on to explore the application of training methods from family therapy supervision to group work. Reviews several family training models which may be useful for training group counselors and supervisors. (Author/NB)

Conducted two studies to assess dimensionality of supervision. Examined dimensionality and construct validity of Bernard's model using 15 doctoral trainees. Expanded and tested model in combination with other supervision model using 25 master's level and 23 doctoral level counselor trainees. Three dimensions emerged which were consistent in…

Discusses a unit on performance appraisals, including writing comments to support ratings, drawing conclusions concerning performance, and making recommendations to improve performance. Provides an assignment requiring students to complete an appraisal form. (SR)

According to interviews with 30 women in middle management, 4 factors pertinent to their success were educational credentials, hard work, mentors, and interpersonal skills. Barriers to career development were supervisors/directors, sex discrimination, lack of political savvy, and lack of career strategy. (SK)

Giving a school's best teachers the challenge of supervision will empower them to assume greater responsibility, decision making, accountability, and professionalism. Suggested guidelines for supervising teachers include holding an annual meeting with student teachers, preparing classes for student teachers, demonstrating good teaching and…

Clinical supervision stresses face-to-face encounters with individual teachers about a specific teaching/learning situation. The process incorporates the use of specific objective data forming the basis for collaborating and aimed at instructional improvement. The five stages are preobservation conference, classroom observation, data and strategy…