Constructivism, Dewey, and Academic Advising

Ethics in Academic Advising

Academic advisors confront many ethical problems and benefit from being able to draw on a system of ethical principles. Such principles, to be credible, should be philosophically defensible and not merely reflective of individual tastes. This article proposes such a set of principles, shows how they can be used to cope with ethical dilemmas, and explains why such dilemmas cannot be prevented. T...

A Multi-Agent System for Academic Advising

The evolution of the Internet into the Global Information Infrastructure has led to an explosion in the amount of available information. Realizing the vision of distributed knowledge access in this scenario and its future evolution will need tools to customize the information space. In this article we present MASACAD, a multi-agent system that learns to advise students and discuss important pro...

The Bayesian Advisor Project: Modeling Academic Advising

An academic advisor's job requires that the advisor knows university and departmental requirements; available courses to satisfy those requirements, and a method for predicting relative student success for various course options. Such predictions are necessarily uncertain, both because the advisor has limited information about the student and because student performance can be in-uenced by unfo...

Holland’s Theory and Implications for Academic Advising and Career Counseling

Faculty Members' Attitude toward Academic Advising and Counseling and their Viewpoints about Counseling Duties

Introduction: Advising and counseling students, a part of faculty members' duties, is a way for overcoming preventable problems and educational failure due to those problems. The aim of this study was to determine the attitude of faculty members of Kerman University of Medical Sciences toward advising and counseling students and their views about the duties of counselor faculty members. Method...