Strengthening Academic Advising by Developing a Normative Theory

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...

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

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...

CRIS: A Rule-Based Approach for Customized Academic Advising

This study presents a customized academic e-advising service by using rule-based technology to provide each individual learner for recommending courses for college students in Taiwan. Since academic advising for taking courses is mostly by advisors to assist students to achieve educational, career, and personal goals, which made it important in the higher education system. To enhance the counse...