introduction: consultation and guidance is a process of learning which is done through the relationship between two individuals. in this mutual relationship, the counselor, through his scientific and occupational skills and qualification, tries to help the students using the methods corresponding to their needs. the main objective of this study was to provide a framework for the management of t...

Willem van Zwet was supervisor of sixteen PhD students. All them pursued academic careers and most became full professor. Below are some stories students Wim Albers, Cees Diks, Ronald Does, Marta Fiocco, Sara de Geer, Mathisca Gunst, Chris Klaassen, Hein Putter, Aad der Vaart, Marten Wegkamp Martien Zuijlen with in addition a contribution by Nelly Litvak who guided after her PhD.

The author summarizes some memories and impressions of Paul Meehl as graduate advisor, classroom teacher, and departmental colleague.

Academic physiologists are both teachers and researchers. As a teacher the physiologist has two main tasks, to teach courses and to supervise graduate student research. It is argued that these two tasks involve different pedagogic strategies and therefore should not be confounded with one another. The physiologist who acts as a teacher in a situation of research advising will be an inappropriat...

Rupert Maclean (Australia) Director, Section for Secondary Education at UNESCO, Paris, since April 2000, prior to which he was Chief of the Asia-Pacific Centre of Educational Innovation for Development (ACEID), UNESCO PROAP, Bangkok. Before joining UNESCO in 1992 he was for two years the UNESCO Chief Technical Advisor in Myanmar for a UNDP-funded project to strengthen and upgrade teacher educat...

We describe a prototype advisor for students using Belvedere, an environment for conducting discussions about scientific controversies. The advisor has two strategic components, syntactic and consistency-based. Syntactic strategies are based on structural and categorical patterns in argument representations constructed by the students, and suggest ways in which students can continue their inqui...

Teachers Assessment and Profiling System (TAPS) is a unique kind of approach to examine weaknesses and strengths of a teacher so that he/she may be advised to improve his/her teaching expertise. There are many software and commercially available tools for this purpose. What makes our approach distinguished from other is that a Fuzzy Rule Based System (FRBS) is proposed for assessment and for pr...

Teachers Assessment and Profiling System (TAPS) is a unique kind of approach to examine weaknesses and strengths of a teacher so that he/she may be advised to improve his/her teaching expertise. There are many software and commercially available tools for this purpose. What makes our approach distinguished from other is that a Fuzzy Rule Based System (FRBS) is proposed for assessment and for pr...

2011 ii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I would like to thank my major advisor Dr. Ion M˘ andoiu and collaborators Dr. Alexander Zelikovsky and Serghei Mangul for their direct contributions to this thesis. Special acknowledgements go to professor Doru Popescu-Anastasiu, my high-school Computer Science teacher, who was a great inspiration for me and played a key role in me getting to UConn. I would also like t...

Origin of Mentoring1 The Greek poet Homer describes Odysseus, king of Ithaca, as having a loyal friend and advisor by the name of Mentor. While Odysseus was away fighting in the Trojan War, Mentor became a trusted teacher, coach, counselor, and protector of Odysseus’ son Telemachus. Thus, the word “mentor” used today derives from Homer and reflects a process where the mentor guides and protects...