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School Counselor Supervision And Evaluation In Minnesota, Billie Jo Kruse Steen Dec 2007

School Counselor Supervision And Evaluation In Minnesota, Billie Jo Kruse Steen

Culminating Projects in Higher Education Administration

The purpose of this study was to examine the state of school counselor evaluation procedures in Minnesota through counselor responses to a survey instrument. School counselors, like many other school support personnel, receive little supervision and feedback on their performance. School counselor evaluation and supervision provides many challenges to school administrators. Counselors are often evaluated by administrators with little knowledge of what the school counselor does or should do in the educational setting . . Consequently, counselors are either seldom evaluated, or evaluated using instruments that were developed to assess classroom teachers. One hundred members of the Minnesota School Counselor …


Evaluating The Blending Of An E-Learning Module Into A Knowledge Management Course: A Case Study From The Singapore Management University (Smu), Thomas Menkhoff, Tze Yian Thang, Yue Kee Wong Sep 2007

Evaluating The Blending Of An E-Learning Module Into A Knowledge Management Course: A Case Study From The Singapore Management University (Smu), Thomas Menkhoff, Tze Yian Thang, Yue Kee Wong

Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business

In 2005, the authors of this essay led the development and launch of SMU’s (Singapore Management University) first e-learning package on ‘Knowledge Management’. The package is aimed at supporting SMU’s mission to be committed to an interactive, participative and technologically-enabled learning experience. Since its inception in 2000, SMU’s educational and administrative practices are modelled after American institutions, in particular the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. To support SMU’s unique pedagogy, wireless technology for mobile computing is a central feature at SMU. Against this background, the paper features a self-critical and reflective case study of the roll out of …