There is an increasing amount of literature on how to analyze longitudinal data of complete social networks. Guidance on how to collect such data in schools, however, is both scant and desperately needed, because longitudinal social network analysis has high data requirements. Aiming to provide guidance for future data collection of school-based networks, we share our experiences gained in thre...

Each liaison is a ?point person? for faculty and staff of each school or the Graduate Division and serves as a consultant and referral source to faculty, staff, and students who are seeking guidance or support regarding a student who may be in need of counseling services or other support. The Liaison also works with school representatives to better understand the specific needs of the students ...

4. Proposed method Evaluation of Invalid Input Discrimination Using Bag-of-Words for Speech-Oriented Guidance System Haruka Majima*, Rafael Torres*, Hiromichi Kawanami*, Sunao Hara**, Tomoko Matsui***, Hiroshi Saruwatari*, Kiyohiro Shikano* *Graduate School of Information Science, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan **Graduate School of Natural Science and Technology, Okayama Univer...

The substantive aim of the study was to examine the effect of guidance services on students’ study attitudes, study habits and academic achievement. An experimental study was devised for the purpose. A guidance programme for secondary school students was developed by the researcher. An experiment was conducted to explore the effectiveness of guidance services in terms of improvement in students...

Bullying and violence, which can bring detrimental effects, are situations which young people have to face in their process of development. Though school bullying has been a spreading and explicit problem in Hong Kong schools, most of the programs or guidelines dealing with the problem lack citywide, recognized initiatives and the effectiveness of these programs is unknown due to the lack of ev...

The Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Applied Technology Education Amendments of 1998 extended support for “career guidance and academic counseling.” A wide variety of such interventions are in existence. Since the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 emphasizes evidence-based education, it is important to examine the research to determine the value of these programs. This synthesis of the research li...