This article conceptualizes an attachment-based model of the student-field instructor relationship, based on empirical research concerning internal working models of attachment, which continue into adulthood and serve as templates for life-long relating. Supportive relationships within a noncritical context are salient for effective supervision;…

Explores the dimensions of expectancy theory in human communicative behavior. Examines human expectancies from a communicative perspective. Proposes an expectancy model of human symbolic activity centering on communicative expectancies within supervisor and subordinate relationships. (SR)

Examines the relationship between employee gender and gender similarity on supervisor-subordinate cross-evaluations and subordinate rewards (N=651). Results indicated that evaluations of women are more positive and opposite-sex evaluations tend to be higher than same-sex evaluations, but men subordinates receive more promotions, and same-sex…

Eighteen clinical supervisors participated in focus groups or an individual interview designed to investigate their personal experiences with value conflicts in supervision. Participants described the types of value conflicts they had experiences and their personal impact, effective and ineffective approaches for addressing these issues, resources…

A three-component organizational commitment model was tested with 253 Chinese supervisor/supervisee dyads. Confirmatory factor analyses indicated that affective commitment (AC) related positively to in-role performance and organizational citizenship behavior (OCB); continuance commitment correlated negatively with OCB. Normative commitment…

Study examined clinical supervision in posteducational rehabilitation counseling settings. The purpose was twofold: to assess the current practice of clinical supervision in the public sector, and to empirically validate a model of supervision within the context of a posteducational setting. Current clinical supervisory models and practices, and…

Among 166 African American managers, those who were the only minority-group member in their workgroup perceived more stereotype threat. Stereotype threat was related to indirect feedback seeking and discounting of supervisors' performance feedback. (Contains 41 references.) (SK)

Considers the supervisor's role as facilitator of workplace learning within four adult education traditions: training, self-directed learning/andragogy, leaner-centered humanistic education, and critical pedagogy. Discusses tensions that could arise in implementing each type as well as the necessity to develop and maintain trust. (Contains 40…

Twelve managers described effective and ineffective critical incidents in which they tried to facilitate employee learning. From the analysis emerged 13 behavior sets that help define the role of facilitator. (SK)

Within educational psychology, as in other professions, there is a pervasive view of supervision as a one-way learning process, with knowledge and skills being passed from supervisor to supervisee in a linear fashion. It is proposed that we need to shift our perspective in order to acknowledge the rich learning opportunities for both participants…

Purpose: The paper aims to describe the application of two key service quality frameworks for improving the delivery of postgraduate research supervision. The services quality frameworks are used to identify key areas of overlap between services marketing practice and postgraduate supervision that can be used by the supervisor to improve research…

In the vein of action research, the author examines his practice of matching lesbian and gay student teachers with a lesbian or gay cooperating teacher for field placement. This article addresses several questions. In what ways, if any, do lesbian and gay teachers help new teachers cope with and interrupt homophobia? How do they help student…

This study investigated supervisees' perceptions of the learning processes and outcomes of professional supervision. Two hundred and sixty-four psychology graduates involved in the process of professional supervision for registration responded to a mail survey regarding their supervisor's approach to supervision, their own approach to supervision…

Extracts from the written conversation between research student and supervisor show the nature of educative research supervision. The authors argue that researcher-supervisor relationships are methodological in nature as they shape and influence the people, the project and the field. Such relationships, which construct meanings, are complex. A…

The article synthesizes research findings from studies examining how principals and teachers contribute to shared instructional leadership and the relationship of shared instructional leadership to teacher and student learning. Principals and teachers contribute to the leadership equation in each school in different ways, according to school…