Adaptabilidad transcultural de la orientación de estudiante a estudiante pare le adjuste academico

Resumo

Evaluation of student-to-student academic adjustment coun­seling for freshmen attending Southwest Texas State University demonstrated that an experimental (counseled) sample excelled significantly a matching control (uncounseled) sample on all criteria of scholastic success. The cri­teria employed for evaluating counseling outcome included first-semester grade-point averages, as well as test-retest gain scores on the Survey of Study Habits and Attitudes and the Effective Study Test The testing and counsel­ing materials developed for this program, were translated into Spanish and the student-counseling-student approach was adapted for use with Spanish- speaking students. Comparison of pre-counseling and post-counseling scores for a sample of first-year psychology students attending the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México showed that these counselees also made sig­nificant gains in their measured study skills. Comparison of research results obtained from the English-language and Spanish-language projects suggests that the student-to-student counseling approach does have cross-cultural adaptability.