Using Simulated Parent-Teacher Talks to Assess and Improve Prospective Teachers’ Counseling Competence

<p>In research on parental involvement and teacher professionalization, counseling parents on the support of their children’s learning processes is considered to be an increasingly important competence area of teachers. However, to date little research has been conducted on the development of appropriate approaches to the assessment of teachers’ counseling competence. The current study describes the validation of a behavior-based...