Education and the Repertory Grid Interview

A Little on Learning

Click here for an article written by Dr Valerie Stewart about the factors essential for learning with examples of how Enquire Within makes its often unique contribution which is difficult to obtain by other means.

Typical Applications in Education

Typical examples of ways to use Enquire Within are:

• help students learn individual topics and develop generic analytical, navigation, and learning-to-learn skills
• training needs analysis
• training evaluation
• selection interviewing
• analyse learning styles
• offer career counselling
• counsel students with personal problems
• An example - A Teacher Exploring His Perceptions of His Class
• to support the teaching of course material - e.g. modern history
• help the teacher and student explore the circumstances under which the student learns best
• setting goals

Education Related Resources

• ADPRIMA - Straightforward, Useful Education Information.
  In many places on the ADPRIMA website the phrase, "Anything not understood in more than one way is not understood at all" appears after some explanation or body of information. That phrase is, in my opinion, a fundamental idea of what should be a cornerstone of all teacher education. - Dr. Bob Kizlik
• National Council on Measurement in Education - a professional organization for individuals involved in assessment, evaluation, testing, and other aspects of educational measurement.
• American Educational Research Association (AERA) - is concerned with improving the educational process by encouraging scholarly inquiry related to education and evaluation and, by promoting the dissemination and practical application of research results
• Personal Construct Theory in Educational Psychology: A Practitioner's View - This book is a selection of papers by the author, a professional psychologist who operated a school psychological service. They represent the development over some forty years of a psychological practice based on the then relatively unknown Personal Construct Theory of George Kelly. Tom Ravenette has adjusted and extended this theory to make it fully useful in the authors own context.
• The Role of Constructs in Psychological and Educational Measurement - Contributors to the volume represent an international "who's who" of research scientists from the fields of psychology and measurement. It offers the insights of these leading authorities regarding cognition and personality. In particular, they address the roles of constructs and values in clarifying the theoretical and empirical work in these fields, as well as their relation to educational assessment. It is intended for professionals and students in psychology and assessment, and almost anyone doing research in cognition and personality.

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