The current research findings are permanently embedded in undergraduate educational and doctoral programmes at the three Slovene universities (Ljubljana, Maribor, Primorska) as well as at foreign institutions such as the University of Vienna, Grand Valley (Allendale), Gainesville College (USA), Novosibirsk and Perm (Russia), and Leiden. The findings are mediated through lectures and seminars within a series of courses, i.e. in psychology, biopsychology, neuropsychology, educational sciences, pedagogy, adult education, preschool education. The data collected is also used for the purpuses of presenting the usefulness of multivariate statistical methods to the students. Based on our research there are a number of monographs, textbooks, chapters of monographs and papers published annually (see Cobiss for an overview). Those provide the students with the supportive academic material on the latest findings in support to the lectures.
D.10 Educational activities
Original Slovene instruments assessing language of infants/toddlers, children and adolescents were standardized and user manuals were published(257027328, 257028096, 257028352). Those ensure professionals in education, counseling and clinical practice powerful tools to identify early nonnormative development of language and to apply appropriate interventions in time. Insruments of children’s exposure to joing reading were constructed: the List of children’s books(257028608), aimed to assess parental knowledge on child literature (indirectly of joint reading at home) and the Picture test to assess children’s knowledge on child literature (indirect measure of children’s jont reading). Reliable instruments to assess participation in schools, komunicative competence and multicultural attitudes were developed. The original developmental diagnostic instrument was constructed: the Individuation Test for Emerging Adults (IT-EA). It is a unique strongly reliable and valid questionnaire to assess individuation in emerging adulthood(46463330). Its adaptation for use in various language communities (English, German, French, Norvegian) has contributed to acknowledgments and reputation of the Slovene developmental psychology in the international research community. In addition, computer programmes and e-applications for users of the IT-EA were developed in various languages.
F.21 Development of new health/diagnostic methods/procedures
A. Podlesek is the president of the National Committee for awarding the EuroPsy certificate. She is responsible for the implementation of this certificate in Slovenia and participates in the preparation of guidelines for the supervized practice of psychologists, based on the competence model of mentoring the psychologists-in-training. She is involved in developing a training program for mentors of supervised practice, which relies on the identification and evaluation of the competencies in psychology graduates. Within a project which aimed at establishing a mentoring network and developed a model of educational program for mentors and students involved either in internship or supervised practice, she (as a co-author) presented steps in the educational process: acquiring the competence approach and task planning, hands-on activities in practical settings, structured reflection, and assessment of students’ competences and mentors’ role. The project is evaluated and some guidelines for educational programs on supervised practice are outlined (the contripution was accepted for publication in European Psychologist.
F.23 Development of new system-wide, normative and programme solutions, and methods