Salient Effects of Practice Poster Sessions on Counselor Development: Implications for Research Training and Professional Identification.

Examines the effects of a two-step practice-poster session on first-year doctoral students' self-efficacy beliefs about making professional presentations, and evaluates the usefulness of an active-learning teaching assignment. Results suggest that the relatively brief training exercise significantly increased participants' self-efficacy to give scholarly presentations and replicate reports about the usefulness of the learning assignment. (Author/MKA)