John Krumboltz

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John D. Krumboltz
Professor of Education and Psychology

John D. Krumboltz, Professor of Education and Psychology, is actively engaged in research work with adolescents. With continuing interests in career development, he is now involved in developing occupational simulations (CD-ROMs which enable users to experience some of what it would feel like to work in a given occupation). His research will evaluate the effectiveness of simulations in promoting career exploration and will test variations in design for their motivational effects.

A former high school counselor, Krumboltz has been involved in a number of studies with adolescents. Some of his early studies demonstrated the power of modeling and positive reinforcement during a counseling interview in influencing adolescents to seek occupational information after the counseling itself was completed. Another study showed how military leadership ratings could be predicted from participation in high school extracurricular activities. Other research has involved evaluating an analog for comparing alternative models of teaching adolescents effective decision making. More recent research has focused on how adolescent career beliefs which block progress can be identified and altered through counseling interventions.

Krumboltz is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He has received a Guggenheim Fellowship and spent a year as a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences. On three occasions he has received the Outstanding Research Award from the American Personnel and Guidance Association. He is co-author of Changing Children's Behavior. In 1990 the American Psychological Association's Division of Counseling Psychology gave him the Leona Tyler Award, the nation's foremost award in the field of counseling psychology.

Publications

Chang, T.; Yeh, C.J.; Krumboltz, J.D. (2001). "Process and outcome evaluation of an on-line support group for Asian American male college students." Journal of Counseling Psychology Special Issue: Vol 48(3), 319-329
Krumboltz, J.D.; Worthington, R.L. (1999). "The school-to-work transition from a learning theory perspective". Career Development Quarterly Special Issue: School-to-work transitions. Vol 47(4), 312-325.
Krumboltz, J.D. (1998). "Serendipity is not serendipitous." Journal of Counseling Psychology, 45, 390-392.
Foster, S.L., Krumboltz, J.D., & Ford, M.E. (1997) "Teaching social skills to shy single men." The Family Journal: Counseling and Therapy for Couples and Familes, Vol(5), 37-48.
Krumboltz, J.D., & Yeh, C. J. (1996). "Competitive grading sabotages good teaching." Phi Delta Kappan, Vol(78), 324-326.

E-Mail: jdk@stanford.edu
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John D. Krumboltz Professor of Education and Psychology

John D. Krumboltz
Professor of Education and Psychology