Building a Learning Counseling Framework to Encourage Student Growth and Self-Recognition

As an assessment to encourage student growth, Japanese university co-ops develops the original behavior trait test suitable to university students, named Student Emotional Intelligence Quotient (SEQ) in 2001. The test measures student's characteristics of behaviors because their behavior is important more than ability in human relation. There are two ways to encourage students to utilize SEQ, one is lecture on introduction of it, and the other is face-to-face counseling. We have been building a new framework combining the SEQ test, lecture, face-to-face counseling and further pre/post-survey questionnaire to encourage student growth and self-recognition. In this paper, we report the details of this framework, and the preliminary results of pre/post-survey questionnaire for the graduate students who attend the "Nitobe School" program in Hokkaido University, during Academic Year(AY) 2015 to 2017. This result shows the effectiveness of this framework. In addition, we focus on the suitable timing, number of times and number of students to apply this framework.