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Ewen, Heidi H.; Rowles, Graham D.; Watkins, John F. – Educational Gerontology, 2012
This article reports on the Gerontology Doctoral Student Assessment Model (GDSAM), a comprehensive web-based system premised on developing an evaluation mechanism attuned to the special requirements of advanced graduate education at the doctoral level. The system focuses on longitudinal tracking of selected dimensions of intellectual,…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Gerontology, Doctoral Programs, Individual Development
Dust, Thomas J. – Alberta Journal of Educational Research, 2006
Motivational influences on the decision to pursue graduate studies in secondary music education were investigated. The population of secondary music education graduate students in one large Canadian university (N=13) completed a survey that included both open-ended and closed-ended response items. The greatest motivational influences to pursue…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Graduate Study, Music Education, Student Surveys

Eisenmann, Linda – Academe, 1995
The evolution and role of the Radcliffe Institute for Independent Study, founded to provide year-long, part-time fellowships for women doctorates wishing to pursue independent scholarly or creative projects, are described. The program, which encourages applications from mothers whose intellectual work had been put on hold, is seen as one of the…
Descriptors: Educational History, Equal Education, Fellowships, Females
Ingraham, Edward C.; Peterson, Debra L. – Frontiers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad, 2004
Michigan State University (MSU) is strongly committed to the idea that study abroad is deeply beneficial and important for undergraduate students. However there is a relative scarcity of systematically gathered qualitative and quantitative information that assesses the impact of study abroad. In the summer of 2000, MSU implemented a broad plan to…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Program Evaluation, Student Surveys, Program Effectiveness
Kett, Joseph F. – 1994
This book traces the history of adult and continuing education in the United States from 1750 through 1990. The following topics are among those examined in the book's 12 chapters: literature, philosophy, and self-education in the 18th century; uses of knowledge in the antebellum period (law and learning, piety and learning, commerce and culture);…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Adult Learning, Community Colleges