The Community for Advancing Discovery Research in Education (CADRE) offers advice on becoming a successful researcher in the field of STEM education and a portrait of an early career researcher support program. The advice offered throughout the guide comes from experienced researchers who are part of the National Science Foundation's Discovery…

This manual is a practical training guide for graduate and undergraduate research assistants (RAs) working in the Werklund School of Education, University of Calgary. It may also be applicable to research assistants working in other fields or institutions. The purpose of this manual is to train RAs on how to plan and conduct focus groups for…

This document asks higher education institutions to update data on research students, research assistants, research fellows, and income from charities. These data will inform quality-related research (QR) funding for the academic year 2004-2005. It also asks institutions to update data on fundable research students who are eligible to pay certain…

This guide addresses the supervisory challenges of college faculty in preparing graduate assistants to become better teachers and researchers. The guide's purpose is to provide faculty members with an understanding of how to think and plan as a supervisor and how to prepare and nurture the next generation of university teachers, scholars, and…

Prior to the 1970s, research about women was largely limited to the work of individual scholars working in isolation within their own disciplines. Women's studies programs first appeared on campus in 1969, and scholarly research about women began a period of unprecedented growth. Organized centers for research about women also came into being for…

This guide is intended to give practical advice that prepares graduate student researchers for the realities and challenges of living and working abroad, with a particular focus on that area of research experience that is between participation and observation. Drawing on the experiences of 150 scholars, funded over a 6-year period by the MacArthur…

Issues related to the enrollment and education of foreign students in American graduate schools are examined. Most of these students come from developing countries and are often sent to the United States to acquire skills and training needed in their countries. Engineering is the field with the greatest concentration of foreign students. Although…