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Blanchard, B. Everard – Improving College and University Teaching, 1977
Attributes peculiar to master's degree graduates from DePaul University's School of Education from 1966 to 1969 are examined in order to adequately judge the quality of the graduate program. Data are reported on student birthplace, residence, undergraduate study and degree, admission status, GPA, specialization, age beginning and ending, degree…
Descriptors: Demography, Grades (Scholastic), Graduate Students, Higher Education
O'Dell, Jerry W. – Improving College and University Teaching, 1977
Brown's 1933 diagnostic test was used as a screening examination for 79 psychology students to determine their areas of weakness in statistical calculations, and to see whether the difficulties of a previous era have been changed by methods of teaching mathematics today. General similarities were found. (LBH)
Descriptors: College Instruction, Comparative Analysis, Computation, Higher Education
Groves, David L. – Improving College and University Teaching, 1978
Reported is a study undertaken to examine the personal actions and values, especially as they relate to conservation issues, of college students in a natural resources survey course at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. Implications of the study results for course improvement are discussed. (JMD)
Descriptors: College Students, Conservation (Environment), Conservation Education, Higher Education
Applegate, Jimmie R. – Improving College and University Teaching, 1977
Data gathered from a questionnaire survey of prospective teachers who had completed student teaching and of randomly-selected experienced teachers are reported. Areas examined were: classroom routine, teaching methods, materials and resources, planning, relations with parents, evaluation, and discipline. Implications for teacher preparation…
Descriptors: Competence, Evaluation Criteria, Higher Education, Instructional Improvement
Schmit, Marilyn C.; And Others – Improving College and University Teaching, 1978
The results of a study of student and administrator attitudes at a private and a public university indicate that on policy, and other issues relevant to the campus community, the differences between students and administrators are perceptual rather than real, although students expected administrators to be more conservative than they really were.…
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, Administrator Attitudes, College Students, Communication (Thought Transfer)