This paper presents a way to integrate counseling videos into the counseling curriculum and suggests options for continuing education for practicing counselors. Through the use of videotapes, students learn about counseling theory by watching theorists in action and hearing about the theory first hand. Directed study questions, resources for…

The purpose of this study was to examine how graduate students participated in Web-based course discussions by analyzing the interactions that occurred between synchronous (chat) and asynchronous (listserv) modes of discussions using a coding scheme developed by the researchers. The study examined whether participation was substantive (directly…

Counseling supervision has often been conceptualized as an extrapolation of counseling theory to the supervisory context. As a learning context central to the professional development of counselors distinctly different from counseling, this scope of supervision limited the supervisor's ability to deliberately enhance supervisee growth. Although…

In this study of 53 graduate students enrolled in an introductory course in educational research, the instructor employed strategies noted in the literature as effective in reducing anxiety in statistics classes: (1) addressing the anxiety; (2) using humor; (3) applying statistics to real world situations; (4) reducing fear of evaluation; and (5)…

The purpose of this study was to explore the effectiveness of cooperative learning strategies in promoting the affective and cognitive growth of adult learners by describing and analyzing student and employer responses to a graduate level teacher education program. The Master of Education program at Indiana Wesleyan University, Marion, Indiana was…

This study involved a series of seminars designed to help preservice students understand and clarify their views about teaching and learning and to create a condition for the development of an understanding of the underlying concepts which affect their teaching and learning. The seminars tested the hypothesis that learning to teach is improved…

This report summarizes findings of a survey of 684 higher education institutions offering graduate programs in the United States; responses were received from 634 institutions. Chapter 1 presents highlights of the survey, including a profile of fall 1997 graduate enrollment for each of four regional graduate school associations (Southern,…

This report is the first publication based on the 2003-04 National Postsecondary Student Aid Study (NPSAS:04), conducted by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) within the U.S. Department of Education. NPSAS is a comprehensive study that examines how students and their families pay for postsecondary education. The study includes…

Recently, attempts have been made to use Weblog and other personal webpublishing technologies to support individual and social reflection in higher education. Due to Weblog's highly individual and reflective nature, students' experiences and perceptions of the technology and practice is of primary importance in furthering its educational use. In…

At the Fourth International Congress of Mathematicians, held at Rome in April, 1908, an international commission was organized to make a general study of the progress of mathematical instruction in the various countries. The commission soon found that it was necessary to extend the scope of the investigation to include the teaching of mathematics…

"A World Community of Old Trees," http://www.nyu.edu/projects/julian/, is the Internet research component of the doctoral dissertation, "Ecology Art Education On-Line: A World Community of Old Trees." It is the first study in the discipline of Art Education to use the World Wide Web to transmit and receive data for doctoral…

The federal role in the support of graduate work and research in the fields of humanities, science and the arts is discussed. The pool from which graduate students are selected has been falling in most doctoral programs. One reason for this decline is the decreasing availability of jobs for graduates. (MLW)

Data from a study of physics postgraduate research students are used in an attempt to predict the possible effects on university research of any reductions in the numbers of graduate students. Manpower needs are only one important criterion in formulating policy on future numbers of graduate students. (Author/IS)

A program offered by the University of Virginia French department to instruct new teaching assistants (TAs) in language methods is described. The program includes a presemester workshop, in-semester practicum, and observation procedure and coordinates with the students' advanced courses and research. (Author/MSE)

The effectiveness of a traditional programed approach for producing skills needed for systematic classroom observation was compared with that of a group process training approach. The group process approach involved trainees in generation, role-playing, and live coding of a transcript. These trainees showed a more positive attitude toward their…