Summarizes survey findings of faculty and graduate students that were conducted by the American Society for Engineering Education. Provides data collected in the fall of 1985 on faculty shortages, faculty recruitment, faculty mobility, factors limiting Ph.D. production, the quality of engineering education, and graduate student characteristics.…

Commentary on a National Commission on Student Financial Assistance report examines: federal role in graduate education, reauthorizing the Higher Education Act of 1965, restoring university research in science and technology, redefining graduate education, transition to an information society, excellence and the graduate student. (MLW)

This report presents information for parents, students, staff, policymakers, and the general public on the quality and performance of public higher education in West Virginia. Chapters display numerous indicators addressing various aspects of higher education: preparation; participation; affordability; workforce development and education outcomes.…

This book investigates many aspects of educational reform, pivoting around an innovative master's degree program for teachers. After "Foreword" (David T. Hansen), there are 14 papers: (1) "Transforming Teacher Education" (Hugh T. Sockett); (2) "From Educational Rhetoric to Program Reality" (Hugh T. Sockett and Pamela…

The 2001 edition of the Digest of Education Statistics is the 37th in a series of publications initiated in 1962. Its purpose is to provide a compilation of statistical information covering the broad field of U.S. education from prekindergarten through graduate school. The Digest includes data form many sources, both government and private, and…

This report describes the activities and outcomes of a project designed to prepare educational specialists to serve students with serious emotional disturbance effectively within general education settings. The primary goal was to create a concentration within an existing special education graduate program that would train at least 10 students per…

This final report describes activities and achievements of a 4-year federally funded project to support a graduate level program at the University of Vermont to prepare educational specialists to serve students with Serious Emotional Disturbances (SED) and their families within their local public schools, homes and other community settings. The…

This report uses data from the 1995-96 National Postsecondary Student Aid Study to describe the financing of graduate and first-professional education. It begins with a series of profiles of students in selected graduate and first-professional programs, followed by a compendium of tables that provide detailed data on student characteristics, types…

This paper documents the development of an authentic assessment evaluation process at Ohio's Wright State University (WSU), examining authentic assessment efforts related to PRAXIS III/Pathwise Assessment, which is being piloted by the Ohio Department of Education as the model for teacher licensure. Portfolios receive major attention during WSU's…

This report provides a statistical profile of today's college students disaggregated by sector, namely students at public two-year colleges, public four-year colleges, independent four-year colleges, and graduate students at public and private universities. It found that about 41 percent of community college students and 10 percent of four-year…

This edition of the "Digest of Education Statistics" is the 36th in a series that provides a compilation of statistical information covering the broad field of U.S. education from kindergarten through graduate school. The Digest includes data from many sources, both government and private, and draws heavily on work done by the National…

Successful implementation of the technological and vocational education (TVE) system has been a major factor in Taiwan's rapid economic development. In the 1999-2000 academic year, 1,034,289 TVE students account for 57.7 percent of students in upper-secondary and post-secondary schools. The junior high school technical arts program gives students…

This paper describes a program that prepares recent immigrants and refugees, currently living in the community, to become certified classroom teachers. The Newcomers-Extended Teacher Education Program (ETEP) provides opportunities for recent immigrants and refugees who have completed a bachelor's degree in their home nation or the United States to…

This study described the professional learning of teacher educators in graduate schools which allowed, by the consideration of different pedagogical practices, the construction of bridges between those practices and theories supporting them. It analyzed the effectiveness of teaching and learning case studies in promoting teachers' personal…

This report details the activities of the Youth Research Centre (YRC) at the University of Melbourne in 2002 in research project work involving a balance between the completion of projects, the development of new areas, and the continuation of longer-term projects as well as the supervision and teaching of a range of postgraduate health and…