Considers the question of whether art therapy is an idea or a profession. Presents a brief overview of professions, the benefits and consequences of professions, challenges facing the profession of art therapy, and ideas for the future. Discusses service learning as a way of helping students become concerned about making a difference. (Contains 20…

Compared the self-reported research anxiety, computer anxiety, and research orientations of 149 full-time graduate social work, psychology, and business students at a research university. Found that social work students reported more research and computer anxiety and generally believed that research was less important to their profession that…

Describes a year-long multicultural training seminar for psychology and social work interns in a university counseling center. Discusses the experiential, cross-disciplinary, peer-based multiformat structure of the group. Reviews the foundational philosophy, week-to-week mechanics, and trainee reaction over the last seven years of conducting the…

Presents results of a study of postgraduate students who were asked to create Web pages using HTML in order to explore the relationship between matching and mismatching instructional presentation style (breadth-first and depth-first) with students' cognitive style (field dependence-independence) in a computer-based learning environment. Findings…

Discussion of information retrieval focuses on a study of graduate students where the inferential communication model, which implies that the meaning of a document is inferred in the context of the user's situation to result in different meanings for different users, is used to study an inferential science document representation method.…

Surveyed graduate deans (n=63) and found academic advisement needs improvement in 3 areas: articulation of advisement guidelines, preparation of advisors, and support from graduate advisement in the university community. Forty-four percent stated they were satisfied with overall status of graduate advisement; even so, 64% reported faculty members…

Describes mentoring as a support mechanism for trainees undertaking new in-service professional qualifications for the Association of Graduate Careers Advisory Services (UK). Presents the selection procedure for mentors, the process of matching them with trainees, the regional network for induction training and support, and the documentation…

Describes a study of graduate students in pastoral ministries and religious education who are not seminarians. Reviews findings related to students' demographics and background, previous work experience, and future goals and describes practical issues related to undertaking graduate studies. Indicates that a majority of the students hoped to work…

Maintains that graduate and undergraduate students need to be taught how to read literature critically if they are to practice other forms of criticism successfully. States that job candidates who seem to enjoy reading literature and who demonstrate an ability and an interest in teaching reading are difficult to find. (TB)

The Getzels-Guba model of organizational social system functioning (J. W. Getzels and E. G. Guba, 1957) has proven effective as an analytical aid used by graduate students in understanding the practical dynamics of the principal's school leadership functions. Conflicts arising from the internal dynamics of the model are explored. (SLD)

Argues that a doctoral policy document, presenting the studied advocacy of a reflective scholar/practitioner for a specific educational policy issue, is a better alternative for educational doctorate programs than the traditional dissertation. Policy advocacy is supported as a conceptual extension of the reform climate in educational…

Investigates the effectiveness of different types of supervision (large group, small group, combined group, individual supervision) with counseling students (N=64). Analyses revealed that all supervision formats resulted in similar progress in counselor effectiveness and counselor development. Participants voiced a preference for individual…

Study attempts to determine whether clinicians' attitudes toward feminism influence their perception of a client's problem. After completing a scale assessing their endorsement of feminist attitudes, counselor-trainees (N=150) viewed videotaped counseling interviews of a male counselor interviewing a male or female experiencing depression. Results…

Examines the debt burden of 1992-1993 bachelor's degree recipients in light of their financial circumstances approximately 4 years after graduation. Data from the Baccalaureate and Beyond Longitudinal Study show that about one-half of all 1992-1993 bachelor's degree recipients borrowed to help pay for their undergraduate education, and about…

Examined stereotypes about the prior educational experience of 10 postgraduate business students from India at an Australian university. Concludes that many aspects of the cultural-deficit perspective so often taken are not appropriate, and that a more contextualized approach is more useful in understanding and describing the diversity of…