Counseling professionals' and counseling psychology students' interest in performing research seems to be waning. Identifying the impediments to graduate students' interest and participation in research is important if systematic efforts to engage them in research are to succeed. The Research Self-Efficacy Scale (RSES) was designed to measure…

This report presents a summary of the results of the 1988-89 Survey of Earned Doctorates conducted each year since 1958 and consisting of surveys filled out by graduates earning doctoral degrees. Organized into three sections, the report first presents a trend analysis of the numbers of doctorate recipients including data with regard to field,…

Graduate assistants must often be the "Jack" or "Jill" of many trades. Graduate assistants at St. Louis University described a variety of boundaries they face in their multifaceted roles. Some of their major concerns were: (1) unreasonable workload; (2) isolation; (3) frenzied pace; (4) work not enjoyable; (5) difficult boss;…

This paper addresses the question of whether there are significant differences among students in five certification areas in their attitudes toward educational research and their achievement in educational research coursework. Seventy-nine students of five certification areas in five graduate sections of educational research taught by the same…

To study and compare the problem-solving processes of experts and non-experts, students and faculty were asked what they would do if they were head of the Ministry of Agriculture in the U.S.S.R. to increase the poor level of crop productivity found in recent years. Individual responses and analyses of these responses make up the bulk of this…

A Barry College study of learning and attitudes of bachelor's and master's degree students taking the same course together revealed the following: little difference in course-relevant knowledge at the beginning, undergraduates were apprehensive only at the beginning, and all students learned but not as well as students in a section for graduate…

The impact of professional social work education upon empathy was found, contrary to hypothesis, to be significantly positive. Students identified personal maturation, human behavior classes, and experiential parts of the curriculum as being most beneficial in enhancing empathy. The best students had highest empathy scores, and females higher than…

The educational objectives and techniques for the graduate seminar are outlined and illustrated with material from a successful seminar on The World of John Donne. Included is discussion of selecting an appropriate topic, use of guest lecturers, students working as a team, and the teacher's role. Emphasis is on shared research. (JT)

The major thrust of the conference dealt with employment problems of the physics community and measures which might be taken at the graduate school level to alleviate these problems. These measures involve a reexamination of traditions and a deliberate set of innovations to maintain physics as a viable career option. (Author/GS)

The FIRO-B by Schutz and the Personal Orientation Inventory by Shostrum were used to assess personality changes in a verbal and a nonverbal T-group. Personality measures used failed to find significant posttreatment differences between groups. Several significant differences occurred within groups. (Author)

A study of 383 applicants to a medium sized university's Master's in Business Administration program shows that applicants with four to seven years of interruption since undergraduate studies scored significantly higher than those with less than four or more than seven years of interruption. (JT)

Reports on a survey conducted by the Educational Testing Service in the spring and summer of 1975 to determine whether modern language majors without previous experience in business courses could succeed in an M.B.A. program. Prerequisite courses are discussed as are American and Canadian colleges and universities offering strong programs in…

The Gross Self-Insight Scale was administered to an encounter group and a control group before and after the group experience. The scale was found to have very high reliabiltiy and moderately high validity. Observation of the encounter group members' behavior supported the change in the scale scores of group members. (SE)

Raters viewed a videotape of an interview with a patient after having read one of three types of pretherapy information about the patient. Raters then completed scales regarding patient's level of adjustment, psychic distress, amount of change, and success of therapy. Only ratings of pretherapy to posttherapy patient change varied. (Author)

Graduate students learned research methods by conducting small studies on the same problem area using each other as subjects, thereby clarifying the nursing research process both experientially and theoretically. (Author/BP)