Microteaching experience was sufficient to train graduate education students to a significant level of competency. However, once they moved into a regular student teaching setting, their exhibition of the original target skills was dependent upon intervention by their cooperating teachers. (Author/MV)

Responses to questions on demography, knowledge about student fees, attitudes toward collection and distribution of fees, and utilization and satisfaction with eight specific fee-funded programs were collected by mail survey from a sample of 1,002 University of Boulder students stratified by class year, ethnic group, and school. Only one-third…

POI Fakability during counselor selection procedures was investigated through two test administrations with a group of 21 new graduate students in counseling. Subjects were not given self-actualization information. The results imply new counseling students have sufficient information about self-actualization to disseminate Personality Orientation…

Compares the relative effectiveness of facilitator-directed (FD) and self-directed (SD) programmed treatments on the same participants. The programmed treatments were tested for their capacity to induce change in the quality of group member verbal interaction, and for their differential semantic meaning. Results are inconclusive. (Author/HMV)

The history, goals, and current activities of the Center for Teaching and Learning at Stanford University are outlined and discussed in this article. The Center's main areas of concern are graduate student teaching, guidance for young faculty, and faculty renewal. (JD)

Three types of correlations were used to examine interrelationships of scales for therapist empathy, warmth, genuineness, self-disclosure, and immediacy. Immediacy and self-disclosure were not significantly related to empathy and warmth for high-facilitative therapists. Results suggest use of all facilitative scales is best justified when ongoing…

A forthcoming report of the international Organization for Economic Development urges educators to provide better supervision of doctoral candidates and encourage them to take their research more seriously. (MSE)

Analyzes a nationwide graduate student survey to examine the influence of social class, sex, race, undergraduate achievement, and rank of undergraduate institution attended on rank or prestige of their graduate school. The results represent a contradictory picture of stratification in the academic hierarchy and reflect specific mechanisms that…

Doctoral students (N=58) from counseling and clinical psychology programs were assessed for level of awareness of countertransference feelings and theoretical framework during the counseling hour. Results suggest that greater awareness of feelings relates to less withdrawal of involvement (a countertransference behavior) and that a combination of…

Graduate students in fields in which an advanced degree is gained traditionally as preparation for college teaching develop their self-images as scholars and teachers with faculty at selective research institutions as their only role models. A better approach would be to require graduate students to observe daily operations of a different…

Reports findings on engineering faculty demographics derived from a survey conducted by the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE). Presents data by geographical regions and discusses the reported variations. Notes perceived crises factors in engineering education. (ML)

Consistency of gain from changing test answers was tested for students instructed about answer-changing research results, and composition of the gain was analyzed by examining the students' reasons for changing. Mean gain remained positive and consistent with gain for previously studied uninstructed groups; amount of change was also stable.…

Investigated whether counseling students' (N=82) evaluations of client need and desire for counseling would differ depending on intensity and type of emotions expressed. Depressed men expressing affect were rated as significantly less desirable to counsel than were other types of clients. Results suggest that counseling students are influenced by…

A study of first-year graduate social work students' work looked at salient features of their practices, application of practice evaluation knowledge to work with clients, and the variables influencing the ways the students practiced. Recommendations for enhancing class and field integration and increasing knowledge and skill transfer resulted.…

Surveys the extent and range of graduate writing courses nationwide and the rationale for offering them, as described by deans and faculty. Concludes that attention should be paid to the need for graduate composition courses and the attendant need for cross-disciplinary interest in the teaching of such courses. (MS)