An ethnographic study examined three new teaching assistants (TAs) from July 1995 to July 1996 at a state university. Data included observing their classrooms, gathering artifacts, and talking about their experiences to determine what types of training and experiences lead to a successful TA and what elements or characteristics comprise a…

This paper first puts forward a number of reasons why postgraduate students need to be able to present bibliographic information in a form that satisfies academic conventions. Possible sources of information for the student are then enumerated; global principles of bibliographic presentation (completeness, clarity and convenience, consistency,…

A study was done to determine student attitudes towards their experience in the practicum component of the graduate program at the University of Connecticut School of Social Work (UCONN). The program lasts 2 years and the hypothesis was that students had the same level of satisfaction for both years. A questionnaire was developed and sent to 248…

I. Roseman, M. Spindel, and P. Jose (1990) had previously demonstrated that specific appraisals of events led to discrete emotional responses, but this model has not been widely tested by other research teams using alternative research methods. The present study utilized four qualitative research methods, taught by Patti Lather at the 1994…

A survey of 1,068 admitted graduate students at the University of Michigan examined the relative influence of factors affecting college choice decisions. Factor analysis of ratings of importance of 31 college characteristics yielded dimensions upon which student decisions are based. These results were used to build five scales of importance and…

This book provides the results of a study of recipients and renonces (those who declined the fellowship) of European Community (EC) science and engineering fellowships between 1968 and 1988 and a study of fellows who participated in the International Scientific Cooperation (ISC) Programmme, also sponsored by the EC. The first study is based on…

Findings from a survey of universities offering doctorates in educational administration are presented in this paper. Questionnaires mailed to 40 universities in the south central United States elicited 28 responses, a 70 percent response rate. Findings indicate that no clearly defined methods existed to distinguish educational administration…

Seeking to understand the influence of gender on advisement relationships, 22 women doctoral recipients in education were interviewed using retrospective, in-depth, semi-structured interviews (audiotaped and transcribed verbatim), with the constant comparative method. Purposeful sampling adjustments and inclusion of relationships with all members…

Resulting from the Advanced Training for Child Care Administrators project (ATCCA), this manual serves to promote, in similar projects, training in administration and staff development in the areas of child development, education, or social work. Section 1 describes the rationale, goals, expectations, responsibilities, and participant selection…

The effects of the graduate experience on the intra- and inter-family relationships among married doctoral student couples were studied. Full-time students 35 years old or less enrolled at Ohio State University in 1982 and their nonenrolled spouses made up the sample. The ways that these students coped with the dual student-spouse role and made…

Although the effectiveness of role play and its vicarious learning experiences for counselor training is well documented, little research has focused on the impact of the order of playing the roles on skill development. To investigate the effect of ordinal position, 36 beginning counseling students, 24 female and 12 male, with a median age of 30,…

Two methods of teaching interaction and communication skills were compared. One method was lecturing while a second involved lecturing plus modeling and practice. Results showed that although both groups of 24 subjects made progress, only the second group's learning of communication skills was statistically significant compared to the pretest…

Graduate students are socialized by educational institutions to become docile, timid, and conventional. In graduate school, creativity and quality are left unrewarded, while conventionality and quantity are looked upon with favor. The graduate school experience which emphasizes a dissertation supervised by advisors who threaten the student with…

The ever-increasing global demand for energy has sparked renewed interest within the engineering community in the study of sustainable alternative energy sources. This paper discusses a power generation system which uses biomass as "fuel" to illustrate the concepts taught to students taking a graduate level chemical engineering process…

Undergraduates on college campuses are one of the best resources for learning about college student development. Nonetheless, graduate programs which prepare student personnel professionals have typically neglected to involve undergraduates in courses which attempt to teach student development theory and research. Without input and feedback from…