Illustration of each unit of a graduate course on microeconomic theory and discussion of the weekly problem sets, including two students' perceptions of the course. (ND)

Paper presented at the Tenth International Seminar on Family Research of the International Committee on Family Research, Tehran, Iran, March 5-13, 1968.

This paper presents ideas on ways to help graduate students in political science to become more marketable for nonacademic positions. It also includes background information on the changing employment market for Ph.D.'s. These ideas were discussed at a 1980 meeting of teachers, graduate students, and recent Ph.D.'s at MIT. The purpose of the…

The authoritarian-aggression attitudes of graduate education students were studied. Authoritarian-aggression is defined as the tendency to look for, condemn, reject, and punish people who violate conventional behavior. It was hypothesized that no significant differences in authoritarian-aggression attitudes exist between graduate students who…

This bibliographic essay provides a sequence for searching and a list of 60 reference sources useful for retrieving educational research literature. Many of these sources are briefly described in the essay. The bibliography includes reviews of research, bibliographies, indexes, abstracts, yearbooks, dictionairies, and such government publications…

This handbook contains summarized information about scholarships, grants, studentships, demonstratorships and assistantships, and other forms of financial assistance open to graduates of universities in one British Commonwealth country who wish to undertake postgraduate study or reseach at a university in another Commonwealth country. It includes…

As more psychologists become involved in program evaluation, program evaluation courses have been developed by many psychology departments. Psychology graduate students (N=19) participated in a semester-long simulation course. Students divided into small groups, and each group submitted a written proposal for evaluating the counseling service of a…

The process of contextualization of theological education through an internship experience at Perkins School of Theology is described. Perkins is a graduate professional school of theology preparing persons for leadership in the church, and the internship normally follows the second year of academic study. The intern is placed in a teaching…

Because many college communication departments employ graduate teaching assistants (GTAs) to provide instruction in undergraduate courses, a study was conducted to determine how much inservice training departments provide their GTAs to prepare them for effective teaching. A questionnaire was completed by 136 speech communication departments across…

This project developed and evaluated a series of interactive study modules for students taking a course in Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) techniques using the IBM Interactive Instructional System (IIS) software. Exercises were general enough to be applicable across a variety of research areas. The computer assisted instruction (CAI) approach was…

An inservice program for doctoral composition specialists should train the teaching fellow to teach composition at a variety of levels, to administer writing programs, and to supervise writing clinics. It should also encourage teaching fellows to recognize the study and teaching of composition as fertile areas for research and scholarship and it…

The organization and activities of a three-day workshop for graduate teaching assistants is described. Emphasis is placed on the role of the teacher, class management, and successful teaching methods. The evaluation questionnaire used at the conclusion of the workshop is included in this descriptive report. (JD)

DURING 1966-67, THE MODERN LANGUAGE ASSOCIATION, WITH ASSISTANCE FROM THE DANFORTH FOUNDATION, SPONSORED AN EXTENSIVE STUDY OF THE PH.D. IN ENGLISH IN AMERICAN UNIVERSITIES. DON CAMERON ALLEN, THE DIRECTOR, WORKING WITH AN ADVISORY COMMITTEE, USED QUESTIONNAIRES, VISITS, AND CONFERENCES AS BASES FOR A FULL-LENGTH REPORT WHICH INCLUDES THE…