Conducting research into an area of personal disability provides the graduate student additional maturation and increased self-realization. The student is able to contribute to the corporate knowledge of the disability through integration of past experience with knowledge and techniques gained through professional education. (Author/MLW)

Discusses three ways of recruiting more physics teachers in the United Kingdom. (HM)

Discusses Lick Observatory's (University of California) early graduate students and graduate program in astronomy. The history of the Lick Observatory and famous astronomy professors and astronomers associated with the Lick Observatory are also discussed. (DS)

Networking is a process in which people and resources are engaged through intentional acts based upon acquired skills. The term is associated with self-directed learning and can serve as a collaborative rather than a competitive educational principle. "People" and "program" networks for graduate education and identification of networking skills…

Evidence is presented for the existence of two types of factors when semantic differential data are factor analyzed by treating each concept-scale combination as a variable: (1) factors defined by scales within given concepts; and (2) factors defined by scales across concepts. (Author/MH)

Interviews with new faculty and graduate students regarding their career needs and desires identified concerns in the following areas: the tenure process; alternative career paths; the two-tiered academic labor market; professional development opportunities and post-tenure review; better graduate school preparation; and integration of personal and…

Describes a project designed to increase science literacy in the general public by bringing hands-on experiments with real-world applications to public school students. Provides the history and an outline of the program. (DDR)

Examines the pastoral skills of PhD supervisors. The pastoral dimension of supervision can create conditions in which supervisors become too emotionally involved with their students. Costs of this over-involvement are identified and it is recommended that training programs for PhD supervisors contain a pastoral skills component. (RJM)

Examines how three English-speaking advisers and their non-native English-speaking doctoral students used citations and related writing techniques to make new knowledge claims in science dissertation writing. Finds that academic advisers play an important role in helping the students, and finds no negative influence from the students' native…

Discusses language learning histories as educational aids promoting authentic and meaningful communication in the English-as-a-Second-Language classroom. This process involves the teacher and students sharing their own language learning history with the group, either orally or in writing, and including even the embarrassing moments. (12…

Describes development and implementation of "Rube-o-Rama," a videoconferencing project conducted during the fall of 2001 between graduate students at Purdue University (Indiana) and a classroom of fifth grade students in Indianapolis (Indiana) that had Rube Goldberg as the encompassing topic. (MES)

Examined the difficulties a group of Mexican graduate students encountered when engaged in an argumentative writing task as well as their writing processes and strategies. Data were collected from individual interviews with participants and from participants' essays. Analysis indicated most participants perceived the rhetorical aspects of English…

Describes a study of graduate students that investigated whether a lengthened HyperCard stack treatment could promote problem-solving ability and reduce computer anxiety. The study was based on previous research that compared BASIC programming with HyperCard. Highlights include authoring languages and the effect of different instructional formats…

Notes that few counseling psychologists publish research after obtaining their doctoral degree. Investigated predictors of research productivity and science-related career goals in doctoral students (N=267) from 15 counseling psychology programs. Findings indicate career goals and research productivity can be predicted by Holland personality type,…

Examines the attitudes of master's-level education students towards students with disabilities. The graduate students were given a questionnaire before and after completing a university course on teaching music to special education learners. Results showed an increase in participants capability but a decrease in willingness to pursue this work.…