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Kuh, Charlotte V. – 1978
A research project is described that concerns "temporal adjustment" as one form of a non-wage adjustment in the academic labor market. Receipt of the doctorate, the number and length of post-doctoral fellowships, and the achievement of tenure are temporal factors in academic careers. The change in timing of these factors is a form of…
Descriptors: Doctoral Degrees, Graduate Students, Graduate Study, Higher Education
Hammerman, Donald R., Ed. – 1973
In the summer of 1972 graduate students from Northern Illinois University were enrolled in a six week study tour of outdoor education programs in Germany and Austria. The tour included observations and conferences with teachers, students, administrators, and Ministry of Education officials from both countries, guided tours of major cities, and…
Descriptors: Athletics, Comparative Analysis, Cross Cultural Studies, Facilities
Kent, R. C., Ed.; Nielsson, G. P., Ed. – 1980
The document presents 19 essays which explore the growth of international relations (IR) as a field of intellectual inquiry and evaluate dilemmas currently facing IR. Authors were selected on the basis of involvement with midcareer students while participating in overseas graduate programs of the Schools of International Relations at the…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Students, Books, Continuation Students
Brinton, Donna; Gaskill, William – 1979
A one-week orientation program designed to increase the effectiveness of foreign teaching assistants (FTA) is described. As the program developed, a decision was made to include non-FTAs with the result that the English language proficiency of the participants covered a wide range and the objectives of the program were mixed. Because of the…
Descriptors: Conversational Language Courses, Course Descriptions, Cross Cultural Training, English (Second Language)
Christoff, Karen A.; And Others – 1978
Seven of 14 first-year graduate students in Clinical Psychology enrolled in a criterion-referenced self-training course in clinical interviewing were shown a tape of a faculty member or advanced graduate student performing the requisite skills for each of nine modules. Tapes were shown immediately preceding practice of the skills. All students met…
Descriptors: Autoinstructional Aids, Behavior Change, Clinical Psychology, Feedback
Fadil, Virginia Ann; Minter, W. John – 1979
This third annual survey of the fall enrollment at independent colleges and universities is designed to provide timely information for college presidents and policy-makers. The study utilized the national sample of the Minter-Bowen study, expanded in 1977 to include research universities and two-year colleges. This stratified sample of 135…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Comparative Analysis, Enrollment Rate, Enrollment Trends
National Science Foundation, Washington, DC. Div. of Science Resources Studies. – 1979
Presented are statistical data from the National Science Foundation fall survey of Graduate Science Student Support. This survey included graduate schools with master's and doctoral programs in science, engineering, and medicine. (SA)
Descriptors: College Science, Engineering Education, Enrollment, Enrollment Trends
Wilson, Everett K. – 1979
The paper considers how research and teaching of sociology will be improved if sociology graduate students receive training with a different emphasis. The major problem besetting sociology education centers on the dominance of quantitative techniques. This technical dominance in the field of sociology has resulted in excluding: subject matter,…
Descriptors: Course Organization, Educational Assessment, Educational Needs, Educational Practices
Atkinson, Richard C. – 1976
In a discussion of the crisis in graduate education in the sciences and engineering, focus is on factors that threaten American capability to produce world-class science in universities. While finances play a part, the causes are basically structural--the rigidity of university faculties, stemming from a significant expansion in tenured positions,…
Descriptors: Age, College Faculty, Declining Enrollment, Engineering Education
Bell, Margaret E.; And Others – 1979
Attitudinal factors that hinder the economic and social advancement of women were investigated. Graduate students between the ages of 20 and 50 and enrolled in two southern institutions of higher learning were administered the Dolly-Bell Sex Discrimination Scale: Social and Economic Factors. Results indicate that sex discrimination is determined…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Economic Factors, Economic Status, Females
SANTOS, SEVERINO R. – 1966
A TOTAL OF 179 GRADUATE STUDENTS WHO WERE CANDIDATES FOR EITHER A MASTER'S OR A DOCTORATE DEGREE IN THE AREAS OF FARM MANAGEMENT, RURAL SOCIOLOGY, EXTENSION EDUCATION, AND AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION WERE STUDIED--(1) TO DETERMINE WHAT CONSTITUTES SUCCESS IN GRADUATE CANDIDACY BASED ON THE OPINION OF A PANEL OF PROFESSORS, (2) TO DESCRIBE THE STUDENTS…
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, College Faculty, Criteria, Doctoral Degrees
Slawski, Carl – 1973
A guide for future research was developed for professional socialization processes, focusing on graduate education, aspects of career development, disciplinary and departmental ideology, and relationships between socializer and socialee (or faculty or graduate student). The analysis centers around the hypothesis that social distance between a…
Descriptors: Career Planning, College Faculty, Comparative Analysis, Graduate Students
Marco, Gary L. – 1968
Normative data were obtained on the performance of first-year graduate students on the Aptitude Test and Advanced Tests of the Graduate Record Examinations. The population consisted of students enrolled as full-time graduate students for the first time in the fall of 1964 in a college or university belonging to the Council of Graduate Schools…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Aptitude Tests, College Entrance Examinations, Error of Measurement
Northwest Regional Educational Lab., Portland, OR. – 1975
Following the same format as the original document "Adult Career Education Counseling and Guidance Resource," the guide provides supplemental information on sources relative to the field of adult counseling and guidance. The resource aid, which is directed to the adult educator or counselor as well as graduate students in adult or counselor…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Educators, Adults, Annotated Bibliographies
Nielsen, Thomas G. – 1976
The School of Education of Syracuse University implemented EXPER SIM, a computer simulation program, in a graduate program in instructional technology. During a one-semester course each student planned a program of research, developed a proposal for at least one experimental study, collected simulated data using EXPER SIM, analyzed and interpreted…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Oriented Programs, Computer Programs, Course Evaluation
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