This report presents information on funds available for foreign graduate students wishing to attend graduate school in the United States. An opening paragraph notes that the information was gathered by administrators who work with the evaluation and training of international graduate students to prepare them for graduate teaching assistantships.…

This paper presents findings of a study that examined the extent to which professional development techniques for teachers existed within a sample of elementary and secondary schools. Data were obtained from a survey of a random sample of 47 classroom teachers and 15 principals in one region of a large northeastern state. A majority of both…

This study, conducted by the Panamerican Association of Educational Credit Institutions (APICE), examined the cost of graduate education in nine Latin American countries. The study was intended to promote graduate and educational exchange within the region, as opposed to exchanges between Latin America and the United States or Europe. Institutions…

Administrators draw on prior experiences when negotiating, implementing new curricula, and resolving conflicts. This study attempted to determine whether building level administrators included graduate study, union leadership roles, coaching experiences, and school committee leadership as part of their career development prior to assuming…

This publication presents information regarding higher education opportunities for minorities and women, progressing from general to specific information. All information is sequenced in an alphabetical order by title or description of the listing. Section I contains general information about books, brochures, lists, and publications that describe…

This document contains three model curricula in nursing education for alcohol and other drug abuse, one graduate and one baccalaureate level from New York University's (NYU) Division of Nursing, and the third combining graduate and undergraduate level curricula for Ohio State University (OSU). The NYU undergraduate curriculum contains a pilot test…

This experiment in adult learning processes was carried out in a course in applied linguistics in which the students were teachers with experience in teaching English as a foreign language. Consideration of the importance of process in such a situation derived from dissatisfaction with the lecture and tutor-led seminar methods, from the…

Studies of graduate student perceptions of the advanced learning experience are reviewed. Findings include the following: the specialized requirements of the disciplines create unique expectations and pressures that affect students' academic and personal well-being (Baird, 1974); faculty acceptance of opinions held by students and the quality of…

Describes a field-based teacher education program in a small rural school district. (IRT)

A Barry College study of learning and attitudes of bachelor's and master's degree students taking the same course together revealed the following: little difference in course-relevant knowledge at the beginning, undergraduates were apprehensive only at the beginning, and all students learned but not as well as students in a section for graduate…

Systematic and intensive interviews with 68 men in their early thirties suggested that the principal effects of a liberal education were the stabilization, symbolization, and integration of values; the effects of graduate and professional school were the integration and allocentric maturation of intellect and the symbolization of self-concept.…

Cites statistics indicating an increase in women planning careers in business, engineering, law or medicine with that of men declining in ratio from eight to one to three to one. Also notes an all-time low in percentage of teacher education. (EB)

Asserts that the Minority Schools Bio-medical Support Program, begun by the General Research Support Branch, Division of Research Resources, National Institutes of Health, on December 1, 1971 has made it possible for men and women from ethnic minority groups to pursue careers in the biomedical and health sciences, it is stated. (Author/JM)

Results are said to confirm that current prestige of graduate sociology departments is essentially a function of prior prestige, rather than of staff productivity. [Available from American Sociological Association, 1722 N Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036]. (Author/AM)

Reports on results of a questionnaire sent to a random sample of 300 sociologists investigating the extent to which dissertation findings are disseminated through a variety of media. When operational definition of dissertation is broadened, a more extensive transmission of dissertation results than previously reported emerges. [Available from…