This bibliography is intended as a convenient guide to scholarship in the field of Victorian fiction for graduate and advanced undergraduate students. The listings are selective, with emphasis on critical works published in the twentieth century. Contents include a preface explaining the guide, followed by the main sections: "Bibliographies,…

Critical incidents were used to collect faculty ratings of graduate student performance in the departments of chemistry, English, and psychology. Separate factor analyses in each of three fields produced eight factors that were fairly consistent with respect to item loadings across fields. Factors were labeled independence and initiative,…

At the beginning of the academic year 1972-73 the graduate physics student population was 11,804. The 173 doctorate granting institutions and the 137 master's granting institutions reported enrollments of 10,227 and 1,577 graduate physics students, respectively. The data for this Graduate Student Survey comes from individual graduate students…

Program objectives may be summarized as follows: (1) to provide an opportunity for outstanding students to become trained in research through participation in a doctoral program having a special emphasis on audiovisual communication; (2) to produce persons trained in the research skills that are essential for the development, implementation, and…

This paper provides a critical review of the purposes, current techniques and potential methods for analyzing doctorate and other high-level labor markets. Chapter 1 describes and interprets the doctorate manpower market of the 1960's and early 1970's, as well as the forecasted manpower crisis of the 1970's and early 1980's. Chapter 2 gives a…

This booklet contains a list of institutions of higher learning in the United States and Canada which teach Italian. Italian is taught, according to the booklet, in 383 colleges and universities in the United States (including 28 community or junior colleges), and in 15 colleges and universities in Canada. Other information includes the number of…

A follow-up study of 478 graduates from the University of Virginia School of Nursing was designed to provide information concerning student characteristics, migration patterns, professional employment activities, graduate and/or professional study, professional activities and opinions concerning the elements that contributed most to their…

This discussion paper suggests how the "service function" of a professor of higher education complements a graduate department of higher education, in which students find an opportunity to think about the nature of higher education in broad perspective, free from the immediate pressures of a job for probably the only time in their professional…

This annotated bibliography of institutional research is the sixth in a series published by the Association for Institutional Research (AIR) for distribution to the organization's membership and other interested persons. Members of the AIR have been requested to submit abstracts of institutional studies that would be of general interest to members…

The occupational transferability of skills learned in school and on the job has been studied very little. This paper reports some estimates of the monetary trade-off between specialization and occupational flexibility in the Ph.D's choice of major at undergraduate and graduate school. These estimates are based for the most part on multiple…

Reported upon is the year-long Northwest Educational Cooperative Teacher Training Program in Arlington Heights, Illinois, in which public schools, the educational cooperative (a consortium of 10 school districts), and colleges and universities cooperatively executed an experimental program to train teachers for children with learning disabilities…

This directory lists programs at 67 institutions leading to graduate degrees in instructional technology. For each program, the following information is presented: Degrees offered, number of students, degrees granted in 1968-69, names of full-time and part-time faculty, financial assistance available, and a one-paragraph description of the…

This report of a survey of 1100 full- and part-time Alabama junior college faculty and administrators can be used as a model to measure junior college professional personnel's educational backgrounds, and to assess their needs and desires for furthering their professional and/or graduate education. A complete survey questionnaire is included. (CA)

In cooperation with the Office of Extension Classes and the Continuing Education Program, the College has developed inservice teacher education courses utilizing video tapes and the Victor Electrowriter Remote Blackboard (VERB). These programs are offered for two semester units of graduate extension credit and include eleven 2 1/2-hour sessions.…

This report describes an administrator training program model in which a district-selected trainee and a practicing school administrator in an extern-intern approach work closely with the university and the local school system. Under this system, a trainee would enter a planned administrator training program at an approved institution of higher…