This study examined the relationship between level of experience and application of prior financial knowledge on the ability of auditing students and professionals to answer questions about financial statements. This study answers the following questions: (1) Is there a positive relationship between experience and the number of causal relations…

Although the quest for better measurement of individual job performance has generated considerable empirical research in industrial and organizational psychology, the feeling persists that a good job is not really being done in measuring job performance. This research project investigated the effects of differences in both individual and systems…

The technology, symbol systems, and processing capabilities of a medium interact to provide unique opportunities for information access. This exploratory study examines the way that learners process videotaped materials on a familiar or unfamiliar topic as informed by text-based research. A variation of the think-aloud method of assessing…

The aim of this study was to develop a criterion of graduate school success as an alternative to first-year average. Faculty rating scales of students' analytical abilities were developed as a potential criterion against which to validate both the current Graduate Record Examinations (GRE) analytical measure and its future modifications. The…

This study examined faculty attitudes toward doctoral persistence, using open-ended interviews with 40 faculty in 6 disciplines at a Carnegie Classification Research I university. It found that the overriding theme that emerged from the interviews was the investment of time and energy with doctoral students. The majority of faculty reported that…

Concern over the under representation of women and minorities in the natural sciences and engineering led to the research reported in this document. The project surveyed a stratified sample of 1,651 college seniors who registered to take the Graduate Record Examination (GRE) and who were majoring in natural sciences, mathematics, computer…

Graduate schools have responded to the problem of graduate student attrition by placing greater emphasis on selection, assuming that better, more informed admission decisions would result in declining attrition. Yet the problem persists, and the question arises as to whether attrition is due to individual characteristics of graduate students or to…

The purpose of this study was to compare the scores of students who were allowed unlimited retakes of a multiple-choice test with the scores of students who were limited to only four retakes (five trials) of the same test. The tests were each made up of 20 randomly drawn questions from a large pool of questions about research methods. Three…

This monograph presents selected perspectives on the status of graduate studies in health education and related issues of interest to graduate students and the professionals who prepare them. The publication is in 13 chapters: (1) "Graduate Education in Health Education: Keeping Perspective, Building Momentum" (A. C. Henderson); (2)…

This paper addresses the issue of whether second language (L2) learners can reset parameters, by testing English speakers learning Spanish on their ability to reset the subjacency and bounding node parameters. The bounding nodes are IP and NP in English and CP and NP in Spanish. Eight American graduate students, highly proficient in the Spanish…

A study investigated the relationship of transactional models of stress management and appraisal-emotion relationships to emotions produced by taking a new job. The participants, 231 graduate students, completed measures of cognitive appraisals, stress coping resources, and emotional reactions at the time of taking a new job and some time later.…

Psychologists starting their careers now have a bleaker view of the job market than those who started a decade or more ago. Ways in which new doctoral graduates in psychology can find their first jobs in professional psychology are explored in this paper. The focus is upon what reviewers and interviewers may look for in the curriculum vitae of…

Summer 1995 saw an increased enrollment in graduate study at William Carey College (Mississippi) and this rapid growth established a need for student input concerning graduate courses. Graduate staff were largely interested in student satisfaction particularly with course offerings, time and location of offerings, and future interests of students.…

When faced with the challenging idea that they too, must write as part of their job as teachers, most of the graduate students in an English education class voiced deep frustration about and resistance to such a request. They heatedly argued that their teaching and course loads allowed them little or no time to write, that it was unreasonable to…

This directory provides current information about over 750 funding opportunities open to Americans interested in structured or independent study abroad. The directory is divided into three separate sections: a descriptive list of financial aid programs established to support study and training abroad; an annotated bibliography of directories…