The relationship between student counselors' level of confrontation and personality variables, as measured by the California Psychological Inventory (CPI), was studied. The subjects were 20 graduate students enrolled in two sections of a Counseling Practicum class. Level of confrontation was measured from audio-tape ratings made by the student…

AN ATTEMPT WAS MADE TO DEVELOP A SINGLE SET OF DEFINITIONS, CONCEPTS, AND MEASUREMENT TOOLS TO BE APPLIED UNIFORMLY TO COST ANALYSES OF FOUR PH.D. PROGRAMS IN PHYSICS, ZOOLOGY, SOCIOLOGY, AND ENGLISH. TO GATHER THE REQUIRED INFORMATION ON THE NATURE OF THE COST ESTIMATES WHICH ARE IMPLICIT IN THE SUBSEQUENT RATE OF RETURN ANALYSIS, SITE VISITS…

This is the third annual survey of total graduate and postdoctoral enrollment in science and engineering in the United States. Data elements collected from 7,505 departments of 355 Ph.D.-granting institutions include: enrollment status (full and part-time); level of study (first year and beyond first year); citizenship; sex of students; type…

Recognizing that more faculty time is spent in teaching than in scholarship, and that most graduate departments have provided inadequate preparation for their students to meet the type of teaching demanded by prospective hiring institutions, the author recommends the implementation of several policies to insure proper training of teaching…

Use of the Law School Admission Test (LSAT) and undergraduate grade point average for members of minority groups are examined in relationship to recent LSAT studies and related research on admissions tests and test bias. Traditional predictors of law school grades were found to be as accurate for minority as for majority persons. (JT)

The predictive validity of the Admissions Test for Graduate Study in Business (ATGSB) and alternative predictors for English-speaking and non-English speaking students in a Master's Degree Business Administration Program were investigated. The ATGSB and other variables were found to correlate with success in the program. (Author/JKS)

A course evaluation plan, which utilized midsemester questionnaires and personal interviews, and was based on Stake's responsive approach to evaluation, was implemented during a doctoral seminar. The validity of the plan is attributed to its focus on portrayals and narratives rather than preordinate objectives, experimental controls, or criterion…

A preliminary study that seeks to determine, quantitatively and qualitatively, the effectiveness of externship preceptors in training Purdue University students to practice pharmacy in community and hospital environments is described. Variables that can effect externships are appended. (JMD)

Because the counseling profession places high value on counselors possessing accurate self-awareness, this study investigated the differences and relationships between counselor education students' self-perceived and measured needs levels. A sample of 107 counselor students estimated their needs levels and then completed the Personality Research…

This article discusses the use of a "group helper" to minimize anxiety about audio-taping and role-playing experiences for counselor trainees. Results of this training technique are presented. (Author/HLM)

Aside from general teaching obligations, a major professor also has responsibilities to his students regarding the research problem, funding, time commitment and personal interaction, and the postgraduate job. (Author/LBH)

A FIPSE-sponsored National Task Force on Better Information for Student Choice identified three broad areas of information needs: costs and financial aid; academic offerings and requirements; and the outcomes or results of attendance. These are discussed in terms of graduate programs within the pharmaceutical sciences. (LBH)

A personality construct, preference for course difficulty, was related to test anxiety in a sample of 62 graduate students. Path analysis indicated that trait anxiety directly affects test anxiety and that preference for course difficulty affects test anxiety. The preference for course structure construct was validated. (LMO)

This discussion of the situation of part-time students focuses on generally accepted attitudes toward such students, possible role conflicts between faculty and students who are knowledgeable practitioners, the needs of these students in terms of course content and availability, and the special problems posed by distance education. (CLB)

Demonstrations to graduate education students on the use of the ERIC database for research of children's literature materials involved using the thesaurus and subject indexes. Electronic searches served as follow-up to the classroom instruction, and the advantages of online searching were illustrated through various approaches used to retrieve…