Researches the relationship between the PhD student and supervisor. Examines two strategies used by supervisors in supervising social science students: a loosely structured approach and a tightly controlled one. Finds that effective supervision depends one a balanced involvement with students, and the possession of certain qualities such as…

Offers advice to graduate students studying English and those studying foreign languages, covering issues relevant to candidates for master's degrees or doctorates. Suggests questions to ask when selecting a graduate program, including those related to investigating the program and inquiring about employment and financial assistance, teaching…

One university's business college implemented a program, in the context of a business-related curriculum, to help international graduate students acquire academic writing skills necessary to fulfill their writing requirements. They formed a partnership with the linguistics program and developed a course, professional writing for business…

Provides suggestions, information, and resources for advisors to use in assisting students to obtain tenure-track counselor-education positions. Recommendations for research are also presented. (Author)

Reports the views of two deaf American graduate students to an intern experience at a school for the deaf in China. Also explains critical procedures to establishing such international internships, necessary cultural and educational accommodations, and issues related to communication modality, educational philosophy, expectations for deaf…

Examines grammaticality judgments on dative constructions among Korean, Japanese, and Chinese learners of English by replicating Ellis (1991). Focus is on predicting the learners' judgments on the grounds of lexical functional grammar (LFG). Examines six predictions derived mainly from LFG. (Author/VWL)

Investigated the role of phonological and orthographic processing skills in second-language reading of 60 native-Farsi-speaking English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) graduate students. Three types of ESL reading variables were used: reading and comprehension, silent reading rate, and ability to recognize individual words. Efficiency in phonological…

Argues that concern about the quality of Australian doctoral education should focus on research-based wholistic responses to rapid growth in candidate numbers, a more diverse doctoral student population, and increasingly flexible research and study patterns. Urges integrating all aspects of the doctoral education experience and a focus on…

The Procrastination Inventory developed for use with doctoral students in clinical psychology was modified for use with all-but-dissertation students and doctoral graduates in a college of education. Factor and Rasch analyses of the revised measure identified three subscales: (1) procrastination, (2) perfectionism, and (3) graduate school comfort.…

Explores a self-reflexive effort to engage teachers, administrators, and community leaders in qualitative inquiry within a multicultural feminist framework. In graduate courses emphasizing feminist pedagogy and research in urban settings, students conducted research projects designed to transform existing social inequities in their lived…

Explores students' self-perceptions of their classroom participation as compared to peer and instructor perception. Finds significant correlation between instructor and peer rankings, while the correlation between self and instructor rankings was not significant. Concludes that students rated themselves as participating at higher levels than both…

Analyzes the status of graduate music programs in the United States from 1994-95 by surveying 120 colleges and universities, both public and private, representing all 50 states. Compares the findings to an earlier study conducted in 1984-85 in order to determine various changes that have occurred. Discusses the findings in detail. (CMK)

Research on mature graduate students' approaches to learning indicates that quantitative conceptions of learning predominate, but also suggests an additional model. Examines empirical data concerning the stability of these conceptions over time in the context of graduate education, and argues for further research into a conception which holds that…

The purpose of this split-sample regression study was to determine whether quantitative and verbal scores on the Graduate Management Admissions Test, undergraduate grade point averages, age, and gender differentially predicted performance for 198 MBA students. Findings suggest that commonly used predictor variables may predict achievement…

Many graduate students lack the capacity for self-authorship, the ability to develop one's own perspective. Data from a longitudinal study of sixteen students, begun in their first year of college, illustrates the difficulty of moving from embracing multiple perspectives to constructing self-authored perspectives. The stories of three graduate…