Discusses the review and revision of the ethics code of the International Association of Marriage and Family Counselors as a training tool for students in the mental health professions. Describes the revision proposal process undertaken by students in the Counseling Psychology and Counselor Education program at the University of Colorado at…

Describes the Holmes Scholars Network, a national mentoring program for graduate students from racial and cultural groups currently underrepresented in the education professoriate who are preparing to become college faculty in teacher education. Describes how the network operates through the levels of the Holmes Partnerships organizational…

Examined the effects of job attributes and student characteristics on graduate professional students' job attraction using two theoretical models. Dental students evaluated content-validated descriptions of three professional job options. Results indicated that significant predictors were job attributes, job attributes-by-gender interactions, and…

Discusses the increasing influence that the graduate student caucus is having on the Modern Language Association. Graduate students are now well represented on the organization's delegate assembly and executive council. Critics see the students as using fear and intimidation to press their needs in a bleak job market over other organizational…

Summarizes the difficulties likely to be experienced in Science-Technology-Society graduate education and research, and gives the reasons for optimism nevertheless. Concludes with an optimistic note about the future. (Author/NB)

Estimates relationships among graduate economics programs' attributes and recent Ph.Ds' occupational choices and publishing proficiency. Research experience in graduate school is positively associated with subsequent publishing proficiency. Other variables include graduate school ranking, graduate school faculty size and publishing proficiency,…

Describes an online course in which graduate students collaboratively investigated and shared personal experiences with respect to adult development. Topics include naturalistic inquiry that was used to identify issues that characterized course dynamics; adult education; flexibility of course; co-construction of meaning; and the expression of…

Offers a framework for being a mentor while engaging feminist praxis (promoting women, people of color, and others marginalized within the academy and assisting them in negotiations with the academy). Discusses strategies that have been useful in choosing a mentor, mentoring undergraduate and graduate students, and the experience of being a…

Studied the effects of a combination of student collaboration, concept mapping, and electronic technologies with 26 students in a graduate level learning theories class. Findings suggest that concept mapping and collaborative learning techniques complement each other, and that students found the combined approach useful. (SLD)

Argues that prevailing approaches to educating graduate students as teachers need to be broadened conceptually and in practice. Suggests that preparing graduate students to teach constitutes only one component of a two-fold responsibility of graduate programs: to educate their students as both researchers and teachers. (Author/VWL)

This paper presents a bidding strategy that may be incorporated into case-intensive courses. The purpose of the bidding process is to equitably distribute credit when students are assigned cases of differing degrees of difficulty. The paper also collects data to help answer a basic research question regarding this device: Is there evidence of…

Although there is consensus that qualitative approaches to social research are distinguished from quantitative approaches by their fundamental philosophical systems, there is resistance to incorporating philosophical distinctions into graduate level research courses. Resistance may be due to the recognition that students have limited experience…

Focus group discussions offer participants time to discuss particular topics. This article discusses some results of several graduate students' attempts to implement focus group research. After a brief review of literature reflecting the use of focus groups and recommendations for their use, the author reports their reactions and their…

M.Y. Math Project is a developmental mathematics program that is aimed at: (1) fostering fundamental and problem-solving skills in developmental mathematics students by helping them to learn when and how to create and use algorithms; and (2) providing on-the-job training for developmental mathematics instructors through an instructional framework…

Background: There exist a number of textual sources of advice concerning the provision of effective doctoral supervision. This academic material aimed at both supervisors and students makes assumptions both about the conduct of science and the contemporary nature of higher education as a setting for inducting students into the academy. Purpose:…