An experience involving graduate students enrolled in a student development preparation program in the direct assessment of undergraduate students' psychological development is described. Two views of student development found in the literature are presented and results of assessment procedures are presented along these lines. Generally, data…

This study compared the effectiveness of three design strategies using nine architecture graduate students to solve three typical room design problems. Open-ended (5 step), traditional (10 step), and systematic (15 step) strategies were developed based on a national survey of design methodologists. Each strategy was applied by three subjects…

The determination of whether or not the Miller Analogies Test (MAT) is a valid screening device to use with a culturally diverse populace was examined. The study was conducted at New Mexico State University (NMSU) using 2 sample groups. Sample A consisted of 560 Anglos and 101 Mexican Americans tested by the NMSU Counseling Center during a 2-year…

The purpose of this study was to compare the effectiveness of three instructional approaches to an established and conceptually related approach, microcounseling. The subjects were thirty-two graduate counseling students, randomly assigned to four treatment groups. These were microcounseling, modified microcounseling, self-modeling and verbal…

Trainers of Teachers of Teachers (TTT) is primarily concerned with the preservice and inservice development of the trainers of teacher trainersand their students through a new pattern of graduate intern experience in a "school clinic" where representatives of the university, the schools, and the community meet in an urban secondary…

The voice of wisdom, embodied in the character of an Old Man, presumably holding impeccable teaching credentials and wielding a sterling teaching record, advises a youthful, idealistic, and not-so-wise graduate student on the ways of the System. Subjects range far and wide, and include dialogues on: (1) teaching college English, freshman…

The present study and a replication investigated the effects of personality variables on test scores obtained under Answer Every Item (AEI), Do Not Guess (DNG) and Coombs' Type (CT) directions. Subjects were administered a dominance scale and extreme scorers randomly assigned to one of the types of directions, then randomly assigned to complete an…

This report concludes that the University -- consciously or not -- is practicing discrimination against women as evidenced by the scarcity of women holding academic appointments. The report starts with a series of recommendations to alleviate this situation and a background discussion of the recommendations; the bulk is devoted to 15 appendices…

This paper deals with three areas: (1) the future job situation for people with doctoral degrees in the natural sciences; (2) the number of graduate students there should be in the natural sciences; and (3) some steps to improve graduate education in the natural sciences. In the Spring of 1970, persons with M.I.T. doctorates in physics and…

The purposes of the study were to determine the influence of age on academic achievement, to investigage meaningful relationships between Graduate Record Examination (GRE) aptitude test scores and graduate grade point ratios (GPR), and to evaluate the student sample in terms of national norms. The assumption underlying the study was that…

Charged with developing rigorous and exacting selection procedures, the professional schools at the University of California, Berkeley, must continually evaluate their programs and students. The aim of this study was to identify on the basis of past experience those factors which have been the best predictors of a student's ability to succeed in…

The purpose of this study was to assess the value of a combination of evaluation-feedback procedures in achieving the objectives of a non-residential graduate-level course in sensitivity training. The three-credit course, involving T Groups of 12 students and a trainer, is a required course for all candidates for a master's degree in elementary…

This study of commuting student use of public libraries was confined to certain key public libraries in the New York counties of Orange, Rockland, Sullivan and a section of Ulster. The purpose of this preliminary enquiry was to determine: (1) what students use public library services, how often and what materials are sought, (2) the attitudes of…

This paper presents a profile of minority graduate students at the University of California, Berkeley. Following a brief overview of Berkeley's Graduate Minority Program (GMP), data is presented concerning the number of GMP students supported; available funds and average grants for students from 1968-69 to 1973-74; distribution of GMP students…

Low (conjunctive), medium (disjunctive), and high (biconditional) level concept attainment problems were used to assess whether high level versus low and/or medium difficulty concept rules yield less positive transfer for observers than models. Direct learning and transfer of models was compared with vicarious learning and transfer of observers.…