Assesses the effectiveness of previous grade point average, Graduate Record Examination (GRE) scores, personal references, work experience, and personal goals as predictors of student performance in library school. Previous grade point average and GRE scores are found to be the best predictors for overall student performance. Nineteen references…

Describes a course on food habits during which students studied and applied the basic principles of behavior modification. (MA)

This paper describes the two-year Master of Family Therapy Program at the Hahnemann Medical College in Philadelphia. The program entered its third year in 1979. It is based on a relational, or contextual, model of family therapy, influenced primarily by the ideas and theoretical constructs of Ivan Boszormenyi-Nagy. (Author)

Studied beginning counseling practicum students receiving supervision from advanced doctoral counseling students. Results indicated a positive relationship existed between trainees' perceptions of: supervisor characteristics, the therapeutic relationship, and satisfaction with supervision; but no significant relationship between ratings of…

A study of 1290 students in four New England colleges of pharmacy has demonstrated that the preferred practice (or nonpractice) setting of students is influenced by the college of pharmacy attended, year in school, grade point average, sex, and the nature and extent of internship and externship experience. (Author)

A study of student assessment of teaching assistants in physical education activity courses is described. The purpose of the study was to compare student ratings of instructional effectiveness with teaching assistants' traits of sex, age, degree, undergraduate major, and teaching experience. (MLW)

Presents a model for the supervision of counselor training practica. The theoretical basis for the model is an instructional analysis of counseling effectiveness that borrows heavily from the discipline of instructional psychology, particularly in the areas of instructional theory and design, and the analysis of instructional skills and…

Survey data from 165 students entering three Canadian MBA programs were examined for relationships between personal characteristics and importance of program attributes to the students. Strongest program attributes were teaching by case method and social life. Strongest student characteristics were student's age and native language. (MSE)

A course in consultation is increasingly becoming part of the required graduate curriculum of counseling psychologists/counselors who are training for employment in mental health and educational settings. This practical model for teaching consultation skills includes didactic presentations, demonstrations, and simulation experiences. (Author)

Data from the Social Science Citation Index are used to measure the differential productivity among graduates of established and prestigiuos doctoral programs. Quality of former graduate students' productivity (publications) is assessed. Patterns concerning the quality of productivity, both across departments and within alumni of the same…

Reports on the Dreyfus Foundation Conference held in Boston at Northeastern University. The proceedings are outlined and some statistics are presented on the supply and demand for chemistry graduates. (Author/SA)

A study of 44 graduate students from a private university was designed to determine the contribution of academic factors to the prediction of graduate school grade point average (GPA). Undergraduate GPA makes a significant contribution to predicting graduate GPA. None of the verbal tests were predictive. (Author)

A group of graduate students (N=11) were trained according to a popular "helping" model which purports to increase the ability to be facilitative. It was found that graduates were more facilitative after training, were able to train others, and that this type of facilitation ability may be related to self-facilitation. (Author)

The influence of sex and college major on nonverbal acuity was measured by asking graduate students (N=100) to identify nonverbal information about emotional states from 150 pictures. Results showed females were more accurate than males. Results are discussed regarding counselor training because of no significant difference between counseling and…

Counseling interviews (N=19) were rated on the Counselor Rating Form in terms of perceived counselor expertness, attractiveness, and trustworthiness. Results indicated all three sources of perceptions were similar, although counselors rated their own behavior as significantly less expert than their clients. (Author)