Offers school administrators advice on how to be successful as adjunct professors. Includes strategies for landing a part-time teaching assignment. (PKP)

Surveyed new faculty about the pivotal events in their graduate teaching experiences which contributed positively and negatively to their professional development as teacher scholars. Responses fell into the areas of scholastic, planning, management, presentation and communication, evaluation and feedback, and interpersonal skills. (EV)

Presents a rationale for graduate students' use of semistructured interviews to enhance the interpretation of data derived from questionnaire returns. The writer experienced deeper understanding of the data and intense satisfaction with results when using this technique in a research project involving new teachers. Includes eight references. (MLH)

Surveyed 53 coordinators of college student personnel/student development preparation programs to examine monetary compensation of graduate assistants, number of work hours required, duties, compensation in addition to or other than pay, course load restrictions, number of students enrolled in program with assistantships, and tuition costs.…

Examined effects of pregroup training on graduate student group members' anxiety levels. State anxiety increased nonsignificantly for experimental subjects (n=15) from pretest to 4-week posttest, then decreased significantly from 4 to 12 weeks. For controls (n=16), state anxiety decreased significantly from pretest to 4-week posttest, then…

Vitamin and mineral supplements were taken by 67% of 88 women and 52% of 88 men surveyed. Reasons included disease prevention and inadequate diet. Women took calcium and iron more frequently. Those who did not take them cited adequate diet and expense. Influence of advertising on supplement use was a concern. (SK)

Studied the effectiveness of a self-monitoring method designed to help impulsive students overcome their unwillingness to self-monitor. Results with 121 graduate students show that self-monitoring helps in learning the heuristics of solving mathematical problems and that self-monitoring is more helpful for impulsive students. (SLD)

Describes graduate students' personal genograms as an exercise to facilitate training in systems thinking. Discussion covers the objectives, the assignment, evaluation of the students' work, and evaluation of the exercise. (Author/MKA)

This investigation tests the hypothesis that perceptions of general and multicultural counseling competence are distinct constructs. The findings question the validity of the assumption that general and multicultural counseling competence are separate constructs, particularly for certain clients. The implications of these findings for future…

The writing of academic abstracts is more than a tiresome necessity of scholarly life. It is a practice that goes beyond genre and technique to questions of writing and identity. In this article we deconstruct a series of abstracts from a variety of refereed journals to 'read' for the representation of data, argument, methodology and significance.…

New research training agendas necessarily bring with them renewed attention on the professional development of research supervisors. This paper charts specific aspects of the University of Sydney's Postgraduate Supervision Development Programme, particularly the development of a new innovation called the Recognition Module. The Recognition Module…

This article presents the author's response to the article "The Sociology of Teaching Graduate Statistics" by Timothy Patrick Moran. Moran takes on the admirable task of trying to improve the teaching graduate statistics. Like many good teachers, he makes controversial and thought-provoking statements designed to promote discussion and debate.…

We explored how women talk about feminism and feminists and position themselves in relation to a feminist identity within a conversational setting. Nine pairs of female graduate and senior undergraduate students talked about feminism in sessions lasting 60 minutes. Sessions were analyzed using discourse analysis. Participants positioned themselves…

This article presents the decision of the First Intermediate People's Court of Beijing regarding the Liu Yanwen v. Degree Evaluation Committee of Beijing University case. The appellant Liu Yanwen was denied a doctoral degree and thus, he sued Beijing University. He disagreed with an earlier ruling made by the People's Court in Haiding District,…

Educational research as an academic field can be understood as a network or group of networks and, therefore, to consist of interconnected nodes that structure the way the field operates and understands its purpose. This paper deals with the nature of the induction of postgraduate students into the network of educational research that takes place…