This document outlines the roles and responsibilities of teaching assistants and gives suggestions for making their initial contact with teaching easier. Teaching assistants can overcome first-job apprehension by acquiring information about the assignment through the course instructor, faculty advisor, and other teaching assistants. Benefits…

To determine what percentage of master's level graduate programs in counselor education recommend or require the purchase of malpractice insurance for their students, a 20 percent random sample of 287 master's level counselor education programs, listed in "Graduate Study in Psychology, 1982-83," were surveyed. The return rate was 80 percent (N=46…

Thirty graduate students were asked to produce a type of semantic information; they named psychologists who satisfied certain restrictions. Not only was the speed in responding influenced by the speed in which restrictions were given, but the effect of order differed for advanced and beginning students. (Author/RC)

This bibliography summarizes the most recent literature concerning graduate education. It is intended to be selective rather than exhaustive in its coverage, and the subject matter is mainly restricted to the traditional areas of graduate education. Representative publications focusing on or directly related to graduate education that were…

For five years graduate students in the Oakland Project of the University of California at Berkeley have been working at jobs in the city of Oakland while continuing their studies. This paper describes the Oakland Project and seeks to extract from it considerations important to the design of any university-city relationship. In the Oakland…

This report examines the literature on the graduate student seeking the Ph.D. in the arts and sciences, the claims made about graduate student status, and research supporting or negating such claims. Major findings show that: (1) graduate students are concentrated in prestigious universities and most graduate students receive their undergraduate…

The admissions process in graduate education is heavily criticized for poor recruitment procedures and the use of criteria unrelated to academic success. This review examines the factors related to student enrollment in graduate programs, the policies and procedures followed by graduate departments, and draws some implications for the improvement…

This study identified the characteristics of 456 of the 524 students who were granted a master's degree by the School of Education of De Paul University from 1966 through 1969 in one of the following 9 areas: business education; curriculum directorship; elementary education; guidance and counseling; reading; school administration; and secondary…

This document presents the results of a comprehensive study of post-doctoral education in Ontario. Some of the findings include: (1) almost 60% of the post-doctoral students were in the physical sciences, 21% in the life and health sciences, 15% in the mathematical sciences and engineering, and only 3.4% were studying in the humanities and social…

Presented in this document is a series of tables dealing with the nationality of graduate students attending universities in Ontario. The data are arranged by: (1) citizenship of graduate students of all disciplines for all universities; (2) citizenship of doctoral students of all disciplines for all universities; (3) citizenship of master's…

Services currently offered at the University of California, Berkeley, Library are evaluated in terms of their special or potential relevance to graduate students, especially as they meet students' needs in the various stages of their graduate careers--course work, dissertation proposal, dissertation research, and dissertation writing. (Author)

Application to analysis, planning, and scheduling of dissertation research and writing. (DAG)

Examined process of self-efficacy expectation development, coping with difficult task, and task performance using job interview task with 78 subjects. Results suggest self-efficacy theory generalizes to a career-related task, and that emotion-focused coping mediates the relationship between self-efficacy expectations and perceived performance, but…

Reports on a survey of 447 graduate psychology programs in the United States and Canada concerning preparation of graduate students for classroom teaching and supervising the work of others in applied and research settings. Finds acceptance for idea that graduates should be prepared for teaching and supervising in applied settings but shows less…