This study was undertaken to provide a profile of students enrolled in doctoral programs in student affairs administration during the 1988-1989 academic year. Questionnaires were sent to the administrative heads of doctoral programs in student affairs administration at the 58 institutions in the United States listed in the American College…

This study presents an experimental analogue of resistance in the consultation process. Using an ABAB reversal design, the experimenter measured the ecological effects of teacher resistant behaviors on consultant therapeutic behavior. The study defined therapeutic behaviors as teaching, confronting and problem identification, analysis, and…

Paper delivered at the Eighth Annual Conference on the Teaching of Undergraduate Psychology, Northern Illinois University, De Kalb, Illinois, November 17, 1967.

Causal modeling is examined for its heuristic value by describing its use in an introductory course in educational evaluation, and presenting a student-developed model. Subjects included students in either master's programs in statistics or doctoral programs in administration and curriculum. Before preparing an evaluation plan and path analysis,…

Proceedings are presented of the first conference on graduate vocational education. Papers read at that conference discuss the following topics: (1) The Quest for Quality--Guidelines for the Search; (2) Motivation for the Search for Quality in Graduate Vocational Education; (3) Dimensions of Quality--The Student's View; (4) Dimensions of…

IT HAS BEEN FOUND TO BE ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE TO IDENTIFY "GOOD" CHARACTERISTICS OF ADMINISTRATORS AND TO TEACH THESE CHARACTERISTICS TO GRADUATE STUDENTS FOR ADMINISTRATION PREPARATION. THEREFORE, THE EMPHASIS OF THE MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY PROGRAM FOR EDUCATION MEDIA SPECIALISTS IS PLACED UPON PRACTICAL EXPERIENCE OF ADMINISTRATION…

The National Security Council decided in Spring 1967 that deferments should not be provided for first or second-year male graduate students in other than medical fields. The Council of Graduate Schools and the Scientific Manpower Commission then sent questionnaires to US graduate schools to determine how many male students would not be deferred,…

A study of all Graduate Record Examination (GRE) scores reported to Hofstra University between September 1963 and February 1968 revealed that 27 persons had repeated the verbal part of the GRE, 27 retook the quantitative part, and 39 retook the advanced test. The interval between test and retest ranged from 2 to 40 months. The GRE scores of…

This report presents some statistical data on black graduate student applicants. Twenty-five major graduate schools were requested to supply information on the number of identifiable black applicants by field; 11 were able to supply the data. They were: Berkeley, Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Harvard, Princeton, Minnesota, MIT, Syracuse, University of…

The contention of this study is that persons perceive and interpret the behavior sequences of others differently as a function of the relative degree of their own experience and feeling of personal causation. Subjects were 96 paid female graduate students, representing the two extreme groups on the Rotter's Internal External Scale (I-E). All I's…

This progress report of the Advisory Council on Women's Opportunities at the University of Pittsburgh discusses: (1) the history of the Council, and (2) the operating procedures, including some of the major problems encountered both within the Council and from outside the group itself. Its major aim has been to conduct a study on the position of…

As a first step in "improving and building up" the graduate program at the Wisconsin State University at Stevens Point, a study of graduate students was initiated in 1967. It examined the interrelationships of their graduate majors, undergraduate majors and colleges, high school deciles and class size, age, sex, level taught, geographic…

This study examines evaluations of various aspects of research training held by directors of, and graduate students in, counseling psychology training programs, both APA-approved programs and a sample of non-approved ones. While nearly all respondents feel it desirable to require full courses in both counseling research methodology and content,…

This study examines the relationship between the graduate student's political self-characterization and his responses to attitude questions, and tests the influence on his relationship to the variables of political interest and academic contest. Part one, ideological consistency, discusses the sample group, selection of indicators, analysis of…