The process by which students are selected to perform successfully in graduate schools has generated a literature that is reviewed here to determine what predictors and what criteria are used for graduate student selection and to evaluate the relative success of the predictors used. The bulk of the research involves correlation analysis. The…

This book lists more than 200 graduate reading programs in the United States and Canada. The programs are arranged alphabetically by states, and the programs within each state are arranged alphabetically by institution. Each listing gives the name and address of the person responsible for the reading program, the degrees offered by the institution…

A 45-item questionnaire was sent to the 287 member graduate schools of Council of Graduate Schools in the United States in the fall of 1969. The purpose of the questionnaire was to determine graduate admissions and fellowship selection policies and procedures. A total of 245 usable questionnaires were returned for an 85 percent response rate. The…

This paper discusses the trends in Federal support for doctoral education from 1960-1971. The peak of Federal support was in 1968-69, with funds for fellowships decreasing significantly in the ensuing years. Because of cuts in Federal R&D expenditures many of the new doctorates are no longer as easily absorbed by the job market as in previous…

Every 6 years the number of Ph.D.'s produced doubles. At this point about 1 percent of the babies born 27 years ago gets a Ph.D. This production rate will probably increase to 6 percent of the adult population. With the present situation in higher education, which includes an average retirement after 40 years of service, the supply already…

In 1971-72, 334 students in 16 sections in beginning French, and in 1972-73, 331 students in 24 sections in the same course, rated their graduate student instructors on a 35-item scale. Student performance data on the first, midterm, and final departmental examinations and on SAT-V (1972-73 only) were taken, and residual learning gain (final exam…

This document contains instruments used in the yearly evaluations of the Laboratory for Educational Research (LER) of the University of Colorado between 1966 and 1970. It also includes the instruments used for the summer 1973 LER Summative Evaluation. The purpose of the evaluation was to determine the effectiveness of this research training…

This survey was conducted to obtain specific information about procedures and programs developed for minority and/or disadvantaged students by graduate schools. The purpose of the survey is fourfold: (1) to provide a current detailed description of the status of special programs or activities for minority and/or disadvantaged students by total…

"Graduate education in the U. S. is in trouble." So states the recently released Report of the Task Force established by the Department of Health, Education and Welfare chaired by Frank Newman. This document presents a brief comment of the National Board of Graduate Education upon the major points and recommendations raised in Newmans'…

A sample of faculty members from three fields of study (English, Psychology, Chemistry) responded to a survey eliciting descriptions of specific observable incidents which caused them to change their estimate of the competence of a graduate student. A listing of the incidents retained from the responses, as well as copies of the initial letter of…

This is the first of two monographs reporting the results of a second study of the postcollege careers of 1958 college graduates. A cross-section of persons who received bachelor's and master's degrees in June 1958 were first studied in 1960. A subsample of the 41,497 respondents to the 1960 study were again contacted in 1963 and asked for…

This bibliography summarizes most of the pertinent recent literature on the subject of graduate education. The major categories included are: (1) history and development; (2) students; (3) administrators and faculty; (4) structure and functions; (5) instruction and research; (6) manpower; and (7) costs and financing. Topical and author indexes…

This investigation examines the student careers of 25 women who were enrolled as graduate students in sociology at the University of Michigan during 1967. Specifically, the study suggests that for those women with focused involvement and peripheral sex role orientation, the likely career pattern is continuation until Ph.D. completion and the most…

This study tested the hypotheses that, following training in concept learning strategies, subjects would tend to follow the strategy taught and would perform better than untrained subjects. A sample of 60 graduate students was randomly assigned to three groups. The experimental task, administered via a computer teletype terminal, required subjects…

The concept of Delphi technique was presented in a computer-assisted instruction (CAI) module designed for educational administration classes or inservice training of administrators. Instructional Dialogue Facility (IDF) Author Language on a 2000F Hewlett-Packard time-sharing system was used to write the sequence. Instructional objectives,…