The first of two experiments on direct evaluation procedures involved students' judgments of how well they understood terms and concepts presented in a course. In the second, responses to short examination-type questions were obtained. In both, a class comprehension index was sufficiently sensitive to detect differences due to instruction.…

Student circulation of books in 43 major academic disciplines were examined for two patterns: (1) the extent to which students majoring in one subject use the books of another and (2) the extent to which books in one subject are read by students majoring in others. Graduate and undergraduate patterns are compared. (Author/JD)

Examined extent of anxiety experienced by beginning practicum students in their initial client interviews. Results indicated subjects were more anxious on physiological and self-report measures of anxiety during the interview than during reading. Conclusions were that the counseling interview is anxiety-evoking. Anxiety is accounted for by…

Chicago State's school-university cooperative program meets the requirements for accreditation and establishes rapport between teacher preparation institutions and actual schools. (LH)

Construct validity of the Personal Orientation Inventory was investigated. A sample of graduate students were administered the inventory immediately after a stressful experience and again two weeks later after the stressful experience had been resolved. Two of the twelve inventory subscales, Self Regard and Self Acceptance showed significant…

The experience of the first two years of the Annual Summer Institute in Evaluation Research is reviewed based on participants' assessments following the training sessions. Overall, the Institute appears to be successfully imparting evaluation skills to social scientists with varied backgrounds and experiences. (Author/MV)

A questionnaire concerning graduate offerings in psychology of aging was mailed to 238 departments of psychology throughout the United States. Of the 191 responses, 16 departments were found to offer a formal program of graduate study in gerontological psychology. Presented at the American Psychological Association meeting, Washington, September,…

Contends that a backlash is emerging against cultural studies in the humanities and the humanistic social sciences, and that attacking cultural studies is frequently a way of expressing fatigue with issues of race, class, and gender. Considers the need for an explicitness about collegiality and professional academic life that is direct but not…

Generalizabilty theory was used to examine the dependability of anchoring labels of Likert-type scales. In samples of 173 graduate students and 108 graduate students completing attitude measures, variance components associated with labeling were found to be minute, contributing little to observed score variance. Possible explanations are…

Describes the protocol surrounding the job search process at the Modern Language Association (MLA) as a means of maximizing the chances that a candidate will find it comfortable, civil and fair. (TB)

Results of a study show that three groups of graduate students agreed with the underlying principles of bilingual education, but only graduate students in bilingual education clearly supported the use of the first language in school. (Author/VWL)

Describes the co-leading experience of a trainee who is paired with a senior therapist. Explores the advantages and disadvantages of this approach for training counselors in group work. Provides recommendations to prospective trainees and supervising co-leaders. (KW)

Israeli graduate nursing students who took management courses in 1998 (n=25), 1999 (n=15), and 2000 (n=11) rated the importance of different value sets. All three groups ranked personal and professional values significantly higher than organizational values such as vision, competition, cooperation, risk taking, and status. (Contains 29…

Explored issues related to student evaluation in higher education through responses of 40 faculty members to a scenario involving the evaluation of a graduate student whose thesis did not meet the teacher's expectations. Findings illuminate the clash between instructors' concerns for their students and the need to evaluate them according to…

Compares satisfaction of two groups of graduate students enrolled in the same graduate-level technology course: one using the traditional in-class instructional method (synchronous); the other using Internet-based instruction (asynchronous). Finds, for example, that students receiving Internet-based instruction completed their assignments in…