Considered the process employed in selecting applicants for doctoral training in counseling through systematically investigating the admissions criteria used by the faculty of one counseling department. Of the number of categories available, approximately 45 percent were regarded as unimportant in making an assessment. (Author)

Applies the concept of socialization to the question of why academic librarians are ill-prepared to accept the research and publication requirements of faculty rank and status, discusses mechanisms of the socialization process in librarian and faculty training, and suggests alterations in the mechanisms applied to librarians. (Author/FM)

In order to expose graduate students to issues confronting and being confronted by nursing, the Great Debate was conceived at the University of Alabama School of Nursing (Birmingham). For two years, in the fall quarter, approximately 65 students in five major clinical specialty areas, by exploring current issues, have engaged in two 2-hour debate…

Describes a study of graduate students at West Virginia University that examined the effects of Internet instruction on the attitudes of learners toward a new innovation before, during, and after the instruction. Responses from the stages of concern instrument are discussed, and results of regressions are described in appendices. (Author/LRW)

A survey of 250 graduate research students examined the extent of dependency on supervisors in a range of research-related tasks, and how that dependency affected the research supervision process. Results suggest appropriate research supervision has no set prescription, but interactions among quality and style of supervision, role expectations of…

Addresses the question of what graduate students should know about fields of English in which they are not specializing. Finds the best answer is to teach "the classics." Illustrates with the example of a course on "The Faerie Queene" and "Paradise Lost," to show students how to work with texts and what can be…

Uses Bloom's Taxonomy of Educational Objectives to fine-tune the process of designing, preparing for, evaluating, and providing feedback about the doctoral comprehensive examination. Examines the purpose and objectives of comprehensive examinations, curriculum design, preparation for the exam, test item development, evaluation criteria, and…

Based on a previous study, which created a list of "great books" in student affairs practice, examines the extent to which these books are used in graduate programs. Results indicate little consensus in student affairs regarding a literature base. The identification of a book as "great" is probably temporary. (RJM)

In a theory/lecture course with limited use of case method, it is possible to get students to choose case study questions on examinations if topics are interesting, attention directing, and well understood. Case study test questions give students opportunities for critical analysis and self-expression. (SK)

Reviews selected studies of graduate student persistence in a program of study and highlights findings most influential in students' decisions to complete a program or drop out. Reviews student persistence, the distance education student profile, persistence in distance education, and persistence in distance education doctoral programs. (SLD)

Questioned international students in the University of the Incarnate Word's organizational leadership doctoral program about how teachers can develop needed cultural and linguistic sensitivity. Students offered several suggestions related to increasing classroom support and cultural awareness. (EV)

Reviews recent studies on new faculty and on graduate students aspiring to a faculty career, documenting deficiencies in graduate education and the need for better bridges between doctoral preparation and the actual work of faculty. (EV)

Explores whether graduate education adequately prepares doctoral students for the varied responsibilities of the professoriate they plan to enter, and what role other kinds of institutions (such as community and liberal arts colleges) and the Preparing Future Faculty program could play in the education of graduate students for the professoriate.…

Examines graduate student teaching assistants' (TAs') adjustment to their first teaching experience in first-year composition (FYC) classrooms. Notes that the experience mirrors that of their FYC students. Considers how both new groups work within initially uncomfortable but ultimately developmentally positive levels of ambiguity, multiplicity,…

Most research indicating dissonant forms of student learning engagement, leading to problems in the achievement of learning outcomes, is with undergraduates. Action research at Anglia Polytechnic University involving questionnaires, focus groups, and supervisory dialogues, conducted with Israeli and British postgraduate students between 1998 and…