The advanced education in general dentistry program at the Eastman Dental Center (Rochester, NY) operates an after-hours clinic simulating private practice. With an optional financial incentive program for students in lieu of a fixed stipend, the clinic's fee income has increased substantially. Advantages and potential abuses are discussed. (MSE)

Discussion of procedures for selecting appropriate media in instructional development projects highlights a study that examined media selection decisions of instructional development graduate students under intuitive and model-directed decision-making conditions. Use of the Reiser-Gagne media selection flowchart is described, and implications for…

Describes a Board of Regents summer program designed to help prepare new Black graduate students for graduate education at the University of Florida. The history, objectives, participants, program, evaluation, and implications are described. (TE)

Features researchers reviewed by the AASA Advisory Committee on Higher Education Relationships and selected to present research findings at the 1989 AASA convention. Iris McGinnis won the Research Award in the graduate student research category for work on school board participation in contract bargaining. Two other commendation awards are…

Describes basic concepts in the field of general systems theory (GST) and explains the relationship between instructional systems design (ISD) and GST. Benefits of integrating GST into the curriculum of ISD graduate programs are discussed, and a short bibliography on GST is included. (LRW)

Explored how six humanistically oriented graduate students reconciled self and social responsibility. Results suggest that personal growth, meaningful work experiences, and social change values may be related. Generated questions for further empirical research. (Author/ABL)

Examined counseling self-efficacy and counseling skills over time in a graduate practicum class of 50 master's degree students. Found efficacy increased with training, but its relationship to performance was weak. Concludes that development of accurate and high efficacy may be as important as the development of reliable skills. (Author/ABL)

Studied the influence of prior treatment history of a mentally retarded child and identity of the treatment mediator on the rating of alternative treatment procedures by 105 graduate education and 53 undergraduate psychology students. Found that treatment history partially influenced ratings but mediator identity had no effect. (FMW)

Deplores the widespread practice of having graduate students with no teaching experience teach composition classes. Advocates (1) having tenured faculty teach one composition class per year, and (2) requiring graduate students to take a course in teaching composition before teaching it. (SR)

Reviews two studies on the best strategy for choosing teaching assistants. Measures teacher prowess by questioning students, level of student performance, and scores on a practical exam. Concludes that knowledge of subject and characteristics of undergraduate school attended can be used as predictors. (RT)

Examines faculty/student relationship in required research projects in aging. Discusses joint research project undertaken by Social Work and Health Sciences faculty and students at one university. Presents implications of experience for integration of faculty and student efforts, emphasizing teamwork rather than free student labor. (Author/NB)

Explored personal and situational sources of cooperation. Assessed MBA students' disposition to cooperate and randomly assigned them to simulated organizations emphasizing either collectivistic or individualistic cultural values. Coworkers rated cooperative subjects in collectivistic cultures as most cooperative. Cooperative people were most…

The "Program Evaluation Standards" supplies a useful framework for generating questions to raise about any evaluation plan or evaluation report to assess its pros and cons. It is a valuable "how-to" for graduate students and professionals. This second edition incorporates changes in the field in the last decade. (SLD)

An overview of mentoring (including culture- and gender-neutral suggestions for all mentors and mentees) offers advice on guiding graduate students and young faculty in the humanities through the shoals of preparation for, and then work (mostly teaching) in, academe. Author sees mentoring as a pragmatic and altruistic "not a normative" activity,…

Examined associations of two different response sets on the Infrequent Response Index of the Strong Interest Inventory. In one, 25 participants responded to each item randomly; in the other, 25 participants deliberately misrepresented their responses. Finding scores higher than those proposed in Strong Interest Inventory manual for Infrequent…