Draws on an analysis of graduate-level health care practice courses from 53 accredited schools so as to examine curricular content and practice. Results show that content was infrequently included in course outlines. Focuses on changes in the health care environment, course units, theoretical models, reading lists, and course requirements. (RJM)

The impact of an integrative multicultural training program on the development of white racial identity and interracial comfort was examined. Counseling graduate students participated in the training. Psychometric data and factor structures are provided for the White Racial Consciousness Development Scale and the Interracial Comfort Index.…

Discusses numerous solutions to enlarging the pool of interested and qualified undergraduate students of color, attracting and retaining graduate students of color and helping them in the job search, and increasing the numbers of faculty members of color. Notes that these include funding, mentoring, and coverage and validation of interdisciplinary…

This synthesis derived from literature on effective teaching and learning motivation consolidates the current and best knowledge available for post-secondary educators interested in instructional improvement. It presents ten key motivating principles which graduate teaching assistants and other educators can use to inform their instructional…

Looks at conversation in Japanese between native and nonnative speaking peers. Focuses on other-repair, taking the conversation analytic approach to phenomena in nonnative discourse. Identifies a range of speaking practices as well as embodied resources that are understood by recipients as inviting or initiating other repair. (Author/VWL)

Uses grounded theory procedures to explore the experiences of six group counselors-in-training throughout a 15-week supervision group. Results illuminate a theoretical foundation that highlights participation anxiety as a condition that affects the interrelated and interactive processes of how and what supervisees learn in group supervision.…

Describes the effects of and universities' response to a recent National Labor Relations Board decision which defined graduate assistants at private institutions as employees, giving them the right to organize, collectively bargain, and strike. Includes a sidebar on the effects of the graduate student union at the University of Iowa. (EV)

Determines whether the Doctor of Arts and the departmentalized Doctor of Education degrees in biology are successful in achieving their goals. Surveys graduates from two of the most active programs offering teaching doctorates in biology. (SAH)

As a part of a larger hermeneutic phenomenology study, six white graduate students in a student affairs graduate program described themselves as connected to family, place, race, and ethnicity. Such connections are contrasted with descriptions in the literature of white culture as individualistic. These connections have implications for student…

Offers graduate students advice about preparing papers for publication. Discusses why graduate students and other junior scholars should publish; what work habits a scholar needs to develop; how a scholar solicits feedback; and procedures for working with scholarly journal editors and reviewers. (TB)

Graduate students (n=314) surveyed were positive about computers and used a variety of applications in their academic work. They wanted more formal training in computers. Responses by age and gender did not vary. The more instruction they completed and more hours they used computers correlated with the use of more applications. (Contains 46…

Presents a historical review of the issue of master's level training in counseling psychology. Discusses the author's views on current social and political pressures that have resulted in renewed tensions in the training of master's level practitioners. Concludes with specific recommendations regarding the manner in which counseling psychology…

Analyzes interviews of graduate student instructors to describe beginning instructors' interpretations of and reactions to student behavior that instructors regarded as direct challenges to classroom authority. Suggests guidelines for course directors and faculty mentors to help beginning instructors learn from the difficult situations. (Contains…

Cornell University's College of Engineering TA Development Program trains experienced engineering graduate students, called TA Fellows, to deliver instruction in teaching to new teaching assistants (TAs). Two TA Fellows act as co-facilitators at all times, in all workshops. The instruction is grounded in engineering case study and delivered using…

Explores whether marital relationships of doctoral students are affected while they are in graduate school. Results show no significant differences among the marital satisfaction of graduate students at different stages in their program. Differences were found with couples involved in marital therapy. Spouses of graduate students reported less…