Discusses attrition as a fundamental weakness of doctoral education, examining why half of America's graduate students leave without completing their degrees. Research suggests that problems relate to the application process, types of student supports, program quality, and faculty role. Attrition is deeply embedded in the organizational culture of…

Describes problems in score reporting with the True Score model, defines the Rasch measurement unit (the logit), reviews transformations of the logit metric, and provides examples of score reporting procedures. Uses dichotomous data from an examination taken by 126 Ph.D. students and polychotomous data from a self-efficacy assessment completed by…

Describes how universities try, and sometimes fail, to prevent the revenue based on lucrative licenses from being lost when professors or graduate students commercialize inventions themselves. (EV)

Explored why 30 percent of students admitted to graduate programs in Texas A & M University's College of Education did not register. Found that non-registrants selected universities to which they did not have to relocate or commute too far, and which responded promptly with acceptance decisions and financial aid offers. (EV)

Examines effectiveness of an alternative cohort model designed for part-time students in a doctoral educational leadership program. Results from a survey, student evaluations, and focus groups indicated the experience was personally and professionally rewarding and promoted friendships and idea exchanges. However, students did not take risks…

Surveys graduate and undergraduate mechanical engineering students at the University of Auckland. Shows that the dominant work activities of New Zealand mechanical engineers include design and consultancy and that graduate engineers rapidly migrate into management. (Author/CCM)

Decribes the experiences of four doctoral graduates who successfully obtained university faculty positions. Offers insights for prospective counselor education job applicants about facets of the job seeking process. (Author/JDM)

Discusses methods for incorporating live and videotape counseling sessions conducted by faculty into counseling programs to provide opportunities for students to learn through modeling. States that since there are no published studies reflecting the outcomes of utilizing faculty counseling sessions, decisions about providing observations should be…

Explores the components of the assimilation stage of Graduate Teaching Assistant (GTA) socialization, with a specific focus on the relationship between GTA involvement in supportive communication relationships and GTA use of information-seeking strategies. Finds that a correlation exists between GTA involvement in supportive communication…

Reports on a study of counselors-in-training who completed systematic groups skills training based on the Skilled Group Counseling Training Model (SGCTM). Findings indicate that higher level group-counseling skills can be efficiently taught prior to practica and internships. Concludes that if counselors-in-training gain higher level skills prior…

Study explores the effects of bogus performance feedback on counseling self-efficacy and counselor anxiety. After a 10-minute mock counseling session, 45 master's-level trainees received either positive or negative bogus feedback regarding their performance. Results showed that (a) participants altered their counseling self-efficacy depending on…

Discusses how graduate education programs might develop researchers with the capacity to use multiple perspectives and methodologies. Argues that graduate schools of education should prepare students to pursue epistemological diversity that holds promise for effective change. (SM)

Describes an interdisciplinary seminar that drew together doctoral students preparing for careers in educational research from diverse departments across a large school of education, detailing the seminar's work and changes in its design as faculty gained experience. Explores the faculty's intentions, students' responses, and pedagogical lessons…

This comparative analysis examined the developments and state of the art with respect to the academic career in a number of European countries (The Netherlands, Germany, United Kingdom, and Sweden). It focused on the position of Ph.D. students and "advanced" academics and uncovered common developments, policies, problems, and possible…

Developed a brief multidimensional measure of aversion to women who work using data collected from 175 predominantly lower income Anglo American undergraduate and graduate students. Findings indicated that the 10-item measure exhibited acceptable reliability, as well as adequate convergent and criterion validities, thus making it a potential…