This study assesses the effectiveness of admission requirements such as grade point average, GRE test score, personal references, work experience, and personal goals statements in predicting student performance in specific library science classes and throughout a library school Master's program. It is suggested that the factors which predict…

Kohlberg's (1969) slx stages of moral development are grouped into three levels of two stages each: (1) preconventional (morality is externally controlled); (2) conventional (doing the right thing and respecting authority); and (3) postconventional (principles of morality are to be applied universally). Rest (1974) typifies these stages in the…

Shepard-Kruskal's nonmetric multidimensional scaling procedure (KYST) is used to discern those statistical concepts which are most confusing and/or ambiguous to graduate students, as well as to determine if a series of lectures in statistics will influence students' responses to more closely approximate those of their professors'. An instrument…

Two- and three-category versions of Nedelsky's procedure for setting minimum passing scores, based on item content, were compared. Graduate students acting as judges classified the response options on their midterm into two categories: (1) those which should be rejected as incorrect by a minimally performing (B average) student; and (2) those…

This syllabus for a basic course in library automation is designed for advanced library students and practicing librarians. It is intended not to make librarians and students qualified programmers, but to give them enough background information for intelligent discussion of library problems with computer personnel. It may also stimulate the…

To analyze historical trends in job opportunities available to speech communications graduates, a content analysis was conducted of Speech Communication Association bulletins over a ten-year period (1967 to 1977). All bulletin listings were analyzed for state, type of institution, rank, areas of specialization, job requirements, and salary range.…

This paper describes information provided to graduate students who wish to write for professional journals. The information is based on responses to questionnaires, mailed to deans of colleges of education in universities in each of the 50 states, which asked how colleges of education help graduate students wishing to write for professional…

The purpose of this study was to determine whether tests would result in greater retention of research concepts and procedures than written exercises. Students in an introductory educational research course were randomly assigned to one of three treatment conditions--(1) written exercises only, (2) short-answer tests, or (3) individual choice. A…

The design of this study closely follows one by Broverman in order to test the applicability of results to graduate students in counseling and counselor education programs. Subjects were administered the Sex-Role Questionnaire; masculinity, femininity, and adult agreement and health scores were computed and compared by t-tests. Results indicated…

Current graduate education, with its focus on tailoring programs for individual students, has made the relationship between the student and his advisor or committee chairman an essential ingredient of graduate programs. It is this relationship which the survey examines. Specifically, its purpose is to identify and examine graduate students'…

The purpose of this report is to characterize American graduate education in the 1960s and to identify many of the issues that will determine the character, magnitude, and direction of graduate education, especially in the sciences and engineering, during the next decade. In Chapter 1, Dimensions of Graduate Education, some of the salient features…

The developmental task faced during adolescence is, in part, to find a self which is accepted as both authentic and genuinely recognized and valued by others. The graduate student in the American university is generally a young adult facing developmental tasks beyond those of adolescence. He is still vulnerable, however, to conflicts involving…

This publication provides detailed listings of graduate enrollments reported by 865 institutions that enroll students for advanced degrees. This report presents the classification by level of enrollment in two categories: first year and beyond first year. Tables 1 and 2 provide aggregate enrollment data respectively for (1) master's and doctor's…