This report investigates the employment and status of women faculty and women graduate students at Brown University. Four different questionnaires designed to elicit factual and attitudinal information were addressed to departmental chairmen, male faculty members in general, women faculty members, and women graduate students. Statistics were also…

Each year, recipients of the Manpower Administration doctoral dissertation grants for manpower researchers discuss their research findings at a conference in Washington, D.C. In addition to serving as forums for the interchange of ideas, these conferences also provide an opportunity for participants to meet their peers and experienced manpower…

A conflict exists between the rights of students to privacy and the needs of college and/or others to obtain information about them. This conflict is prevalent in social work graduate schools, and centers around the following issues: (1) what information is obtained, (2) where it is obtained, (3) where and how it is kept, (4) whom requests what…

This document reports data on science graduate students currently enrolled, and the number and probable rate of induction of those in draft liable classifications. With the assistance of several societies in the various scientific disciplines, 1,237 doctorate-granting science departments were queried. Reported was information on the draft status…

Many of those who oppose student participation in academic governance argue that the students are not qualified to plan essentially professional services. This is not what most students want; they want to be acknowledged and taken into account. They want to participate in the governance of the university not out of a desire for power, but to…

This report is based on research to evaluate an 8-week summer orientation program for foreign graduate students. Based on this research and on the opinions of advising professors, it is evident that foreign students do experience a period of adjustment that varies from 1 - 2 semesters. The results indicate that foreign students profit…

The purpose of this study is to describe and compare the performances of students in a beginning course in educational statistics. Modified mastery learning strategies such as the use of a pretest, diagnostic tests, parallel midterms, and an extended time allowance to master the content were employed during the course. Data was available on 359…

During the last few years, a number of economists have studied the effects of employing different teaching resources on the performance of economics students. Despite widespread interest in the impact of various inputs on the amount learned by students, little attention has been devoted to the choice of output measure. This paper argues in favor…

The first section of this document presents an historical overview of the Laboratory of Educational Research (LER) Program of the University of Colorado during the years 1966 to 1973. This section describes the conception and objectives of the LER Program, its implementation, the nature of its faculty and students (including the employment pattern…

The pros and cons of formally recognizing the achievement of candidacy status by awarding a Candidate in Philosophy degree are discussed. The purpose of the study is to explore both the institutional economic impact of the new degree and to determine whether the University of California at Berkeley created a net benefit by what appeared to be a…

The focus of this bibliography is the foreign medical graduate in the United States. Citations deal with this subject from several perspectives, including education of foreign medical graduates abroad, the flow of foreign medical graduates to the United States, and their training and utilization in American medicine. The references were compiled…

As part of a program to prepare public librarians to serve the urban disadvantaged, the faculty at Wayne State University experimented with simulation as an instructional technique. They developed and tested a library game, LIB SIM, aimed at introducing students to the relationships between main library and various branches in a large urban public…

A questionnaire was administered to 101 Indiana University undergraduates to assess their exposure and reaction to graduate student associate instructors (AIs). The Likert-type questionnaire also obtained background data on the students. Analysis of item responses reveal that students generally react positively to AIs. The data indicate that…

The Graduate College at Stout State University is considering an option to the present A-F grading system called "Mastery Grading," based on a concept called "teaching for mastery." This involves carefully defining each course in terms of the specific competencies which the student is expected to develop as a result of…

The Graduate College at Stout State University commonly employs two criteria in deciding which applicants should be permitted to enroll for graduate degree programs: cumulative undergraduate grade-point average and experience. It was the purpose of this study to determine the effectiveness of these two criteria in predicting the likelihood of…