Compared anxiety levels of graduate-level education majors using either hand-held calculators or statistical software in an educational research course. Found no statistically significant differences in anxiety by treatment group, but did find a significant treatment group effect by gender. Females using the software showed significantly higher…

Describes a doctoral assignment that uses a genogram format to tract academic lineage and uncover historical themes that continue to influence the student's professional development. Explains how this method can be modified for use with master's level students. Discusses how time consuming the genogram can be and suggests ways faculty can shorten…

Explored the effect of a teaching orientation for international teaching assistants (ITAs) on their teaching self-confidence. Surveys of ITAs before and after attending a 4-day orientation to teaching designed to improve interactive teaching skills suggested a positive effect of the orientation on their perceived level of self-confidence about…

Analysis of data from 55 U.S. Ph.D.-granting economics departments showed almost no support for the hypothesis that female graduates' initial job placements are improved by the presence of women faculty or dissertation advisors. Female faculty did reduce female students' time spent in graduate school. (SK)

Investigated the relationship of coping resources and cognitive appraisals to emotions produced by the end of a romantic relationship. Results based on 231 participants suggest that preventive coping resources affected the appraised desirability of the event, as well as initial emotional reactions. Combative coping resources also affected…

Describes an experiential group training model designed for prepracticum-level counseling graduate students. Simulated Group Counseling (SCG) offers students an opportunity to experience being group members; facilitating a group; and processing the group with peers, an advanced graduate student observer, and the instructor. SGC reduces…

A social cognitive model was applied to the prediction of interest in research among counseling psychology doctoral students (N=184). Five variables emerged as significant predictors. Several factors indirectly affected interest in research through effects on research self-efficacy and research outcome expectations. Relationships among the…

Formal instruction in general professional skills should be made a standard element of graduate training programs to better prepare students for success in graduate school and beyond. Issues to be addressed in such training include communication of ideas and results, obtaining jobs and funding, attracting students and staff, academic integrity,…

Details the experiences of graduate students as they learn how to collect data from others using the interview method. Focuses on students' struggles with issues of personal intimacy and analytic distance, in addition to coming to terms with the obligation to make a coherent statement about what was learned. (DSK)

A study involving 113 graduate students, all practicing teachers, identifies five major reasons why teachers are not using effective multicultural education practices in their classrooms. These reasons center on the lack of information about multicultural education and effective practices to promote it. (SLD)

Studied the impact of practice tests on students' calibration and examination performance for multiple-choice and essay examinations. Results for 59 graduate students show that practice tests were associated with significantly lower scores on the midterm multiple-choice items and less accurate predictions and postdictions on these items. Discusses…

Presents a geometry game, tangrams, as an active learning method to engage international teaching assistants in concepts related to effective communication. Asserts that by framing the presentation of research-based communication concepts in an active learning metaphor that compares giving instructions to teaching, learners can experience these…

Describes how graduate students in architecture face some of the longest hours in higher education, but that some experts question whether they are learning what they need to know. (EV)

School counselors need to be prepared to address student concerns and school problems in collaborative ways, while working cooperatively with school principals. A seminar is described which is designed to help graduate students in school counseling and school administration develop a greater appreciation of the roles, responsibilities, and…

Study uses art to evaluate an all day seminar for graduate students on research methods, to explore students' feelings about research concepts, and to foster understanding of these concepts. Results suggest that the seminar was able to reduce most participants' anxiety about research without a loss of creativity and energy. (Author/GCP)