A comparison was made of the effects of systematic desensitization, a "sensitization" treatment (designed to increase awareness of anxiety) and no-treatment on the reduction of beginning counselors' anxiety. Forty-one counseling graduate students, assigned to one of the three conditions, served as subjects. With treatments intervening, the…

The author of the present document maintains that today's graduate students in the arts and sciences are an elite group of individuals who have somehow survived the student attrition process. Data are presented that back up this statement, beginning with statistical data concerning high school students continuing through the senior year in…

This annotated bibliography is a compilation of books, articles, reviews, and other published and unpublished materials dealing with graduate education. The documents are divided into seven major categories: (1) history and development; (2) students; (3) structure and functions; (4) instruction and research; (5) manpower; (6) costs and financing;…

Described are the history and current trends of graduate level training of scientists in Brazil. Current and probable future problems are considered. (SL)

The study was designed to investigate marriage, work, and motherhood role perceptions of 93 adult women who were mostly graduate students at a large urban university. A secondary purpose was to examine the interaction of age-role status variables and role perceptions. (Author)

This article describes a seminar, practicum course in sociology required of all graduate students about to teach for the first time at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Specifically discussed are selection of students, tapping sociological lore for pedagogical insights, and interplay of theory and practice. (Author/RM)

Describes the Training in Education for Assistants in Chemistry (TEACH) program, which provides written and videotape materials to departments of chemistry for training their teaching assistants. (MLH)

Because social work is founded on values to be shared by practitioners, social work students find grappling with implications of this value system is a large part of their professional education. Students and experienced workers alike must come to terms with feelings and behavior. (Author)

A controversial report of the insults that graduate school generates, this article addresses questions of student identity, powerlessness, esteem, and psychological survival. It is a disturbing analysis of graduate student culture, graduate student/society relationships, and graduate student importance. (Author)

Three fear of success measures correlated positively with the Alpert Haber Debilitating Anxiety Scale. Correlations between the Pappo Fear of Success Questionnaire (FOS) and the Zuckerman and Allison Fear of Success Scale (FOSS) were significant and positive. The Horner Scoring System was not significantly correlated with the FOS or FOSS. (EVH)

The process of involving social work graduate students specializing in planning and administration in the design of management simulations is described. Focus is on the integrative capacity of the simulation to combine knowledge and skills acquired in both classroom and practicum experience, and a detailed description of a student guide to…

Findings of a study of graduate social work students suggest that clinical judgments vary as a joint function of the social class of the client and the social class origin of the worker, and that these relationships are complex ones that need further investigation. (Author/LBH)

Argues that the combined plots of Graduate Record Examination (GRE) scores are useful data for appraising the ability of prospective graduate students to successfully complete requirements of a doctoral degree. (Author/SL)

Research into levels of death anxiety among graduate students showed no differences between male and female students, nor any differences due to religious affiliation or race; however, career choice seemed to be affected to some degree by attitude toward death. (MJB)