In this paper, a graduate student from Taiwan completing a counselor education program at the University of Iowa, comments on his counselor training in the United States and explains how that training has prepared him to work within his own culture. Adjustments which must be made in transferring knowledge gained in the American counselor education…

The preferences of a group of 35 randomly selected undergraduate and graduate students for different text density on computer screens were examined in this study. The displays, which ranged from 53% to 22% density, were generated using the Apple IIe microcomputer. Students were shown a pair of screens of different densities and asked which screen…

For the past five years it has been an ongoing programmatic concern at the University of Pittsburgh to provide a location in the graduate curriculum for discussion of professional and pedagogical issues that relate directly to the teaching, writing, and research projects of the teaching assistants and teaching fellows. The program was constituted…

A handbook for teaching assistants (TAs) at the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Maryland, College Park, is presented to provide information concerning departmental organization and facilities as well as teaching ideas and problems. TAs with the department are either graders who primarily grade homework and tests and…

A study conducted at the University of New Mexico determined what proteges learned from their mentors and how they learned it. The subjects, 247 men and women in professional associations and graduate programs, completed a questionnaire. Survey findings suggested that proteges learned four categories of skills from their mentors: risk-taking…

Prepared for use by graduate students who are teaching their first courses in freshman composition, this guide offers principles, strategies, and activities that are adaptable to a variety of composition programs. The 44 daily lesson plans are arranged in 16 week-long units and cover such topics as sentence combining, participles, absolutes,…

Various course and program formats have been developed to better meet the needs of graduate students. One of them is the development of weekend-only courses and programs. This article examines one weekend counsellor education format in the United States, the St. Bonaventure University program offered in the Buffalo (New York) area, in detail. This…

The traditional core Masters in Business Administration (MBA) curriculum consists of a broad range of courses that can be considered as a whole, or divided into qualitative and quantitative courses. Regression models were developed with "QualGPA" and "QuantGPA" as response variables, and gender, pre-MBA academic indicators, and…

A second article on the Multiple Alternatives Program (MAP) analyzes the effects of MAP on the attitudes and self-concept of the participants. The statistically significant findings indicate a more favorable attitude toward higher education among MAP participants than the control group but no differences in self-concept between the two groups. (AG)

A recounting of how the author's graduate training failed with everything he considered important. (JH)

Sixty graduate students in clinical psychology made diagnostic assessments of one of two staged interviews identical in content but enacted to convey either a middle- or lower-class impression. The results indicate the existence of a class bias and suggest a status differential between psychologists and psychiatrists. (Author)

The effects of different methods of problem presentation and client problems on the counseling responses of 42 students enrolled in graduate counseling methods courses were investigated. Results indicated that the method of problem presentation and type of problem have significant effects on counseling response and that some predictable…

A multivariate analysis of postanxiety measures showed no differences between the treatment groups but in comparison to the no-treatment control group both treatments were associated with significant anxiety reduction on four measures related to speech disturbance, extraneous body movement, and self-reported anxiety. (Author)

The effectiveness of two different in-service training workshops for counselors was compared. The results demonstrated the usefulness of Carkhuff-based training supplemented by group encounter as a professional-skills enhancer and underscored the transferability of sensitivity training gains to counseling. (Author)