Graduate community health students were educated about the dangers of rubella and then commissioned to teach other college students on the importance of immunizations. Results are discussed. (DF)

Analyzes national survey data to determine whether social work students who received federal child welfare traineeships subsequently found employment in child welfare. Relates results to reformulation of child welfare as a field of practice and to the continuing debate about how child welfare personnel can be most effectively and efficiently…

This study compared vocational education programs in schools of education with those in schools of engineering or technology by considering (1) tenure track faculty; (2) financially supported graduate students; (3) faculty on 12-month contracts; (4) professional meetings attended; (5) reimbursement for professional development; (6) budget; (7)…

This study reports the responses of 202 graduate students and education administrators to an instrument that compared the values respondents used in decision making. The instrument categorized values as personal, organizational, or transcendental. Its usefulness for future research in the field is discussed. (JL)

The Internal Revenue Service has acknowledged that audits of graduate students receiving stipends were based on inconsistent interpretations of tax law but deny any policy to increase monitoring of graduate students' tax returns. (MSE)

Explored group participants' bias toward reducing conflict in consensus versus majority decision styles. Results suggest that the participants expect climate in consensus process to be more agreeable and friendly than in majority process. Social work students showed greater confidence in consensus than in majority, but business administration…

The substantial increase in foreign graduate students who become teaching assistants has necessitated increased supervision and training, especially in communication skills, teaching methods, learning styles, and discussion group leading. (MSE)

A study of the quality of graduate students enrolled in nontraditional, field-based education compared to that of graduate students in traditional, on-campus professional education degree programs showed no statistically significant difference. (Author/MLW)

A table showing data from the Survey of Earned Doctorates cites the following: sex, citizenship, marital status, percent with bachelor's degree in same field as doctorate, planned postdoctoral study, planned postdoctoral employment, primary postdoctoral work, and region of employment after doctorate. (MLW)

Faculty practice (a clinical practice based in the educational institution and staffed and directed by faculty who participate in that practice) is examined as it applies to nursing educators. Elements discussed include faculty responsibility and group functioning, director role, clinical secretary role, clinical setting, patient characteristics,…

This study sought to determine the relative importance of values and learning preferences for educational satisfaction and to examine differences in value and learning preferences among undergraduate and graduate occupational therapy students and undergraduate physical therapy students. Graduates emphasized social values and abstract learning;…

Discusses the relationships between feminist scholarship, science, feminist epistemology, and developments in the philosophy of science. Argues that gender bias exists at the philosophical foundations of knowledge and inquiry. Challenges the ideology, dominant in graduate schools, that empirical science is the only acceptable stance toward the…

A sample of 194 recent rehabilitation counselor education (RCE) graduates (23.7 percent response rate) from eight cooperating institutions used a five-point bipolar scale to independently rate 20 Job Satisfaction Inventory (JSI) items. Data are presented and discussed relevant to the RCE graduates' indices of their career satisfaction. (Author/ABB)

Practicum students estimated the utility of responses reflecting each of three power bases in facilitating behavior change in clients' presenting problems. Results indicated that students with less supervised experience preferred the legitimate and referent power bases. Neither gender nor type of presenting problem affected the students'…

This study examines predictive validity of the Graduate Record Examination (GRE) of academic success as measured by graduate grade point average (GGPA) of 582 students in selected academic disciplines. Results indicated considerable variability in validity coefficients for both different subgroups and subtests. (BS)