A survey of graduate students involved in distance education on North Dakota State University's Interactive Video Network included 80 on campus and 13 off. The instructional models rated most effective were role playing, simulation, jurisprudential (Socratic method), memorization, synectics, and inquiry. Direct instruction was rated least…

This article represents the responses of a group of master's students in educational psychology at Memorial University of Newfoundland to a questionnaire designed by the authors and students on the training experience. We hope this provides support to students in training elsewhere and encourages others to consider a career in the helping…

Cautions that the economic woes faced by many colleges involve the risk of losing many graduate programs. Describes a scenario in which primarily research-oriented staff are forced to teach, thus forcing the collapse of graduate programs at all but a few institutions. Discusses a typical workload at many universities and its implications. (PA)

Analyzes a series of response rounds that a graduate sociology student and her professor engaged in as the student produced multiple drafts of a conference paper and a preliminary examination. Finds that the professor's response involved extensive rewriting of the student's text. Uses interviews to trace intermixture of the student's and the…

A study of the ability of different models--including the classification techniques of discriminant analysis, logistic regression, and neural networks--to predict the academic success of master's degree students in business administration suggests that prediction is difficult, but that classification and nonparametric techniques may be…

The relationship between compensatory and noncompensatory information integration and the intensity of the halo effect in performance rating was studied. Seventy University of British Columbia (Canada) students rated 27 teacher profiles. That the way performance information is mentally integrated affects the intensity of halo error was supported.…

This study investigated affective characteristics of 31 doctoral students, using Clark's notion of concomitant problems and Dabrowski's construct of overexcitabilities. Results indicate that subjects perceived themselves as different from typical persons on factors reflecting internal motivation, positive aspects of overexcitability, and need for…

In a study of beliefs and construction of knowledge, undergraduate and graduate education students responded to open- ended statements and a list of similes describing what teachers, students, and classrooms were like. Results suggests that the simile list responses were valid reflections of the subjects' personal metaphors. (32 references)…

Rates at which men and women published during and after Ph.D. training in psychology were compared for samples experiencing same-sex and cross-sex supervision. Results provide no evidence that publication is more frequent for either. However, other possible advantages or disadvantages of same-sex supervision should be studied. (Author/MSE)

Describes a study of graduate students that observed the interaction between users of a graphical statistical package and a human playing the role of a simulated intelligent advisory system to guide the design of advice-offering user-assistance software. The use of video to examine the users' role in the interaction is discussed. (Contains 37…

Surveyed 120 counselor education programs to examine inclusion of women's and gender issues in counseling curricula. Although majority of programs surveyed recognized importance of including women's or gender issues in their curriculum, fewer than one-half of them reported including these issues, either in separate course or as part of other…

Discusses a teaching experiment with (n=19) senior and graduate mathematics students. Analysis suggests that students' difficulties with the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus stem from impoverished concepts of rate of change and from poorly developed and coordinated images of functional covariation and multiplicatively constructed quantities.…

This database lists scholarships specifically available to African American students and some available to minority students in general. Scholarships for undergraduates in general and specific fields and awards for graduate and professional students are listed. (SLD)

Discussion of the solicitation and measurement of relevance judgments focuses on a study of faculty and doctoral students at the University of Michigan that examined how users' judgments of document representations changed as more information about the documents was revealed to them. The use of magnitude estimation techniques is also discussed.…

The value of being able to self-critique manuscripts and to have confidence in the critique is discussed. A checklist that focuses on the structure and organization of research articles, and its interrelationship with content for critiquing articles at an early draft stage that both the author and in-house reviewers can use is provided. (KR)