Intended to determine the validity of the total score on the Graduate Record Examinations Aptitude Test (GRE) and of the score on the Miller Analogies Test (MAT) as predictors of a criterion of completion or noncompletion of the Doctoral Program in Educational Administration at State University of New York at Albany. (Author)

A three-year (1979-82) training program funded by the National Institute of Education (NIE) at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville is designed to increase participation by women and minorities in educational research. An objective of the project is the provision of practical experience for doctoral students in project design and data…

DOCTORAL PROGRAMS IN SCIENCE EDUCATION SHOULD HAVE ADMISSIONS REQUIREMENTS BASED ON ACADEMIC ABILITY, AGE, MATHEMATICS BACKGROUND, AND TEACHING EXPERIENCE. CANDIDATES SHOULD TAKE COURSE WORK EQUIVALENT TO A MASTER'S DEGREE IN ONE AREA OF SCIENCE AND A MINIMUM OF 1 YEAR OF STUDY, INCLUDING LABORATORY, IN THE OTHER MAJOR AREAS. ONE YEAR OF COLLEGE…

The final report of a 3-year project emphasizes program activities concerned with the development of an interdisciplinary program to train doctoral candidates to apply instructional technology (including computer application, educational programing and stimulation, and research and development techniques) to special education problems. (It is…

The purpose of this report is to characterize American graduate education in the 1960s and to identify many of the issues that will determine the character, magnitude, and direction of graduate education, especially in the sciences and engineering, during the next decade. In Chapter 1, Dimensions of Graduate Education, some of the salient features…

The rapid expansion of programs of study in higher education at the doctoral level represents an awareness of the need to know more about the organization of colleges and universities and to deal more effectively with the problems they face. The principal concern of this investigation was to document the incidence and scope of offerings in higher…

The purpose of this study is to interpret the recent evolution of graduate education within the context of a larger, interdependent system. Graduate education is now in midpassage, suspended between the euphoria of the past and the uncertainties of the future. The essay's chapters attempt to illuminate the sources of past growth, and by…

The first section of this document presents an historical overview of the Laboratory of Educational Research (LER) Program of the University of Colorado during the years 1966 to 1973. This section describes the conception and objectives of the LER Program, its implementation, the nature of its faculty and students (including the employment pattern…

This document stresses the need for administrative internship as an empirical means for professional administrative growth without the obligations of final decision-making commensurate with permanent employment. It is suggested that an incorporation of administrative internship into doctoral programs may meliorate chance administrative success to…

This report states that since master's, doctoral, and professional programs (M.D., D.D.S., D.V.M., O.D., J.D., and Pharm. D.) are quite different in their nature and admissions patterns, these three general divisions must be discussed separately. After a brief summary of admission patterns for each type of program, there are three statistical…

Proceedings of a conference held to determine how Doctor of Arts programs could be put together and how their quality might be maintained are contained in this volume. The 19 papers presented include the Keynote Address, 6 papers related to the topic "Doctor of Arts in the Market Place," 5 papers concerned with "Doctor of Arts:…

The Graduate College at Stout State University is considering an option to the present A-F grading system called "Mastery Grading," based on a concept called "teaching for mastery." This involves carefully defining each course in terms of the specific competencies which the student is expected to develop as a result of…

This report abstracts 13 studies directly or indirectly concerned with the counseling of graduate students. They identify some of the problems graduate students face and suggest changes that could be made in graduate programs to alleviate student dissatisfaction. The studies deal with: the need for counseling, the stifling of creativity, foreign…

This study attempts to obtain an evaluation of the graduate training of the University of Georgia Ph.D. graduates along with a measure of how well they have done since graduating from the University. Information was obtained by means of a questionnaire to the Ph.D. graduates who received their degree from the University between 1966-70. This…