A project designed to rethink student teaching practicums using collaboration encourages teaming between teachers and student teachers and offers opportunities for creating new curriculum and instructional methods. The paper presents two case studies. Interviews, narratives, and logs indicate that certain dimensions of collaboration must be…

Describes a masters of education program at Kansas' Wichita State University, in which students conduct field studies at area K-12 schools. Focuses on one study examining declining enrollment at a Catholic elementary school. Indicates that results were presented to the school principal, who then implemented the necessary changes. (AJL)

Describes the introduction of the Patchwork Text format into the dissertation on a Master's degree in Social Work. Discusses the rationale for rethinking the conventional dissertation and the "patches" making up the revised dissertation format. Draws upon completed dissertations of two students on the program to illustrate how the characteristics…

Provides a summary of research and graduate study activities at 227 U.S. and Canadian engineering colleges. Included is information on the number of faculty and students; degree requirements; degree granted; research areas; and research expenditures of each institution. Presents indices by fields of graduate study and areas of research. (YP)

Provides a yearly summary of research and graduate study activities at most United States and several Canadian engineering colleges. Provides officers of the institution; number of faculty, graduate students, and undergraduate students; extension centers; doctoral research areas; budgeted research; and degree requirements. (MVL)

Examines the beliefs underlying promotion and development of self-directed learning and self-assessment, and the emphasis placed on these beliefs in an English language teaching master's degree program. The problems of tension and conflict between self-assessment and institutional assessment leading to certification, and the advantages and…

Reports responses to an alumni survey designed to evaluate an undergraduate psychology program. Focuses on gender differences, evaluation of curriculum and faculty, and benefits of graduate study. Concludes that educational programs could increase occupational versatility of baccalaureates and that faculty advising of female students should be…

A Boise State University (Idaho) faculty member teaching in a new master's program in business administration in a Vietnamese university chronicles his two-week stay and his experiences with the students and his work. A postscript tells briefly of the students' stay in Idaho for final coursework and an internship. (MSE)

Nanyang University (Singapore) and a university in the People's Republic of China have made arrangements with MIT's Sloan School of Management to launch a graduate level business administration (MBA) program that uses the Internet. The project centers on combining videoconferencing with asynchronous communications tools. A sidebar provides names…

The relationship between grade point average (GPA) and scores on the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) for 60 male and 7 female Asian graduate students in engineering was studied. The TOEFL is not an effective predictor of total GPA, although it measures English communication skills. (SLD)

Examines the relationship between field work and counseling skill development for 73 trainees from 2 master's level counseling programs with different field-work requirements. Trainees with field-work experience respond differently than do inexperienced trainees, with greater empathy, better formulation of clinical impressions, and the ability to…

Describes Oregon's Rural Early Intervention Training Project, a University of Oregon master's level training program that includes on-site courses and practicum supervision and summer on-campus course work and practicum. Discusses program philosophy, goals, and objectives; student recruitment process; course work; and evaluation measures. Includes…

A survey of 213 master's-level business administration students in 1 private and 3 public universities investigated the role of student financing, department characteristics, university characteristics, and information sources affected applicants' choice of institution to apply to. Despite similarities in the concerns of public and private…

Presents 1997-98 rankings of postsecondary institutions granting the most minority-student graduate and professional degrees. Institutions granting the most master's and doctoral degrees are listed for all disciplines and discipline groups; those granting the most first professional and medical degrees are listed separately. Within listings, data…

Proposes three models of course-specific curricula and a content-curriculum model for undergraduate public-relations education, and proposes core and elective areas for a master's of public-relations curriculum. Agrees that public-relations curricula should have a broad liberal arts and science basis, and recommended more attention to ethics,…