Discusses the need for instructional design students to be involved in real-world situations, and describes a program at San Diego State University that allows advanced graduate students to practice their consulting and instructional design skills with real clients. Considers the client-consultant relationship and describes a model of…

Discussion of international collaboration focuses on two case studies, one of a graduate course and one a professional continuing education course, which examined participants' perceptions and use of technology. Data suggest that technology compatibility with cultural and work style preferences and technology infrastructure are more important than…

Discusses the development and cross validation of a brief measure of the Research Training Environment Scale-Revised (RTES-R) in counseling graduate programs. Results indicate that the new RTES-R-S total scores correlate strongly with the original form and show good internal consistency. Recommends this new instrument when efficient measurement is…

Graduate business administration students (n=55) were asked which model they used for action research projects: conceptual or a physical model visually depicting action research. The physical model was favored by 69%; most agreed that it helped them understand the process of action research, was easy to use, and flexibly applied to various…

Critical areas in which career counselors need training are as follows: demographics, world of work, career and multicultural counseling competence, career counseling process, multicultural counseling theories, career development models, career assessment, barriers to career development, culturally sensitive career centers, and continuing…

Recommends positioning counselor education more centrally within the general framework of an inclusive liberal education. Takes into account contemporary debates surrounding both higher education and the delivery of human services. The advantages for counselors and society are discussed. (EMK)

Argues that a piece of fictional writing could be counted as a doctoral thesis, focusing on qualities that are critical for a fictional doctoral thesis (particularly the self-conscious method) and on writing techniques that could enable those qualities (e.g., direct explanation, authorial intervention, and character intervention). (SM)

Two graduate student groups (n=7 and n=6) used both computerized groups support systems and traditional methods to complete collaborative tasks. The progress and stages of development of one group was erratic, whereas the other evolved into a high-performance group. Technology reduced some group conflict but had little impact on group development.…

An instructor's reflections on face-to-face and computer-mediated courses clarifies assumptions about teaching and principles of adult education. She concludes that the approach to teaching is fundamentally the same in both methods, but instructional roles and strategies differ. (SK)

Criticisms of graduate management education have led to changes in the balance between business and academic standards, strategic leadership, curriculum, faculty performance incentives, graduate proficiencies, and relations with the business community. Operations management/management sciences have similarly changed in terms of curricular…

The author describes a classroom game demonstrating the process of adjustment to long-run equilibrium in a market consisting of price-taking firms. This game unites and extends key insights from several simpler games in a framework more consistent with the standard textbook model of a competitive industry. Because firms have increasing marginal…

This article discusses the decline in the number of international students coming to the United States since the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001. The article focuses on Humphrey Tusimiirwe, a native of Uganda, who dreamed to pursue a psychology degree at a U.S. university. Although Tusimiirwe, 23, submitted the required paperwork and had…

In the wake of paradigmatic and methodological wars, a post-paradigmatic time of epistemological and theoretical diversity in educational research calls for rethinking graduate education. The authors argue for an engaged pedagogy, which represents a shift in emphasis from instrumental training in research methods to an approach in which students…

A growing number of American Library Association (ALA)-accredited library schools are offering distance education graduate programs, sparking a debate about the quality and acceptance of such degrees. Alumni of distance education Library and Information Science (LIS) programs were surveyed about their distance education experiences. Survey results…

This article discusses teachers' views of their own learning. Two groups of teachers attending graduate programmes in Seattle, Washington in the United States of America (USA) and Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom (UK), participated in a project that encouraged them to discuss examples of effective professional development. The teachers from the…