Blacks, Hispanics/Latinos, and Native Americans have long been underrepresented in schools and the workplace in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. Although the monitoring of representation has become a larger and more important enterprise, existing databases make it difficult to discern trends in participation at different stages…

Teachers enrolled in graduate level coursework at Wright State University, in Dayton, Ohio were surveyed as to their perception of the extent of faculty involvement and professional contribution in their school. Teachers and educators that were administrators were the focus of the study. Professional contribution levels were defined for the…

Although online course completion rates are commonly believed to be lower than in other delivery modes, some programs achieve equal or better course completion rates. This issue presents studies that suggest certain practices contribute to student success. Readers are invited to contribute to work-in-progress on key factors for a framework of…

This paper presents a brief overview of Qatar University's history since it was started in 1973. Its primary focus is on the various small, but important, steps taken by the University to address the needs of quality assurance and enhancement. The Qatar University Reform Plan is described in detail. Its aims are to continually improve the quality…

Technological and economic changes affect societies, and consequently bring about change in education. Elementary school principals in Turkey spend considerable time and effort managing change in their schools. This study contributes to the better management of Turkish elementary schools by determining the behavior of elementary school principals…

Most will agree that the use of Internet to support teaching and learning has become a mainstay of management education with the widespread use of online content, discussion boards, document sharing, email, virtual classrooms, etc. But, whether it is effective or not is debatable. Sometimes learners and instructors report very positive…

Parodies an external degree program, using medicine as an illustration. (DW)

This is a selected bibliography covering one subject under consideration at the annual meeting of the Education Commission of the States. The documents included in this 30-item bibliography on graduate and professional education include books, monographs, bibliographies, and journal articles. (PG)

This is the fourth in a series of annual updatings of the bibliography on continuing education. The bibliography is organized in 10 categories: I. General Overview of Continuing Education; II. Adult Learning and Methods in Continuing Education; III. Social Foundations and Social Significance; IV. Continuing Education in Colleges and Universities;…

The current criterion for prediction of performance of student naval aviators is the dichotomy of success versus failure in undergraduate flight training. This criterion has enabled the naval air training command to make reasonable estimates of the probability of an applicant or student completing flight training. However, a costly attrition…

This report presents detailed listings of graduate enrollments within each field of study as reported by each of the 884 U.S. institutions enrolling students for advanced degrees in Fall 1970. The breakdown of the reporting institutions was as follows: 286 had enrollments for first-professional degrees as well as for master's or doctoral degrees;…

Includes the following information: contact person; degrees offered; application requirements and deadline date; admission requirements; etc. (PD)

This study investigated the attitudes toward statistics of graduate students who used a computer program as part of the instructional effort, which allowed for an individualized, self-paced, student-centered activity-based course. The 9 sections involved in the study were offered in 2001 through 2003, and there were 75 participants for whom there…

It was concluded that the results of this review were consistent with those in related studies and that the major university producers of articles also tend to be training students that publish in this journal. (Author)