This pamphlet takes a tested Master of Arts in Teaching (MAT) program from the recent past and relates it to today's circumstances and contexts. The MAT program recruits outstanding liberal arts graduates who have completed little or no undergraduate course work in education and places them in a graduate program that requires the successful…

Guidelines for research proposal preparation are presented to assist graduate students. The following components of educational research proposals are described: title page, introduction, methodology, schedule and budget, and bibliography or references. The introductory section enables the researcher to: define the study's purpose, review relevant…

The author concludes that the Ph.D. degree in chemistry needs broadening and suggests three possible plans that might be followed in achieving this goal. (DT)

A survey of needs for teaching graduate level communication skills as expressed by practicing personnel officers. (CH)

A plea is made to develop curriculum guidelines and an accreditation body to evaluate and accredit professional preparation programs in the field. The key to excellence is described in terms of quality programs as related to appropriate curriculum offerings, adequate learning resources, and defined standards of acceptable performance. (Author)

Alice in Wonderland must be appealed to in order to understand the plight of the young Ph.D. in English. (JH)

Paper presented at the International Seminar on Experimental Research in Music Education (University of Reading, Reading, England, July 9-16, 1968).

Among the advantages of a well-written review of the reading research literature are that it lays down the framework of the topic for the reader and provides exercise for both the synthesizer and the reader in integrating widely scattered, incompatible research findings. These benefits are intimately related to the problems in such syntheses, such…

This source book provides the name, location, and breakdown of course offerings and credit hours needed to complete each of the 154 university masters programs in educational technology that responded to a survey conducted in 1980 by the International Division of the Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT). Information is…

This document discusses the importance of computing knowledge and experience in the techniques of fast data retrieval for today's engineer. It describes a course designed to teach the engineer the COBOL Language structure. One of the projects of the course, a report generator (REGE) written in COBOL which is used to alter, sort and print selected…

STUDENTS IN THE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT DAVIS WHO DO NOT HAVE THE 2.5 GRADE POINT AVERAGE REQUIRED FOR ADMISSION TO THE GRADUATE SCHOOL ENTER AS LIMITED STATUS STUDENTS, PROVIDED THERE IS ADDITIONAL EVIDENCE OF TEACHER POTENTIAL, AS DETERMINED BY A JURY WHICH SUBJECTIVELY EVALUATES THE CANDIDATE'S…