A questionnaire on grading systems was sent to the 287 members of the Council of Graduate Schools. Of the 240 responses, 127 indicated that they used systems other than the A-F traditional system, either in part or in toto. Other systems used include pass/fail, satisfactory/unsatisfactory, pass/no credit, and some variations of the A-F traditional…

In shaping the future of a university, a host of factors enter the planning picture. Some of these are historic and relate to tradition, others relate to institutional leadership and the pattern of governance, and others to the needs of the region and the community which the institution must serve. Some factors can be regressive such as the…

The impetus for modifying or eliminating the A-F grading system has come primarily from students. Faculty reaction has been more one of bowing to pressure than that of a carefully considered response. Arguments for and against the traditional grading systems each have merit. It seems illogical, however, to repeat on the graduate level a grading…

A questionnaire on the pass-fail grading system was sent to the 276 deans whose institutions belong to the Council of Graduate Schools in the United States. Of the 230 deans who responded, 214 preferred to evaluate a student for admission to graduate or professional study on the basis of a letter graded transcript, 7 preferred a pass-fail…

In an effort to meet the growing need for physical education specialists, the University of Florida developed a professional preparation program which began in the winter quarter of 1973. Thirty-seven hours of upper-division professional courses are taken by all physical education majors. There are also 35 hours of core courses for prospective…

Graduate school is a game for which students need to know the rules and in which students must be willing to play. It marks the end of undergraduate study and the beginning of entrance into a society of the elite. Some of the problems students usually encounter in graduate school are limited social life, adjustment to work loads, disparity between…

The Statistical Concepts Package (STAT-CONCEPT) is a coordinated collection of interactive computer programs and printed materials designed to enrich graduate instruction in educational statistics. Probability, descriptive statistics, sampling distributions, and power are four of the thirteen topics included. By doing the computational labor and…

This document presents articles concerned with curriculum, graduate and professional education, and finance. Articles discuss the changing college curriculum; the academy and general education; Pennsylvania's "state-owned" institutions, some dimensions of degree output; the quality of graduate studies in Pennsylvania and other selected…

This monograph reviews educational programs designed to prepare physicians to practice primary care, with particular attention to historical influences that underlie the development of these programs and recommends specific action to improve the quality of that preparation. Emphasis is placed on the problems of primary care, history of education…

The purpose of this monograph is to present the thoughts of a small group of medical educators and administrators on the expansion of medical education's scope and responsibilities, basic conditions for progress, and medical education's obligations to the nation's health. In Chapter 1, the health delivery system of the future is discussed. Chapter…

This is the annual report on the grant covering the training of one remaining graduate student during the final calendar year (1972-73) of the 3-year educational research training program at the University of Florida. Only he received support under the grant during the year. The program was designed to help students acquire: (1) a deep…

Project Merge is a cooperative, field-based in-service and preservice teacher education program; it is a systematic field based, cooperative approach to teacher education, instruction, and curriculum development. The project has been field validated and is competency based. It has three interrelated phases: a) an in-service program which affects…

Tools for Change, a new course in problem-solving, consists of a series of units, each dealing with a subject area based on a set of heuristic processes or strategies. It assumes that: 1) there is an identifiable and useful set of heuristic processes in problem-solving; ) a language of process will improve communication between problem-solvers; 3)…

This survey was conducted to obtain specific information about procedures and programs developed for minority and/or disadvantaged students by graduate schools. The purpose of the survey is fourfold: (1) to provide a current detailed description of the status of special programs or activities for minority and/or disadvantaged students by total…

The implications of the report are that a knowledge of quantitative areas is becoming increasingly more important in the logistics career fields. Therefore the study has emphasized predicting academic performance in quantitative courses in graduate logistics. It was expected that a useful model of this type, in conjunction with the other models,…