The authors provide a reference on how to set standards on tests in education, licensure, and certification. This book is comprehensive in scope, practical in nature, and definitive in terms of cataloguing the essential conceptual and procedural fundamentals of setting performance standards. It: (1) Offers a detailed description of procedures; (2)…

Very few Latinos earn doctorates in anthropology, and the number enrolling in undergraduate programs is also not encouraging. This paper addresses the low and stagnant number of "new" Latino doctorates in anthropology, discusses reasons for this poor showing, and presents a possible solution--an approach to the study of anthropology that…

Recent reports on the college enrollment and degree completion experience of African American students have largely ignored the contributions of historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs), which, in 1997, produced 28% of the bachelor's degrees conferred on black students. This study used data from the second follow-up of the 1993…

Within cohorts, stable student membership and interdependent learning tasks create a community-like environment. While this situation can provide a protective environment for learning, it can create stressful situations as students learn to live and learn together. Using a conceptual framework built from adult learning literature and group…

Indiana University Purdue University at Indianapolis (IUPUI) was established as an autonomous state university in 1969, with the merger of the Indiana University and Purdue University branch campuses in Indianapolis. There are 19 schools providing graduate education on the campus, including Liberal Arts, in which communication studies is situated.…

A study was conducted to determine the effectiveness of using advance organizers in instruction at the graduate level. Participants were 218 graduate students in research methodology courses. Fifty-four students were enrolled in sections in which advance and post organizers were used; 164 were enrolled in sections in which this type of instruction…

Peer orientation has been found to explain as much as 27.4% of the variance in achievement in graduate-level research methodology courses, with students who prefer to learn in cooperative groups tending to attain lower levels of performance in individual learning settings than do their counterparts. The purpose of the present study was to…

This document contains revised policy and guidelines for the external evaluation of new graduate-level programs in the Oregon University System. Each institution in the Oregon University System that requests a new graduate-level or graduate degree program or a significant new option within an existing graduate program must complete an external…

This preliminary study of students' experiences in doctoral programs includes perspectives from newly admitted students, those who have completed their dissertations, students in intermediate stages of the process, and students who have decided to leave doctoral programs. The time span covers almost 25 years and data were gathered for some 250…

This document reports on the interstate migration patterns of recent science and engineering doctorate recipients. The study examines individuals who earned a doctorate degree in science or engineering from a U.S. university from birth through postgraduate employment. Data was collected using the Survey of Earned Doctorates (SED) for the academic…

The Arkansas Higher Education Coordinating Board directed the Arkansas Department of Higher Education (ADHE) to conduct a study of the graduate education needs of the state and the wise use of limited state resources to meet these graduate education needs. ADHE staff collected information from a variety of sources. As of February 2000, the ADHE…

This study documents the employment patterns and demographic characteristics of recent PhDs in earth and space science. It summarizes the latest annual survey of recent earth and space science PhDs conducted by the American Geological Institute, the American Geophysical Union, and the Statistical Research Center of the American Institute of…

This paper reports on a secondary analysis of two large surveys of United States news journalists and newspaper journalists which compares characteristics of graduate-school-trained journalists to those with only a college education. The paper states that the analysis also considers differences between studies in and outside the communication…

This paper shares some of the experiences of the author, a former Ph.D. overseas student from Thailand, during the time she was conducting a research project in Australia. Being abroad for the first time, as well as coming from a culture with different norms, values, languages, beliefs, and ways of life, led to most of her days studying overseas…

Nineteen well known figures, with a common interest in disadvantaged learners, are interviewed. Many are respected members of educational institutions with expertise in teacher unions, undergraduate education, school reform, achievement gaps, research universities, preschool education at home, and teacher training. The authors of…