Describes the construction and validation of a multidimensional program evaluation questionnaire for internal and/or external evaluation of graduate programs in health education. The flexible instrument can evaluate graduate programs at the masters, specialist, and doctoral level. (SM)

Examined extent to which 1988 Council for Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational Programs (CACREP) standards were judged by counselor educators (n=102) as relevant to counselor preparation. Respondents judged CACREP standards to be crucial or important to accreditation. Judgments of relevance differed significantly by numerical size…

This article describes the College of Preceptors, a British-based professional association and learned society for teachers which offers professional qualifications for teachers. Focused on is the new Advanced Diploma in Education offered by the college, especially its requirements of experience, a written examination, and a major project. (DB)

Content analysis was done of actual performance appraisal policies, procedures, and forms of 86 schools with graduate programs in nursing. Performance appraisal systems were found to be in early stages of development. There was agreement of teaching, service, and research as domains; there was less consensus as to the attributes of domains. (JOW)

The required educational administration internship at Eastern Illinois University is a rigorous program designed to promote professional development through structures integrating play or a playful attitude into its work-related elements. These structures allow interns opportunities to initiate and think clearly, experience solidarity in work…

Provides advice for graduate researchers on how to get a research project started, research committee relations, design of the research project, keeping motivated, managing time, maintaining momentum, and safeguarding mental health during the research process. It is noted that the advice would be particularly useful for the completion of doctoral…

Describes an approach to teaching foundations of practices by viewing them as master texts that script the actions of practitioners. Four major adult education discourses are mapped: technological, humanist, liberal, and radical. (SK)

Presents an instructional model based on Neurolinguistic Programming that links counseling student course work in measurement and test interpretation with counseling techniques and theory. A process incorporating Neurolinguistic Programming patterns is outlined for teaching graduate students the counseling skills helpful in test interpretation.…

Focuses on two implicit assumptions that Carl Rogers saw as dangerous undercurrents in the educational process: that ability to pass examinations is the best criterion for student selection and for judging professional promise, and that evaluation is education and education is evaluation. Opinions are offered by three professionals, each with…

Reports results of a year-long reflective coaching project involving a school district and a university. The project involved workshops on instructional techniques and peer coaching skills and 10 coaching cycles pairing a doctoral student coach and a teacher preparing to become a peer coach the following year. The program positively influenced…

Explored leadership education in college student personnel (CSP) preparation programs using naturalistic inquiry techniques with 22 faculty members from 11 CSP programs. Found that generally CSP faculty perceived leadership education to be an objective, if not always a primary one, of graduate programs. (ABL)

Discusses serious concerns about current preparation of school principals and identifies key skills documented in a study based on the NAASP University Consortium's "Red Book." A survey of 400 Texas principals recommended improvement of graduate instruction in job-related skills, extension of opportunities for field experience, provision…

With replacement of over half of the United States' college faculty necessary in the next decade, the task of preparing the next generation of faculty requires higher priority in graduate education. Graduate schools have the responsibility and capability to exert greater influence in adequately preparing the new generation of professors. (Author)

Discusses theoretical and philosophical foundations that can be used to structure Introduction to Student Affairs course within graduate program. Describes the model course as being divided into two segments: liberation theology and liberal arts. Sees liberal arts segment as being further subdivided into philosophy, history, psychology,…

Narrates the experience of one graduate student in English at two universities as she prepared for a career teaching composition and literature. Describes the student's experiences as a religious conversion to a proscribed world view. Argues that graduate education should foster critical evaluation rather than dogma. (HB)