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Peer reviewedDowd, James J. – Teaching Sociology, 1991
Discusses effects on graduate sociology education of trends emphasizing quantitative methods and the positivist tradition at the expense of social theory and interpretive sociology. Argues that failure to develop sociology's interpretive tradition has allowed the style and intellectual creativity of sociological work to suffer. Urges greater…
Descriptors: Creativity, Curriculum Development, Educational Philosophy, Graduate Study
Peer reviewedSadler, Philip M.; Hammerman, James K. – College and University, 1999
A quantitative study modeled the inherently subjective admissions process for 592 graduate school candidates and 72 raters. Logistic regression models were well-fitting and parsimonious, allowing analysis of each stage of the process. Extended committee discussion/deliberation phases were of limited productivity when inter-rater agreement was…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, Bias, College Admission, Committees
Peer reviewedMorrison, Gary R.; Ross, Steven M. – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 1998
Special problems in assessing how college students use technology and the products they create with it are discussed using the examples of listserv discussions (student participation, quality and coherence of discussion, selection of postings) and a computer-based data analysis in a graduate statistics course. Rubrics for evaluating each are…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Computer Uses in Education, Electronic Mail, Evaluation Criteria
Download full textEvans, Thomas J. – 1998
This paper presents an introduction to basic concepts of educational research for preschool, elementary, and secondary teachers at the Escuela Internacional Sampedrana (EIS) in Honduras who expressed interest in pursuing graduate education in the United States. EIS is a private bilingual (Spanish-English) K-12 school in Honduras. In the first part…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingual Teachers, Educational Research, Elementary School Teachers
State Univ. of New York, Albany. Central Staff Office of Institutional Research. – 1994
This publication provides summary analytical reports and graphic displays from the official Course and Section Analysis (CASA) system concerning the instructional workload and the financial resources of academic departments offering courses during the fall 1994 semester within the State University of New York system. The first of six reports…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Credits, Expenditure per Student, Faculty Workload
State Univ. of New York, Albany. Central Staff Office of Institutional Research. – 1990
This publication provides summary analytical reports and graphic displays from the official Course and Section Analysis (CASA) system concerning the instructional workload and the financial resources of academic departments offering courses during the fall 1990 semester within the State University of New York system. Included are six reports. The…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Credits, Expenditure per Student, Faculty Workload
Peer reviewedFinkelstein, Martin J.; Davis, William J. – Review of Higher Education, 1978
(NOTE: See HE 512 216 for journal name change in information.) The prevalence of the case method in preparing higher education leaders is examined. Responses to a Case Use Inventory indicate many variations are used, but that the case method may not be widely implemented among graduate higher education programs. (SF)
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Case Method (Teaching Technique), Case Studies, Classroom Techniques
