Concern with the prevalent under-representation of ethnic minority groups in Western graduate schools, and with the growing demand of minority students for more relevance in the college curricula, prompted a cooperative WAGS-WICHE (Western Association of Graduate Schools-Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education) effort in the general…

This document reports a conference attended by 137 representatives of institutions awarding the doctorate in education. They were invited to 1) study the findings of a research study ("An Inquiry into Conditions Affecting the Pursuit of the Doctoral Degree in the Field of Education"; see SP 004 600 and SP 004 601); 2) to draw their own conclusions…

A study was conducted (follow-up to SP 004 600) of the 1,186 recipients of the Ed.D. and Ph.D. degrees in education in the United States in 1958. Questionnaire data was collected to investigate 5-year career development and job satisfaction plus ability and achievement (as measured by high school graduating class rank, intelligence test scores,…

Initial data from a survey of drug usage among college students was presented. A large-scale effort was made to produce reliable figures on: (1) drug use patterns; (2) attitudes toward drug use; and (3) incidence of drug use among college students. Questionnaires were answered by 26,000 college students from the Denver-Boulder area, who were…

The shortage of PhDs that characterized the past 30 years is over and probably won't be experienced again. Universities which used to employ 50% of the new PhDs, now employ 35-40%, and by the end of this decade, only 25% or less of the new doctorates will enter college teaching. The enrollment rate which yearly increased 10% in the sixties, will…

A sample of 371 graduate students in 5 departments at the University of California at Berkeley was interviewed regarding their professional, academic, and political orientations. Their attitudes on academic work and institutions and political and academic issues were compared on the basis of their identification with the role of student, as…

In an effort to deal with some of the problems of a "reserve book room" in a university library, a study was conducted by the Department of Librarianship at San Jose State University of the feasibility of providing students with their required course readings in microfiche format. One section of the students in the basic survey course,…

This study examined evaluations of various aspects of research training held by directors of and graduate students in counseling psychology training programs, both APA approved programs and a sample of non-approved ones. While nearly all respondents felt it desirable to require full courses in both counseling research methodology and content, only…

Because most graduate geography students will engage in professional teaching activities, the Teaching Preparation Program of UCLA's department of geography is viewed as an important part of graduate training. The program, co-directed by a graduate student and faculty member, is available to all graduate students on a voluntary basis and consists…

A study was made to examine the relationship between a student's acceptance of the instructional objectives of a course and the amount of his learning as measured by tests on the objectives. Participants were not randomly selected but were enrolled in a graduate level course required for teacher certification. At the beginning of the first class…

The author describes an instructional film program for counselors-in-training that employs a teaching strategy based on the principle of counselor therapist developmental tasks. The tasks are specific enough for the majority of students to grasp the concept or learn the skills, yet are not so finite as to be of dubious relevance to the complex…

A recent study of doctoral programs in ten prestigious universities by Ann Heiss found that graduate students tend to be committed to their academic fields, attracted to the world of ideas, independent-minded, and concerned about the relevance of their disciplines to social problems. The study also found that graduate schools tend to be a…

The program was reorganized with the following objectives: 1) to provide a closer relationship between course theory and classroom practice; 2) to provide interns with more meaningful early contact with children; 3) to provide interns with controlled exposure to classroom teaching; 4) to enable interns to study the school as a social institution…

It is generally difficult to appraise the efficiency with which resources are allocated in the education industry because the outputs of education are often difficult to measure. This study focuses on one output of the university: the Ph.D. degree and examines the factors that influence the production of that output. The case study was made at the…

This study was undertaken to examine the relationship between self-reported and pre-post measures of academic growth. Self-reported and pre-post measures were obtained in three areas, simple cognitive, complex cognitive and attitudinal. The subjects were 162 graduate students enrolled in six different graduate courses. Partial correlations…