A course in consultation is increasingly becoming part of the required graduate curriculum of counseling psychologists/counselors who are training for employment in mental health and educational settings. This practical model for teaching consultation skills includes didactic presentations, demonstrations, and simulation experiences. (Author)

Data from the Social Science Citation Index are used to measure the differential productivity among graduates of established and prestigiuos doctoral programs. Quality of former graduate students' productivity (publications) is assessed. Patterns concerning the quality of productivity, both across departments and within alumni of the same…

Reports on the Dreyfus Foundation Conference held in Boston at Northeastern University. The proceedings are outlined and some statistics are presented on the supply and demand for chemistry graduates. (Author/SA)

A study of 44 graduate students from a private university was designed to determine the contribution of academic factors to the prediction of graduate school grade point average (GPA). Undergraduate GPA makes a significant contribution to predicting graduate GPA. None of the verbal tests were predictive. (Author)

A group of graduate students (N=11) were trained according to a popular "helping" model which purports to increase the ability to be facilitative. It was found that graduates were more facilitative after training, were able to train others, and that this type of facilitation ability may be related to self-facilitation. (Author)

The influence of sex and college major on nonverbal acuity was measured by asking graduate students (N=100) to identify nonverbal information about emotional states from 150 pictures. Results showed females were more accurate than males. Results are discussed regarding counselor training because of no significant difference between counseling and…

Counseling interviews (N=19) were rated on the Counselor Rating Form in terms of perceived counselor expertness, attractiveness, and trustworthiness. Results indicated all three sources of perceptions were similar, although counselors rated their own behavior as significantly less expert than their clients. (Author)

A survey compared patterns in academic programs and student-university relationships of 142 doctoral graduates in education with 97 students with all requirements except the dissertation to help understand what differentiates the two groups. Results indicate differences between groups in sense of responsibility, employment patterns, financial aid.…

A Pueblo woman with a Ph.D. in social welfare research describes her academic journey, weaving a Pueblo cultural perspective into stories of the doctoral program, her dissertation research on life histories of Indian women recovering from substance abuse, her search for an academic position, the merit review ("a hostile act"), and her…

An exploratory study of the career paths of 118 African Americans and Hispanics who had completed social work doctorates or all requirements except the dissertation (ABDs) revealed that career selection and development did not fit traditional career theory models. Three career patterns were identified: careerists, educational aspirants, and…

To determine how best to use the Internet as a constructivist environment for learning, graduate students in the University of Colorado at Denver's School of Education formed a task force that designed, developed, and implemented a learner support system, including connections to databases related to learning technologies, an online help desk and…

Describes peer-teaching lessons designed by school library media studies students at the University of Northern Iowa as part of an assignment to teach about the World Wide Web. The lessons focused on search engines; comparing information about authors on the Web and in-print resources; comparing web sites on the same subject; and fact and opinion…

Describes personal, clinical, and supervisory based issues that tend to emerge during the training process of master's level and doctoral level counseling psychology students. Paper's intent is to augment available counselor development literature and provide information upon which to launch future research and curriculum development design. (FC)

Examined how four groups of education graduate students worked in a distributed online problem-based learning (PBL) environment using an asynchronous threaded discussion tool. Discusses student interaction; developing their own understanding; how students work with idea units; student communication; and the role of the instructor in designing and…

Explores the genre of the post graduate research proposal as an institutional requirement for international graduate students in an Australian university. Following a survey of attitudes and practices of supervisors, reflects on the political and social dimensions of the role of English for academic purposes (EAP) teachers and reconceptualizes EAP…