The Program Evaluation Survey (PES) was developed to measure student perceptions of and satisfaction with the instructional, curricular, advising, and operational phases of an academic department. The monograph is a report of a series of studies conducted to determine the validity and usefulness of the PES designed to provide both formative…

A review of the history of adult education (AE) graduate programs and their recent spurt of growth reveals four areas of concern (trends). First, the content of courses seems to be returning to basic, practical knowledge after an emphasis on knowledge without application. Secondly, diversity in the names of units governing AE graduate programs is…

The 108 tables printed in this volume provide data on the support of graduate students and postdoctoral fellows in all areas of science and engineering for the year 1973. The data were collected from 339 institutions offering 5,683 doctoral programs in science and 876 masters-only programs. Data are organized to show the sources of support for…

Since 1968, the Central Staff Office of Institutional Research of the State University of New York has conducted an annual survey of the geographic origins or permanent residences of all credit course students attending institutions of the State University of New York. This report covers the fall 1974 term. Tables contain: (1) summary data for the…

A proportionate stratified random sample of undergraduates, graduate students, and professional school students at the University of Chicago was interviewed to determine the extent to which they were aware of the Regenstein Library's reference services. A rather low level of awareness of reference services was found throughout the student body.…

An outline is proposed for a library school course in data processing for libraries that is different from other such courses in that it emphasizes the operations of the computer itself over the study of library computer systems. The course begins with a study of computer hardware then moves to the teaching of assembly language using the MIX…

This document questions the emphasis on research as the single criterion for evaluating all graduate schools and their faculties, and urges that all doctoral students spend time working outside university walls in areas related to their majors. Recommendations suggest: (1) Graduate school faculty be encouraged to take a wider view of their…

The varied reading deficiencies of college students of several backgrounds and ability levels are described to illustrate the need for differentiation in effective reading instruction for college students. It is contended that the fact that many good students are slow and poor readers is continually overlooked in reading instruction. Data from…

On the instruction of the Council of Ontario Universities, the Advisory Committee on Academic Planning in coordination with the Committee of Ontario Deans of Engineering has conducted a planning assessment for doctoral work in metallurgical and materials engineering. A consultants' study of metallurgical and materials engineering is presented,…

Research was conducted on information needs and bibliographic problems of anthropologists at Duke University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Sixty-four faculty members and graduate students were surveyed, and twenty faculty members were interviewed. Many areas of information retrieval problems and the different ways…

A questionnaire was sent to 166 graduate students from the Reading Center files in the Graduate School of Education at Rutgers University during the years 1965-70. Ninety-five percent responded. Publication was reported by 19 percent of the respondents. Another 38 percent wrote unpublished curriculum materials that were reproduced and distributed…

Scores of foreign graduate students on the Graduate Record Examinations (GRE) Aptitude Tests and the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) were combined through multiple and moderated regression to predict grade-point average (GPA). It was hypothesized that TOEFL would moderate the relationship between the GRE scores and GPA. According to…

Graduate and professional schools usually base their admissions decisions on a combination of test scores and on an overall index of undergraduate achievement such as cumulative grade-point average or rank-in-class. The present study sought to investigate whether considering more specific indices of undergraduate performance, through a detailed…

Chapter 1 of this highly detailed book examines the flow of foreigners who receive their doctorate in the US by area of origin and destination, wealth of origin and destination area, and field of specialization. The backgrounds and characteristics of US citizens who go abroad for employment are compared with those of citizens remaining in the US.…

This paper examines student characteristics associated with success in a mastery learning strategy by: (1) continually assessing over terms the entry and exit skills of the students enrolled and (2) constructing and validating a scale for measurement in the affective domain. The mastery learning theory itself was proposed by Bloom (1968) as a…