Many factors influence prospective graduate students' choice of a graduate school, including the chances of gaining admission. This study examines the perceptions of a representative sample of Graduate Record Examinations (GRE) test takers who were asked to indicate their views of the importance of eight widely considered factors in graduate…

A study was conducted to investigate the impact of role models on students' perceived competence, stress, and satisfaction with graduate school. Specific emphasis was given to the effects of gender on the evaluation process. Twenty-one male and female graduate students in communications were asked to designate the existence of a role model…

The issues of teacher training and what it takes to be a "compleat professor" are addressed. Faculty members find themselves trapped in the value system of the profession, knowing that status is gained through scholarly productivity, wanting to gain satisfaction from teaching but unprepared for its demands and buffeted by the changes in the…

This study investigated the relationships between the online searching behavior of novice searchers and three measures of learning style--the Learning Style Inventory (LSI), the Remote Association Test (RAT), and the Symbolic Reasoning Test (SRT). The three tests were administered to 76 graduate students during the first class meeting of a…

The guide contains suggestions for University of Tennessee, Knoxville foreign teaching assistants to improve their command of spoken English. The first section offers four speech improvement suggestions requiring little or no extra time, including speaking English as much and as often as possible, imitating native speakers, asking for the correct…

Growth and change in the quality of doctoral education from 1979 to 1984 were analyzed, using Holzemer's program evaluation schema and a repeated measures design. Fifteen nursing doctoral programs participated in both a 1979 and 1984 study using Educational Testing Service and Graduate Program Self-Assessment (GPSA) questionnaires. A total of 14…

All programs that are involved in training professionals have some experience with impaired trainees. A study was conducted to examine how different American Psychological Association (APA) approved pre-doctoral internship and graduate programs in psychology handle trainee difficulty and impairment. A 62-item questionnaire was completed by…

Warmline, a peer counseling program at Memphis (Tennessee) State University which aims to provide information and support for older-than-average returning or first time students, is described in this training manual. Objectives of the program discussed include reaching out to returning students and welcoming them to campus, providing encouragement…

Results of a need analysis of foreign-born teaching assistants (FTAs) at Drexel University (Pennsylvania) and also at the University of Pennsylvania are presented. Attention was focused on the duties and performance of native speaker TAs and the linguistic and interactional skills that account for success, and problems that negatively affect FTA…

A staffing model for client assignment to graduate-level counselor trainees in the Counseling Practicum Clinic of the Department of Counseling Psychology at Ball State University is presented. Staffing and assignment procedures for this clinic which serves approximately 300 non-student clients and 50-60 counselor trainees each quarter, are…

A study was conducted to determine the support of southern agricultural education state supervisors, teacher educators, and graduate students for a merger of the Southern Agricultural Education Conference and the Southern Research Conference in Agricultural Education. A three-part instrument was developed that obtained descriptive information…

The purpose of this study was to determine social processes of sex differentiation for undergraduate and graduate students in mathematics and how those processes relate to educational inequity. To gather data relevant to those processes, 168 in-depth interviews were conducted with male and female students majoring in mathematics and with faculty…

The relationship between locus of control and value orientation was studied in adult teacher education majors. The Rotter Internal External Locus of Control Scale and Rokeach Value Survey were administered to 413 undergraduate and graduate students ranging in age from 18 years to over 50. Demographic data were also collected. The results showed…

Results of a study based on earlier research, which showed that the amount of research published by faculty is one indicator of the quality of an individual faculty member and the entire faculty of a department, are reported in this paper. It reports (1) the amount of research published by members of speech communication departments in major…

The utility of a theoretical model of quality of life for graduate students was investigated. Variables that relate to the person-environment fit of graduate students were also examined. The data were collected via a biographical data form and seven psychometric instruments. The 142 subjects from two graduate departments at Peabody College were a…