Examines the problems that four international graduate students of various linguistic and cultural backgrounds encountered in the process of adapting to the requirements of discipline-specific written discourses during their first year of studies in the United States. Suggests that international students need assistance to adjust more easily to…

Examined the differential stability of state and trait self-regulation in academic performance in two content areas. Participants were college students enrolled in either an educational psychology course or courses related to research methods. Data from a self-regulatory inventory provided evidence of differential stability of state and trait…

Proposes a framework to evaluate Ph.D. supervision requirements from a student's perspective. The evaluation documents perceived shortfalls between expected and provided supervision for personal, indirect research-related, and direct research-related help. Finds that the biggest discrepancy between expected and provided supervision was in direct…

A questionnaire completed by 85 minority students in a master's degree special education program found few minority students aspire to a doctoral degree or understand the culture and mores of academe or the requirements for tenure and promotion. Strategies for recruitment of minority students into doctoral programs and for their retention are…

Describes a course at the University of Missouri that gives doctoral students a chance to explore teaching issues in a setting that emphasizes reflection, critical thinking, and individual risk taking. Discusses how the class approaches learning about college students' intellectual development; curriculum design for programs in journalism and mass…

Surveys of culturally diverse physical education (PE) graduate students from various specialization areas examined the importance of mentoring. Results indicated that adapted PE students felt supported by well-organized mentoring, but students from other PE areas had no similar programmatic mentoring structures available. Those with mentors said…

E-journal, printed journal, and database usage data from polls conducted during 1998-2000 at one research university show increased use of e-journals and decreased use of printed journals by faculty and graduate students as availability of e-journals. The majority of frequent users of all three resources were from departments in the sciences.…

Examines the practice of scholarship in American universities and lists three episodes in a scholar's career in which scholarship is paramount: (l) the dissertation process; (2) the candidacy for tenure; and (3) the yearly recommendations for salary increases. Recommendations include encouraging scholarship in all its forms, and reconsidering the…

Investigates the effects of tutor gender in interaction patterns in postgraduate university seminars and focuses on the discourse patterns of two of these classes. The female tutor used more minimal responses and called on students more often by name and gaze than the male tutor; she occupied less floor-space than the male tutor, and her speaking…

Explores how users interact and learn during computer-based simulations given graphical and textual forms of feedback. Graduate students were randomly assigned computer simulations with graphical feedback, textual feedback, or graphical plus textual feedback. Findings indicate that graphical feedback provides experiential learning, but that these…

This paper presents preliminary results from classroom-initiated research using text-graphing to develop metacognitive awareness among English-as-a-Second-Language engineering students writing the literature review section of their master's theses. Results found that text graphing can raise students' awareness of the rhetorical structure of…

A study investigated master of business administration (MBA) students' attitudes toward experiential learning before and after participation in a strategic management course using that approach. While the course matched student ideals on two dimensions (applied/theoretical orientation and lecturer/participant locus of learning) and student…

A survey of 736 graduate student supervisors in 37 Canadian universities investigated aspects of the relationship between student and supervisor, including types and quantity of assistance given in thesis development and research; assistance in preparation of publications, presentations, and grant applications; and help in developing teaching…

Female mathematics and physics graduate students participating in focus groups identified common themes that played important roles in their decisions to go into scientific careers. These factors included the amount of encouragement they received from others, attributes of their undergraduate school, their experiences of competition and…

Observes that mentoring programs for new faculty have grown in recent years. Argues that such programs, although having laudable goals, may have unintended, undesirable consequences. Discusses several possible problems associated with formal mentoring programs and suggests that emphasis would be better placed on improving the graduate training of…