A study investigated the effectiveness of training programs for teaching assistants (TAs) in language courses at the University of Texas at Austin. The programs provided for these students, offered through various language departments, are designed to introduce the most important teaching methodologies and provide opportunities for TAs to gain…

This report contains information on student assessment programs at each of Oklahoma's 27 state colleges and universities, including community colleges. An introductory section offers background on state policy and requirements concerning student assessment at five levels: college entry; mid-program; program exit; student satisfaction; and graduate…

Student satisfaction with distance education instruction was assessed in the context of slow scan interactive television between two university campuses and between a university campus and a business location. The three studies focused on graduate level courses. The research questions addressed were: (1) Is the level of student satisfaction with…

This data report includes trend tables from three sources of data regarding where Howard County (Maryland) citizens and recent high school graduates attend college. These trend tables are described and documented with minimal analysis and are intended to serve as a central data source for further development of charts, presentations, and analyses…

This report presents strategies for ensuring full participation and achievement in the sciences by women and girls, calling upon all adults to support the interest and persistence of females in science, engineering, and technology. After two introductory special reports, "International Efforts through Beijing +5" and "Toward Equity…

This report examines the employment, further education, and satisfaction outcomes of Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal former students who attended public colleges and institutes in British Columbia (Canada). Data on 878 Aboriginal students and 19,440 non-Aboriginal students were collected in 1997, approximately 9 months after students completed all…

This CD-ROM contains data from the Baccalaureate and Beyond Longitudinal Study Second Follow-up Study (B&B:93/97) in the form of a data analysis system that includes most of the variables of interest to analysts. The B&B:93/97 study tracks the experiences of a cohort of recent college graduates, those who received a baccalaureate degree…

This study is one in a series that examines cohorts of American Rhodes scholars in order to determine how changing dynamics of merit, sponsorship, and democratization affect elite membership, socialization, occupational structures, and perceptions of leadership. This segment of the study examines the ways in which elite baccalaureate credentials…

A study compared graduation and licensure examination pass rates of Mexican American nursing students who spoke English as a second language and students who spoke English as a first language. Mexican American students were surveyed or interviewed concerning the effect on graduation and licensure examination pass rates of English as a second…

A project explored the politics of the marginalization of adult education in three studies examining invisibility of adult undergraduates in higher education (HE) institutions. An analysis of the Chronicle of Higher Education studied the marginalized status of adult learners in HE. A study of course syllabi currently used in graduate degree…

A qualitative longitudinal study, intended to encourage graduate programs to reflect on how their programs are making a difference in their students' adult teaching practice, explored how practicing adult educators' beliefs about teaching were impacted by participating in a graduate program in adult education. Sixteen practicing adult educators…

This chapter is part of a book that recounts the year's work at the Early Childhood Development Center (ECDC) at Texas A & M University-Corpus Christi. Rather than an "elitist" laboratory school for the children of university faculty, the dual-language ECDC is a collaboration between the Corpus Christi Independent School District and…

This study examined whether a sequence of graduate field experiences integrated throughout a teacher training program would result in differentiated responses of competence and self-confidence. Participants were graduate students in a traditional preservice program (group 1) and those in a more accelerated program combining fieldwork with evening…

Each year the National Center for Education Statistics publishes this pocket summary of the annual "Projections of Education Statistics." The complete report contains information on projected enrollment and graduates, teachers, and public elementary and secondary school expenditures. This summary, the 14th "pocket" edition,…

Accountability for the preparation of tomorrow's teachers and administrators has come to academia with a full head of steam. Congress has declared that it is the institutions of higher education that must be accountable for increasing K-12 student achievement. As required by the 1998 Congress, colleges of education must begin annual submission and…