Examined the effectiveness of a skill-training method for intake interviewing skills (didactic instruction, modeling, and feedback) compared to didactic instruction alone and a delayed-training control group. No training effects were found in identifying client information, in using facilitative interview behaviors, or in client ratings of…

Describes a graduate student needs assessment study including test construction, pilot study and test administration. Presents student needs in rank order and discusses differences by sex, race and marital status. Presents implications for student development professionals. (Author/RC)

Describes a refinement and extension of the Hill Counselor Verbal Response Category System (HCVRCS). The revision (HCVRCS-R) retains the original's content analytic approach. However, the HCVRCS-R deviates from the original in its conceptual framework, classification strategy, and in its rules for defining meaningful response units. (Author)

Describes a graduate course in English that brought together parts of graduate education that are too often left isolated from one another by forming a "teaching company" of graduate teaching assistants who simultaneously grappled with the same set of pedagogical and literary issues on a weekly basis. (AEA)

A discussion is given concerning possible interactions of balance with spatial ability and M-space, i.e., the span of short-term memory. Thirty graduate statistics students were the subjects in an investigation that revealed a sizable Balance by spatial by M-space triple interaction. (Author/AH)

Examined potential sources of support for women educational leaders in the work setting. Found that the relationship between one's sex role orientation and attitudes toward women generally and in a managerial role is tempered by how comfortable one feels performing cross sex-typed activities and whether one perceives androgyny positively.…

Exploratory studies of the role of hemisphericity in creative functioning were made of graduate students. Results from instruments assessing hemisphericity, creative style or personality, and creative ability or level indicate that measures of creative style are positively related to the right hemisphere style of information processing. (CJ)

The degree of involvement of 46 graduate students in sponsored research projects was investigated. The projects were administered by three social science and three natural science departments at the College Park campus of the University of Maryland. (MLF)

Identified criterion variables known to be related to educational-vocational indecision. Determined if unique relationships existed between factor structure on the Career Decision Scale (CDS) adapted for graduate students and the criterion variables. Results suggested that factor scores of the CDS measure essentially equivalent components of…

This study considers both meaning and mediation factors in the achievement-aspiration relationship. Results show that women's aspirations for traditional career rewards are largely a function of their perceptions of the structural availability of job opportunity. (CT)

Graduate students in an instructional design (ID) course were paired with middle-school student teachers to provide the ID students with an opportunity to sharpen their consulting skills while gaining personal confidence in dealing with "real" contexts in a nonthreatening situation. Eighteen references are listed. (Author/LLS)

Describes a study which investigated student attitudes toward firing good teachers for lack of publications, differences in classroom performance between researchers and nonresearchers, awareness of professors' research interests, and whether research plays an important part in students' education. (KC)

The quality of supervision received by postgraduate students has been seen as a considerable problem. It is proposed that the concept of classification and framing used by Bernstein can be adapted to the matching process needed between supervisor and student. (Author/MLW)

Research to explore the constructs that academic tutors employ when making judgments about postgraduate students is reported. Repertory grid techniques were used to elicit the constructs used by two tutors who deal with large numbers of postgraduate research students. A range of constructs are presented. (Author/MLW)

A study of semantic divergent-processing ability using graduate student and adult samples yielded positive correlations with magazine readership, special training, and group memberships in childhood. It also correlated for adulthood variables of magazine readership and group membership (for students) and radio listenership, magazine readership,…