This paper focuses on challenges to psychologists and psychology graduate students who are blind or visually impaired in the administration and scoring of various psychological tests. Organized by specific tests, the paper highlights those aspects of testing which pose particular difficulty to testers with visual impairments and also describes…

It is difficult to strike a balance between the demands placed on graduate students and those placed on graduate forensics assistants. The combination of duties as Graduate Forensics Assistants (GFAs)--baby sitters, confidants, teachers, travel agents, administrators, clerical workers, psychologists, proofreaders, authority figures, and finally,…

This study examined the extent to which graduate students in science and engineering fields subscribe to the norms of research behavior which have been the basis of the freedom, self-direction, and self-regulation which characterize academic research. In particular the study focused on the relationship between academic departments' climates and…

Communication among teaching assistants can be as complicated as communication among full time faculty members, so that power relationships influence the rhetoric they use when they talk about being students, teachers, and professionals. Analysis of the political dimensions of teaching assistant interaction in the English department at the…

Noting that an "at risk" population in American higher education is often overlooked, this paper investigates the ABD (all but dissertation) phenomenon, analyzing efficiency, educational excellence, and equity issues. The paper discusses barriers to completion of the dissertation, as well as inequities found in the education of female…

The role of planning in the design of digital circuits was studied in two experiments. One compared the planning-related activities of expert designers and beginning students of design, and the other looked at the effect on circuit-design processes of forcing students to construct a global plan. In experiment 1, five undergraduate students…

An informal survey revealed that graduate students presented with Shakespeare's works felt academically unfit and powerless. These student-teacher-text power relationships parallel the power relationships between the dominant patriarchy and the female characters in "Othello"--Desdemona, Emilia, and Bianca. However, "Antony and…

Report-card marking items by which elementary school students' noncognitive classroom behaviors are graded were studied to establish a preliminary classification of behavioral assessment domains. Two studies were conducted. The first study employed a cluster-analytic approach to a pool of 136 noncognitive behavior-marking items that had been…

In a replicated study involving 54 randomly assigned counselor trainees, three cumulative methods of teaching decision-making counseling were compared (a traditional method, a method incorporating a filmed instructional model, and a method featuring several microcounseling components). The latter method was found to be significantly more effective…

The author defines gestalt awareness and discusses its importance in counseling. Several training procedures to enhance awareness in individuals are described. (SE)

The University of San Francisco Masters in Business Administration program called VITA (Values, Information and Techniques for Actualization) is described as a "line of continuity" running through the 30-unit curriculum, which is made up of several courses dealing with broad value systems and specific attitude and belief systems that…

Rokeach's Dogmatism Scale scores for master's level social work students at the beginning, midpoint, and end of their 2-year program showed significantly more openmindedness at the conclusion of training indicating greater student permeability than previous studies showed. Mean performance level was not significantly different from that of the…

Presents an examination of graduate admissions data with various analysis techniques. Aggregate data showed a clear but misleading bias against female applicants. When data were properly pooled it was found that there was a small but significantly significant bias in favor of women. (GS)

This article describes the virtual-team process used by graduate students with a faculty guide at the University of Calgary over a 16-month period. Using a narrative-story technique, the article describes the four stages of work that were completed by the virtual team and identifies the unique strengths, pitfalls, and strategies that the team…

This paper describes an experiment in which Family Medicine residents composed, read, and discussed their poems as a way of bringing to life their often complex relationships with patients. It argues that this approach mobilizes the physicians' own creativity in the service of reflective practice and improved doctor-patient relationships. This…