This study was conducted to identify the cognitive style of students enrolled in a graduate program in library and information science and to examine the relationship between the identified style and other personal variables, such as age, undergraduate major, preference for future institutional affiliation, and preference for future functional…

A model of conceptual change, adapted from Posner, is presented. It includes both the replacement of an existing concept (conceptual exchange), and the incorporation of a new concept (conceptual capture). Conceptual exchange occurs only when an existing concept is dissatisfying and a new concept is intelligible, initially plausible, and fruitful.…

THE UNDERGRADUATE SOCIAL WELFARE COURSE AT SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY IS DESCRIBED. THE MAJOR IS TAKEN WITHIN THE COLLEGE OF LIBERAL ARTS AND SCIENCES. A BACHELOR OF ARTS DEGREE IS AWARDED UPON COMPLETION OF THE PROGRAM. THE PROGRAM IS INTERDISCIPLINARY. IT INVOLVES SOCIAL WELFARE COURSES, PSYCHOLOGY, POLITICAL SCIENCE, ECONOMICS, AND SOCIOLOGY…

Presented are data on university researchers engaged in fossil fuel studies funded by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). This information relates to research personnel whose projects were active during 1977 and/or 1978. Frequency and percentage tabulations delineate person-months of graduate student, faculty, and staff research inputs by…

The Full-Year Asian Language Concentration (FALCON) program was designed for students who need an intensive program in Chinese to make them proficient enough for graduate study. Using L1, FALCON teaches students to express adult concepts in L2. Since good writing requires a great degree of proficiency, it is neglected initially for the sake of a…

This paper argues that a teacher training course for graduate teaching assistants of freshman composition is essential in view of the public's concern for the literacy crisis and in view of the job market that offers the best prospects for trained teachers of composition. It contends that the negative climate in English departments on most…

A study was conducted to determine how well speech communication departments prepare graduate teaching assistants to teach basic communication courses. Questionnaire responses were obtained from 124 graduate departments of speech communication or theater on the number of teaching assistants, their responsibilities, the percentage of undergraduates…

Growth and present status of graduate programs, major research interests, and potential for US-Brazilian collaboration indicate the present state of rural sociology in Brazil. In contrast to US rural sociology's identity crisis of the past decade, the field in Brazil has blossomed. Graduate programs are underway at universities of Rio Grande do…

A simulated micro-society simulation/game was applied as an experimental treatment to compare the impact of high and low rate of change social environments upon individual's time perspectives. Subjects were 187 university undergraduate and graduate students who completed the covariate "Social Readjustment Rating Scale" and then were randomly…

This report presents national statistics on federal aid to graduate students in the sciences and engineering for fall, 1973. Data were provided by every institution with a doctoral program in science or engineering. The characteristics of graduate enrollment examined in this report are: enrollment status (full and part time); distribution among…

Eight discriminators were identified and data were obtained from the records of 80 graduate students who attained one of four achievement levels at the conclusion of a beginning course in educational statistics. Although the internal discriminatory power of the set of eight measures was very high, estimates of the true power were discouragingly…

Using the Illinois Course Evaluation Questionnaire, 850 college students' evaluations of their teachers did not vary significantly with the use of 3 different sets of instructions, each explaining a different purpose for the evaluation. In evaluating 40 graduate teaching assistants, assistant professors and full professors, graduate students rated…

Listed alphabetically by program title, the information for each public service internship program includes: address and phone number, program director, administering agency, year commenced, interns/fellows per year, objectives of program, program design, scope of placement, sponsors/mentors, scope of recruitment, recruitment strategies, screening…

This report on the conference on the graduate preparation of scientists for undergraduate teaching in liberal arts institutions presents: (1) the highlights and recommendations of the conference; (2) the conference and background papers which include: "Alternatives to the Ph.D.," by R. D. Anderson; "Teaching Versus Research," by Horace W.…