Section I of this report on the status of women at Harvard discusses the inclusion of women in the faculty, administration, and Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. Women are underrepresented at the highest and most visible levels of the faculty. Though women constitute roughly 20 percent of the students taught in the Faculty of Arts and…

This study investigated whether older female graduate students who have experienced an interruption in their formal academic education will display greater achievement motivation when competing against a male than will younger graduate females or undergraduate females. The measure of achievement motivation was the percentage of incompleted tasks…

The publication represents one of a series of five inventory data documents resulting from two years of research on higher education in South Dakota. Research in the areas of students, curriculum, faculties, facilities and costs was conducted to provide information for cooperative higher education planning. Components of the document comprise a…

To investigate variables not previously studied in annual surveys of phonetic skills of teachers, the California Phonics Survey (CPS) was administered to 78 graduate students who were also elementary teachers, 252 undergraduate education majors, and 41 speech majors and speech therapy majors. Differences among groups were studied, and additional…

Critical incidents were used to collect faculty ratings of graduate student performance in the departments of chemistry, English, and psychology. Separate factor analyses in each of three fields produced eight factors that were fairly consistent with respect to item loadings across fields. Factors were labeled independence and initiative,…

At the beginning of the academic year 1972-73 the graduate physics student population was 11,804. The 173 doctorate granting institutions and the 137 master's granting institutions reported enrollments of 10,227 and 1,577 graduate physics students, respectively. The data for this Graduate Student Survey comes from individual graduate students…

Many self-concept measures employ several different scales to which the subject responds in a set order at one sitting. This study examined the effects of different testing conditions on such scales. Bill's Index of Adjustment and Values was administered to 191 graduate students under two different sequences, and two time delay conditions. The…

This study investigated attribute by treatment interactions between prior familiarity and response mode to programmed materials for college level subjects by manipulating subjects' familiarity. The programs were a revised version of Diagnosis of Myocardial Infraction in standard format and in a reading version. Materials to familiarize subjects…

This project, during a little more than two years of operation, used an interdisciplinary group of graduate students to adapt and rewrite the findings of selected studies sponsored by the Office of Research and Development in order to broaden the audience for those findings. The objective was to promote application of the findings by making them…

It was the purpose of this investigation to ascertain and evaluate the response of graduate students in Counselor Education and Rehabilitation Counseling to their experiences in an introductory course in Human Relations. This course was an integral part of their counselor preparation program. We wished to consider the implications of these student…

The study was an experimental investigation of the effects of item difficulty and subject ability on subjects answer-changing behaviors. Subjects were administered an achievement test composed of items at three levels of difficulty via slides, followed by a printed copy of the test. Analyses revealed no effects attributable to subject ability.…

In order to examine empirically the priorities that different groups place on a common set of evaluative characteristics as they apply to a specific problem, a survey of five principal groups composed of professional evaluators, E.S.E.A. Title III staff, graduate students, local school staff, and administrators was conducted. An eighty-five item…

The purpose of this project was to design, execute, and evaluate a film to be used as a public education program in rehabilitation counseling. The film "Will It Be You?" was produced to interest undergraduate students in a career in rehabilitation counseling and to inform the general public of the goals and services of rehabilitation counseling.…

This 45-item questionnaire is designed to measure drug use among undergraduate and graduate students. The self-administering form also provides background information on the respondent. Part of TM 001 082. (DLG)

Common elements exist in undergraduate and graduate education of reading teachers in knowledge, skills, attitudes and experience; however, the two groups, differing in teaching experiences and preparing for different roles, require different programs. The first group seeking the skills for effective teaching of reading in a classroom requires…