Educational facilities and financial assistance for graduate students in psychology: 1954-1955.

Abstract

March 1. VA in clinical. Other part-time positions available. Master's and doctoral in general, experimental, clinical, counseling and personal, social, remedial.Reprints of Ms article may be obtained from the office of the American Psychological Association jor ten cents per copy.

Survey of graduate education in psychology: Some trends for the last decade.

“…Looking now at the graduate department of psychology as the unit of interest, certain comparisons were possible over the 1954-63 decade through an analysis of the educational-facilities articles published in the American Psychologist. The content of these articles for academic years 1954-55 and 1963-64 was analyzed as to the numbers and kinds of programs offered in psychology and closely related fields (Moore, 1954;Ross, 1962). APA-approved clinical and counseling programs.…”

Faculty and students in departments with graduate programs in psychology.

“…There was no attempt, however, to survey all teachers colleges or schools of education that might be offering programs in educational psychology or other special phases of psychology. The departments included are almost identical with those listed in an article in the January 1954 American Psychologist (4).…”

Undergraduate grades and the Miller Analogies Test as predictors of graduate success.

“…The value of the MAT, which is used by more than half of the universities offering a PhD in psychology (Moore, 1954) as a predictor of academic achievement, has recently been called into question because of its low correlations with grades and other measures of competence in a graduate psychology program (Hyman, 1957). One would not expect the MAT to demonstrate good discriminative efficiency if it had already been used as a selection device.…”