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The article views on educational programs designed for college teachers. The programs provide for preparation in the candidate's instructional field. Graduates of these programs have the authority to identify the field of specialization in connection with the degree title. The requirements needed for the Doctor of Education degree in college teaching include a minimum of three academic years. It is equivalent to ninety semester points of graduate course work. On the other hand, a candidate for admission to a program for college teaching must have completed a master's degree, must have achieved high scores on the Graduate Record Examination, and must have completed at least one semester of course work in his Teachers College department during his master's degree program.

Reports on the Graduate Record Examination (GRE) at Denison University in Granville, Ohio. Information on the GRE in speech; Disparity between what the GRE covers and what the small college actually offers; Limitations of the GRE.

The article focuses on the prediction of graduate performance in economics course at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin. It employs a comprehensive set of predictors and attempts to develop a fuller and richer set of results with the help of a multiple regression model. In addition, the use of a measure of undergraduate school quality, specifically one reflecting the intellectualism of the student body, is found to be highly useful and to explain why undergraduate grade-point averages and Graduate Record Examinations scores are usually found to be poor predictors when used either alone or together. It takes a measure of graduate student success Graduate Grade Point Average during the first and then the first two years of graduate study. It is by no means certain that this measure of performance is the most appropriate one to reflect either the success of graduate work or of career success; indeed, there are some grounds for skepticism about the usefulness of grades in evaluating post-school success, as reflected by income.

Presents information on the Graduate Record Examinations Advanced Speech Test in the U.S. Number of colleges that permit an undergraduate major in speech; Areas and topics on which test items were based.