The 1969 version of "The Italian Job" is used as context for teaching turning forces and introducing or enhancing the understanding of equilibrium and Newton's Third Law of Motion. A Harrington Legionnaire coach is used as the getaway vehicle for a gold heist and the film ends on a genuine cliffhanger, with the rear half of the coach…

As Big Data becomes increasingly important in policy-making, research, marketing, and commercial applications, we argue that literacy in this domain is critical for engaged democratic participation and that peer-generated data from mobile technologies offer rich possibilities for students to learn about this new genre of data. Through the lens of…

Achievement and competitiveness in women is examined within the new scholarship on women. Past research is reviewed and a new conceptualization of competitiveness is offered. Three tenets of the new scholarship on women identified in previous article by Greiner are described as having particular significance for understanding achievement and…

Reviews strategic variables available to those planning continuing education marketing programs. Discusses generic competitive strategies: (1) overall cost leadership, (2) differentiation, and (3) specialization. Mentions several potential problems. (CH)

Summarizes research on competition as a part of normal development that is disproportionately reinforced within American culture. Concludes that the negative effects of competition are widespread and damaging and that the members of the helping professions have a responsibility to create and protect cooperative environments. (LLL)

The authors, present and recent presidents of the American Educational Research Association (AERA), discuss that organization's endorsement of federal funding for long-term, large-scale educational research and development and its insistence that current competition for funding be both fair and open. (GC)

Examines the policies, services, and coverage of competing commercial databases which offer indexing of newspapers and magazines. (CWM)

Offers a detailed discussion of competitive assessment, an efficient and cost-effective method to evaluate competitive products. Describes its three phases: numerical scoring, building a best-of-breed model, and determining the gap between the best-of-breed model and another product. (SR)

Perhaps the most obvious feature of the relationship between siblings is its diversity. Sibling relationships differ from peer relationships because of their frequency and amount or interaction; the durability of the relationships; the existence of prescribed roles; accessibility; and the degree of common experience. Conflict between siblings in…

The author discusses the advantages of collaboration among continuing education programs. Types of collaboration are described. (CH)

Game-playing has become a more generalized phenomenon than ever, entering into public recreation, school programs, and commercial promotional efforts. Games require competitive interaction between two or more individuals, making game-playing useful in clinical therapy and opening games to technological innovation. The latest such innovation is the…

The author tells how very large, multidivision continuing education programs can use their size as a marketing advantage. Some advantages include (1) superior service, (2) an image of high quality, (3) the bandwagon effect, and (4) stronger buying power. (CH)

Displays the essays and poetry of the first-place winners of the first Michigan Social Studies Olympiad, a competition for fourth through twelfth grade students which had as its theme the celebration of the bicentennial of the U.S. Constitution and Michigan's sesquicentennial. (JDH)

Interviews were conducted with five Black women who work for corporations to ascertain how they "play the game." They agreed that flexibility and restraint are needed to progress and be successful in the corporate world. Also, Black businesswomen should not lose sight of themselves and where they came from. (VM)

Tested the person-by-situation model. State anxiety was assessed prior to a routine training session and before a track meet. Trait anxiety was measured after the training session. There was a significant interaction between social evaluation trait anxiety and the meet situation. (Author)