Increasingly numerous and urgent requests for guidelines prompted the preparation of this publication listing the principal responsibilities of the chairman of a high school department of business and distributive education. An attempt is made to recommend criteria for small as well as large schools with realization that the scope of the…

The primary purpose of this annual directory is to help groups and individuals locate contemporary, American fiction writers. Information about more than 800 fiction writers and poets who also write fiction (organized geographically by state) includes current addresses, teaching preferences, and most recent publications. For authors who are…

This article discusses the U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare's regulations governing implementation of Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 and offers information and guidelines to aid school personnel in complying with the Title IX regulations. The author briefly describes the purpose of Title IX and presents examples of…

Directed toward media specialists and social studies teachers, this article outlines a selection process and evaluation criteria for print and nonprint social studies materials. (SJL)

Guidelines developed by the Professional Standards and Ethics Committee of the International Reading Association in May 1978 list attitudes, concepts, and skills necessary for seven different roles in reading instruction. (MKM)

Describes case studies undertaken in Australia on the lines suggested by the publication of the American Library Association's "Behavioral Requirements Analysis and Checklist," (BRAC) a compilation of competency-based job functions and test statements for school library personnel. (VT)

Pitfalls, snares, and other traps to avoid in planning a media facility. (Author)

A methodology for developing behavioral checklists to assess the techniques of performing a physical examination is described. Behavioral checklists seem to avoid the problems associated with rating scales since they require a minimum degree of subjective judgment on the part of observers. The results of validity and reliability studies are…

The first in a series of articles raises some questions and offers suggestions about a few of the basic concepts of media center planning. (Author/MLF)

In an informal poll of administrators and experienced board members, two short checklists were used. One consisted of trustee actions that might be considered invasions of administration, the other of presidential actions that might be thought to encroach upon trustee responsibility. (LBH)

The Minimum Essential Drug Information Checklist (MEDIC) was designed at Purdue University in response to a need for more structure in the approach to drug education in veterinary medicine. It covers: therapeutic goal, routes given, dose form, dose interval, duration of therapy, withdrawal time, cost, precautions, reactions, antidote, and therapy…

Examines the impact of pubertal status and timing, independent of chronological age, on the family relationships of adolescents in 204 families with a firstborn child between the ages of 10 and 15. Measures included adolescent and parental reports of closeness, confict, and autonomy and assessments of adolesents' pubertal status and pubertal…

Parent rating scales (e.g., Child Behavior Checklist) provide a standardized format for obtaining a differentiated picture of parents' perceptions of the child. Scales are especially useful as part of the initial intake evaluation and for reassessment to evaluate treatment effects and follow-up status of children with attention deficit disorder.…

This checklist provides guidance on how to measure adequacy of control and security of computer systems, identifies areas of risk, raises management and user awareness of their stewardship responsibilities, and reviews issues relative to system documentation, maintenance, integrity, and reliability. (MBR)

Presents a checklist used to evaluate new, extensively revised, or vendor courses at the American Telephone and Telegraph Communications Center for Systems Education. The checklist is completed by both a subject matter expert taking the course as a student, and an instructional technologist familiar with systematic course development. (MBR)