This document presents four essays that offer a case against replacing New York University's present system of governance and decisionmaking on both economic and professional matters with formal collective bargaining under federal law. The first essay presents an overview of the issues in the collective bargaining election. The second essay…

Smith (1969) reported the results of an instrument for measuring teacher judgment of written composition. His test was first administered to a group of "experts" whose ratings were in high agreement. Then the test was given to a sample of over 200 teachers and lay readers. Among Smith's conclusions was that over half of the teachers have judgment…

The theme of this discursive essay is residential continuing education: its definition, its development along somewhat different lines in Europe and in America, and its practice in university centers in the United States. Continuing education includes any learning or teaching program that is based on the assumptions that the learners have studied…

A method of grading essay examinations that measures the credibility, quality, and volume of a student's answers is explained. Responses are marked either correct or incorrect and assigned a point value, using the system which is described. (Author/RAO)

Examining the theory used by the Puritans to justify their jurisdictional claims in America, this essay discusses Roger Williams' arguments for the validity and significance of the English patent in New England as applicable to the Narragansett Indians and to dissident Rhode Islanders. (JC)

Evelyn Waugh, a controversial and notable author, wrote a war trilogy, Sword of Honour. Although the study of the philosophy of art is complicated, entailing serious problems for the philosopher, particularly with respect to literature, the aim of this essay is to evaluate Waugh's trilogy. Examines Waugh's use of literary elements and includes…

Presents four basic steps students should follow in formula essay writing. (DD)

Explores the erroneous assumptions underlying Burleson's criticism of Beatty and Payne and examines in context the evidence selected by Burleson to support his criticism. (NKA)

Describes ways in which the prologue can be used in the classroom to illustrate the basic five-step outline of the essay. (KS)

The research described in this paper shows the use of lexical semantic techniques for automated scoring of short-answer and essay responses from performance-based test items. Researchers used lexical semantic techniques in order to identify the meaningful content of free-text responses for small data sets. One data set involved 172 training…

Illuminating the social history of the time and presenting the thoughts of an eminent Royalist statesman, Clarendon's Dialogue ought to assume a significance at least equal to some of the better-known Puritan tracts. (Author)

By providing students with several choices, the open examination is not a trap to reveal students' inadequacies but rather an opportunity for them to discover and reveal how much they know. (GB)

The author shows how a book entitled The Foxfire Book" truly characterizes life, past and present, in Appalachia. (MF)