Reports on the impact of the Children in Placement (CIP) program. CIP was found to expedite through the court the movement of children in foster care to more permanent placement. The program was used as an approach in an effort to better implement the 1980 Adoption Assistance and Child Welfare Act (P.L. 96-272). (BB)

Presents data on adoption, adopted children, and children placed for adoption by women 15-44 years of age. Results suggest that the downward trend in the annual number of adoptions observed from 1970 through 1975 has leveled off. Racial, educational, and socioeconomic differences in placement and adoption are discussed. (Author/BL)

A critique of the "bandwagon effect" in educational innovation. Many new ideas in the past have seemed promising at first and have caught on quickly, only to be subsequently discarded as "chaff." (TE)

Literature concerning relationships among structural attributes of organizations and literature focusing on the adoption of innovations are integrated, and a model of innovation adoption is tested against data gathered in a nationwide survey of United States hospitals. (Author)

Two studies were conducted to evaluate newly developed measures of attitudes about adoption. The Attitudes toward Adoption Scale was developed, based on research literature, to investigate the attitudes of people with and without experience with adoption toward adoption. Eighty-six college students completed this scale and made open-ended comments…

Crucial concerns for business educators revolve around the educator's ability to change, to prepare students to be citizens and consumers, to assist in selecting realistic career objectives and training for occupational clusters, to be knowledgeable regarding new teaching strategies, to adapt to different curricular patterns, and to be ready for…

Diffusion, as it relates to social studies reform, involves disseminating information about change in such a way as to improve and expand the use in schools of innovations in social education. (Author)

Text of a speech given at the NCTE convention; a tongue-in-cheek Scriptural basis'' for the teaching of English. (SP)

Provides personal recollections of the hostility and obstacles faced in developing a women's studies course at Flinders University. (LL)

A variety of recent learning theories are discussed, and the possible integration of the models is examined. It is suggested that despite problems of terminology, development of separate schools of research, and commonality of concerns, each theory contains certain key concepts from which one can produce a meta-model. (MSE)

Briefly discusses diffusion theory as an orientation for understanding why an individual becomes a videotex user, and reports the results of an early videotex pilot test, Channel 2000, which indicated that it was perceived less favorably as users gained more experience in its use. (MBR)

An eight-item questionnaire (in French) was used with 100 Montreal male/female consumers to determine type of media they use, their fundamental attitudes toward nutrition information, and their reactions to nutrition information provided previously through the media. Results indicate receptivity to more information if it was in keeping with their…

Explores how individuals evaluate political issues by using various inputs of political information (conceptual differentiation) and how they organize ideas and information in terms of abstract or ideological constructs (conceptual integration). (Author/DB)