The difficulties of over-reliance on prepackaged assessment center programs are discussed, along with pointers for determining whether a company should use prepackaged or custom-designed assessment centers. (JOW)

Eleven school psychology and 19 special education graduate students were asked to make a placement decision for a student based on data about IQ, adaptive behavior, and academic achievement. IQ had a powerful paralyzing effect on further flexibility in problem solving. (Author/CL)

Describes a British Columbian demonstration project which employed permanent planning to reduce foster care drift. (Author/MP)

A psychologist describes a counseling situation in which the divorced parents of an 11-year-old, behavior problem child disagreed about his future school placement. (CL)

Describes a student placement program for freshman composition courses. (MKM)

Describes how a small college, in the face of an outdated image as a teacher's college, has aggressively sought to place its business graduates in jobs. Several techniques for attracting college recruiters are described. (Author)

Describes the process one school district uses in attempting to place students with teachers whose teaching style best matches the way the student learns. (IRT)

A bank vice president reviews three barriers to the employment of handicapped persons: misunderstanding and lack of knowledge concerning the handicapped, the traditional lag between recognition of a problem and its solution, and apathy and disinterest. (CL)

This article describes the results of a study that examined alternative methods of placement into the mathematics curriculum. Findings indicated that an institutional placement policy that prescribed placement using test scores and self-reported high school preparation resulted in student placement into higher-level mathematics courses with equal…

The Tests of Adult Basic Education (TABE) and Tests of Adult Literacy Skills were used to place 168 adult literacy students into classes. The 37-minute TABE Locator Test predicted placements as well as or better than the full 3-hour TABE. Therefore, lengthy placement tests for four or fewer class levels may not be necessary. (SK)

Considers that if there is one writer who may appear in successive years on the AP (Advanced Placement) literature exam, it is Shakespeare. Sets out to discover something about what the connection between drives for accountability, the growing popularity of the AP English class, and the teaching of Shakespeare means for students at the high school…

Outlines the Emporia State University methodology for developing and implementing a placement survey focusing on employment situation, salary, and geographic location as these are the most commonly asked questions by students and are federal requirements. Demonstrates how to successfully collect annual post-graduation follow-up information.…

Author describes his career changes as he moved from being a career planning and placement administrator at the university level to being a college recruitment coordinator for a private industry, and back again to become the director of the Career Planning Center at Tufts University. (Author/NB)

Conducted national survey to determine how career changing/job seeking alumni are served by career services offices and how alumni are used by career services offices to help current students with their career planning. Responses from 767 colleges and universities revealed that most career offices offered career services to alumni and used alumni…