Reviews arguments for and against student evaluation of faculty instruction. Discusses the following alternatives to rating scales: mail questionnaires, telephone interviews, observer evaluations, in-class discussions, weekly logs, and students' course descriptions. Offers guidelines for refining and implementing these alternatives. (PD)

Proposes an inductively derived taxonomy as a more valid and reliable classification scheme of compliance-gaining strategies. Compares the taxonomy with a multidimensional scaling representation of college students' perceptions of persuasive messages. Concludes that the taxonomy has a high degree of representational validity. (PD)

Explores the meaning of the term "communication" vs. "mere talk" in selected instances of American speech about interpersonal life. Analyzes two case studies and transcripts of the Phil Donahue Show. Also discusses communication as ritual and ethnography as a form of communication inquiry. (PD)

Surveys possibilities for future scholarship in public address. Notes that the communication historian in an age of information must take into account (1) the mass and diversity of public communication events and (2) the dominant intellectual version of information in speech communication. (PD)

Reports the findings of a survey commissioned by the Speech Communication Association's Task Force on Assessment and Testing. Concludes that many states are including speaking and listening skills in curriculum and assessment programs but that much work still needs to be done to develop an integrated oral communication program. (PD)

Reviews publications and documents from "Resources in Education" useful to speech communication teachers in curriculum planning or classroom instruction. (PD)

Data suggest that, given a situation where no rewards are expected and no gain is to be found by exhibiting convergent behavior, there will be no difference in speech accommodation (the attempt to adopt speech patterns of an interlocutor) by male and female Mexican American bilinguals. (Author/CM)

Contrasts the relationships between the communication apprehension construct and its two most common operationalizations--the 20- and 25-item versions of the Personal Report of Communication Apprehension (PRCA). Concludes that the PRCA may be valuable as an indirect measure of evaluation apprehension, but not of oral communication apprehension.…

Collected and studied personal messages which were reported to exert a powerful influence on the course of people's lives. Explored the relationship between memorable messages and proverbs. (PD)

Concludes that college and university administrators need to be more informed on how qualified females and other minorities become aware of available positions and what recruiting factors are necessary to hire these candidates. (PD)

Study of communication departments was conducted to determine the in-service training and teacher assignments of graduate teaching assistants. (PD)

Urges speech communication educators to adapt their curricula to the needs of potential law students. Describes a course of instruction which includes units on communication theory and the legal/trial process, interviewing and counseling, negotiating and pretrial strategies, and special topics in judicial communication. (PD)

Investigates the relationship between an observer's familiarity with the normal, truthful communicative behavior of an individual, and the observer's ability to detect deception on the part of that individual. Provides an experimental test of the degree of linearity between familiarity and judgmental accuracy in detecting deception. (JMF)

Presents data from a five-year follow-up study of basic college speech courses. Indicates that orientation of courses has moved toward a more pronounced public-speaking emphasis with increased attention to performance activities. Enrollment growth and faculty makeup are described. (JMF)

Discusses the results of interviews and questionnaires on the oral communication skills needed by research scientists. Proposes an oral communication course for science majors and generally summarizes its content. (JMF)