Explanations of minority school failure incorporate native definitions of failure and minority group membership. They are limited by their starting assumptions and they are apologies for our present system. Minority school failure and its explanations by social scientists are two levels of the same process that we need to confront. (Author/VM)

Reviews the Linked Systems project protocols in the Name Authority Distribution Application and describes the requirements they were designed to meet. A technical evaluation of the protocols in actual operation at OCLC is presented, and suggestions for improved performance are made. (Author/CLB)

Faculty resistance to an annual faculty evaluation system implemented at the University of Northern Colorado was widespread. Four factors characterized faculty members most dissatisfied with the evaluation of their performance: years in service at the university, level of the evaluation, impact on salary, and inconsistency among the evaluators.…

Reveals that different aspects of the environment differentially contributed to variability in communication performance of one-year-old infants. Findings support the environmental specificity hypothesis and underline the need to consider physical environmental parameters when investigating environmental influences. (Author/RH)

The study addressed the question, "Did students within some areas of concentration in business outperform students in other areas of concentration in lower-division economics courses?" Results indicate the answer is "yes" and that the best performance comes from students in (1) accounting, (2) finance, and (3) management information systems. (CH)

Determined the influence of selected instructional, student, and home variables on 11th grade Jordanian students' (N=313) attitudes toward science. Attitudes were measured with an instrument constructed by the author utilizing the Thurstone-Chave Technique. Student's perception of science ability was found to be the only variable affecting…

Results suggest that infants' errors in searching for a visible object reflect lapses of attention rather than systematic misunderstandings of objects or space and so are not incompatible with an information-processing account of early search. (Author/RH)

A study of the relationship between principals' leadership style and teacher stress and satisfaction indicates that teachers' performances are influenced by their perception of principals' behavior. (Author)

Presents findings from a study that applied selected school effectiveness factors to effective elementary schools of differing student socioeconomic status. Reports that most effectiveness factors are strongly influenced by the social context of the school: thus, practitioners should not treat the well-publicized effectiveness factors as…

Examines the tendency of observers to make less reliable recordings of behavorial events when a calibrating observer is absent. Using four different multicategory systems, 26 experienced observers coded 200 hours of videotaped family interactions. Concludes that observers lapse into a less attentive "set" prior to coding without a…

Compared the cognitions of high and low math anxious undergraduates (N=71) who were asked to think aloud while solving mathematical problems. Results showed no anxiety-related differences for either performance or 11 categories of cognitions, and no sex differences in performance or for a linear combination of cognitions. (JAC)

Summarizes the research evidence indicating that it is not the media that influence performance, but the instructional strategies used with them, considers some administrative advantages of using different media, and describes the features of training programs that do influence performance. (MBR)

To explore the relationship between spatial ability and both image quality and image process efficiency, 79 subjects completed spatial tests, imagery questionnaires, and laboratory tasks. Laboratory measures of process efficiency and image quality were strongly related to spatial test performance and weakly related to one another. (Author/BW)

Observes the increasing use of class test scores for rating teachers and reviews arguments against this practice. Cites research pointing to a variety of influences on standardized test scores other than teacher performance. Concludes that teacher evaluation must incorporate a variety of measures. (KH)

A process-product study examined classroom contexts and teaching practices related to mathematics achievement and enjoyment of Year 5 students in Australia. More effective teachers more frequently presented to large groups, used teacher and peer tutoring in small groups, monitored individual practice, and marked homework assignments which varied…