Due to budgetary restraints, two major tasks confronting the physical education profession are: (1) to increase the overall productivity of the staff; and (2) to identify and weed out nonproductive faculty. An evaluative instrument is presented which measures nonteaching performance in a university department. (JN)

Conditions evolving from educational retrenchment which affect the performance of teacher educators are described. Sources of conflict include institutional and personal demands, elitism and the needs to do research and to publish, and other factors affecting professional performance. (JN)

Two experiments were conducted to investigate the effects of note taking and reviewing on learning from text. The findings supported the encoding function of note taking and demonstrated that unguided elaboration hindered performance on teacher-made tests. (Author/GK)

Identified groups with high and low levels of mistrust of Whites. Half of the participants in each group were then administered the WAIS by a white examiner. The remaining were tested by a Black examiner. The Black examiner-high mistrust group scored significantly higher than the White examiner-high mistrust group. (Author)

Presents evidence from a New York study which indicates that some teachers may be using invalid, nonacademic criteria to place students in remedial reading programs, and suggests that the resulting deviant stigmatizing effects on these students may be inhibiting their academic and social development. (JD)

Counselors with low dogmatism scores are more effective than counselors with higher dogmatism scores. Over the course of training, the group of trainees classified as highly dogmatic both decreased in level of dogmatism and increased in level of counseling effectiveness as measured by improvement in level of performance. (Author)

Suggests that a positive relationship exists between encounter group experience and the soccer team performance--a conclusion worthy of consideration in further research in the fields of psychology and sociology of sports. (Author)

Overt rehearsal and the presence of covert rehearsal in short-term motor memory of a retarded group (ages 13 to 21) and two nonretarded groups (mean ages 10.9 and 16) of students (N=100 in each group) was investigated. Results indicated that retarded persons did not engage in spontaneous covert rehearsal of motor information (while nonretarded…

Case studies of educational program evaluations demonstrate that utilization of evaluative information occurs; however, its forms and the forces influencing utilization are complex. Naturalistic methods were used to study utilization. (See RIE: ED 174 666). (Available from: Jossey-Bass, Inc., 433 California St., San Francisco, CA 94104, single…

Recommends that a "Management by Objectives" (MBO) approach be considered for an effective faculty appraisal system. MBO appraisal is based on the assumptions that faculty members are capable of committing themselves to their work and that they will be allowed to participate in the administration of their areas. (JOW)

A framework based on a series of "instructional events" is presented for planning instruction. (JD)

Examined the effects of different types of reinforcement on the performance of Black males diagnosed as being mildly mentally retarded. Children given tangible or culturally relevant rewards obtained significantly higher scores than did children given either no reinforcement or traditional social reinforcement. (Author)

Variables in student performance--including instructional mode, conceptual approach, perceptual preference, curricular interest, time preference, and counseling needs--are discussed; and the author suggests that alternative schooling which takes these variables into account for individualization would serve gifted students as well as slow learners…

Describes some of the different roles an instructional consultant may fill and their implications for both clients and consultants. The focus is on the differences between consultants as generalists and as specialists, and between consultants as advisors to others and as direct providers of products or services. (Author)

The taxonomy of test wiseness constructed by Millman and others is discussed. Other aspects of test wiseness are reviewed, such as additional influencing factors, manifestations, theoretical approaches, correlates, measures, and methods of minimizing its effects. (MH)