Ethnographic data from a study of one teacher education program highlighted preservice teachers' values and beliefs concerning minority education. Results suggest that preservice teachers experience and adopt a meritocratic and hegemonic system of schooling in which academic performance is viewed in terms of individual abilities and based on…

Describes a study conducted at Rutgers University (New Jersey) that observed 24 graduate students' relevance judgments during information retrieval. Discusses implications for finding relevance dimensions, the measurement of relevance, thesaurus construction, evaluation of information retrieval, and variables affecting relevance judgments. (LRW)

Discusses the need for libraries to market the value of their services. Highlights include customer satisfaction surveys; competition with other information providers; borrowing ideas from the private sector; focusing on marketing electronic resources; targeting younger users; the importance of personal service; and having a budget for…

Describes a project undertaken in the Yale University Library to develop a rational approach for the selection and appraisal of collections of faculty papers. Serves as a case study of the application of a method developed by the Minnesota Historical Society to a collecting repository within an academic setting. (Author/LRW)

Male and female eleventh grade students from 14 schools in Tel Aviv were tested to determine the effect of gender and other factors on values and value judgments. No predominating factor was found, although gender effect could be quantified. (DM)

Argues that more attention must be given in counselor preparation and practice to developing critical reflectiveness about valued ends when making professional judgments. Describes and evaluates an instructional model designed to further students' capacities and motivations for making rational moral judgments in counseling. (Author/TE)

Investigated 48 fifth- and eighth-grade boys' moral judgments of stories featuring good intentions with bad outcomes. Clear differences in moral judgments were found between groups recruited from the same general social setting that were comparable in intelligence but different in moral and social behavior. (RJC)

Reports on a research study designed to explore the impact of life experiences upon the development of moral judgment. Concentrates on the noncollege context. Participants interviewed were selected from an established longitudinal sample. Findings suggested that while moral judgment scores may predict lifestyles, there are no certain experiences…

Encourages teachers to regain the Sophistic awareness that no teaching is done in a social and political vacuum, that teachers must make judgments about which issues are more important than others, which issues deserve to be studied, and which issues should be ignored. (RAE)

Teachers can have a moral impact on students in multiple and subtle ways. Several layers of moral meaning embedded in classroom teaching and the teacher's role are analyzed, regarding "moral" in the sense of mores (customary actions) and moral values. (SLD)

Examined the self-understanding and moral judgment of 15 African American and Hispanic American adolescents nominated by community leaders for their exemplary caring behavior. These "care exemplars" were more likely than comparison adolescents to describe themselves in terms of moral personality traits and goals and to view themselves as…

Consistency of moral judgment across different dilemmas and social contexts and the relationship between the structure and content of moral judgment was studied for 40 men given hypothetical dilemmas. Findings demonstrate that type of dilemma may affect the structure of moral reasoning and illustrate various stages of moral reasoning. (SLD)

Middle-aged (n=160) and older (n=160) adults were asked to list the 10 most important events in the twentieth-century United States. Classification and analysis of answers supported the notion that gender and age are related to value judgment. The effects of education were often opposite on the middle aged and the elderly. (SK)

This study examined judgments of document relevance made by library science graduate students who were not the originators of the queries for which the documents were retrieved. Although the secondary judgments compared well with those of the original users, it was found that secondary judges used document record fields differently and had a…

The evaluation of a fellowship program in the health sciences for 60 Philippine graduates at the University of Hong Kong highlights areas of conflict. Twenty-six fellows were interviewed. Value judgments about a program's worth ultimately depend on the evaluation's perspective, whether that of participants or an outside party. (SLD)