Suggests that human performance technologists need to have an analysis approach to support the development of an appropriate set of improvement recommendations for clients and then move to an action plan to help them see results. Presents a performance improvement model and a systematic approach that considers organizational context, ownership,…

Describes empirical investigations of people's use of relevance criteria. Highlights include a laboratory experiment and a naturalistic study that explored the patterns of movement in use of relevance criteria during real-time document evaluation processes; criteria patterns; and a classification scheme and criteria taxonomy that may enable…

Raises concerns about how context is conceptualized and researched in many current school violence inquiries, explaining that teachers' and students' understandings of violence in certain school subcontexts (hallways, bathrooms, and cafeterias) remains an under-researched area. Raises other concerns about lack of a philosophical discussion…

Examines the contradiction between S. Crowley and L. Faigley, who suggest that postmodernism has eliminated any role for linguistics in composition studies, and M. Nystrand, S. Greene, and J. Wiemelt, who maintain that research inspired by M.A.K. Halliday and M. Bakhtin promises to restore linguistics to a central place. (TB)

Emphasizes the importance of context within the curriculum when implementing the Big6 information and technology skills. Curriculum mapping is described as a means of gathering and displaying information about curriculum units which can then be analyzed to select units and assignments best suited to integrated information and technology skills…

Used multivariate latent growth modeling to conceptualize and analyze intra-individual changes in children's social skills and intraindividual differences in these changes in home and school settings for 378 children from kindergarten to grade 3. Results suggest that the nature of the intraindividual change in children's social skills may be…

Four studies assessed adults' latencies to signal they would respond to infant crying as a function of perceived infant distress and contextual information relevant to caregiving. Results suggested that adults' responses are influenced by both acoustic gradations in the cry and the caregiving context. Ratings of degree of distress may be highly,…

Discusses the trend toward ubiquitous computing and the challenge to enhance the behavior of any application by informing it of the context of its use. Defines context related to the interaction between humans, applications, and the surrounding environment; and presents a conceptual framework and a toolkit for supporting the rapid prototyping of…

Two studies examined whether preschool children would attend to object function over shape when labeling several familiar artifacts. Found that preschoolers attended to shape in all conditions, even when the artifact function was demonstrated. Their attention to shape was weaker when asked to "find another one" or to find another object…

Investigates whether the spoken nature of electronic mail messages has already started to affect business written communication. Examines register and context of the language as well as the style used in commercial electronic mail. (Author/VWL)

Reviews research into the role of gender in computer-mediated communication (CMC) interactions. Criticizes the frequent claim that CMC is free of gender-based inequalities because of the lack of face-to-face cues and emphasizes the important role of social context in providing and limiting opportunities for instructional interactions. (SLD)

The National College for School Leadership in Nottingham, England, was founded to provide a national focus for school leadership development and research, become a driving force for world-class leadership, and serve as a provider and promoter of excellence and innovation in education. The College is committed to an evidence-informed approach to…

Little is known about the influence of relationship characteristics on a womans desire for a baby with her partner. This study addresses that gap, using data from a study of 1,114 low-income women in the southeast who were in a relationship. Controlling for sociodemographic factors, women who were in more established relationships, who had not had…

Many concepts in developmental psychology are inferred or confirmed from very particular experimental or naturalistic observations but investigators often generalize their validity to a broad domain of situations. This permissiveness is affecting progress. This paper provides examples of this error and criticizes the tendency to award essences to…

The theme of a narrative text is its main point or moral that is often implied between lines. A rapid serial visual presentation procedure (RSVP) was used to examine the online status of generation of thematic inference during narrative text comprehension. In Experiment 1, the target words were presented in different contexts with different time…