Three papers facetiously dealing with college administration. These papers are part of a book by the above named author, a professor at New York University. (MF)

This introduction dedicates the special issue to Jack Culbertson, retiring director of the University Council for Educational Administration, and briefly chronicles the dramatic development of educational administration, described as a movement from scientific approaches to scholarship to criticism of logical positivism-based theory, and from…

Describes an analytical approach to scoring essay questions that involves four steps: (1) specifying features answers to the essay question should contain; (2) specifying criteria for judging adequacy of those features; (3) assigning point values to those criteria; and (4) reading student answers, using the criteria to determine their scores.…

Examines collective bargaining patterns which have emerged in education, the effects which collective bargaining has had on school media programs, and the major role the school media supervisor can play in this area. (Author)

Authority control of a cataloging database is essential to support an effective machine readable catalog. Automated authority control can provide assistance with the difficult, intellectually demanding part of cataloging: integrating new items into a collection. (Author)

Introduces this special issue on the theory and foundations of information retrieval by discussing the growth of non-library items, the issues of speed and precision in automated retrieval, the differences between document and data retrieval, the scope and foundations of information retrieval, and the future of the field. (JD)

In considering new career developments, mid-career special librarians must evaluate their strengths and weaknesses, make a firm commitment to some type of professional development program, and market their experience and newly acquired skills to executives who can help them up the management ladder. (Author)

The essay test has great potential to assess the higher levels of student understanding of economics. The problem is that most instructors fail to exploit the significant advantage of this testing method and to avoid its pitfalls. The author highlights the advantages and pitfalls to essay testing in economics and gives instructors many practical…

Through a project called "By Teens, for Teachers," 464 short essays were written by teenagers about issues specific to the experience of today's adolescents. In this descriptive study, participants chose from thirteen different writing prompts derived from an extensive literature review to reflect issues in adolescent development. Essays were…

Richard Shusterman's idea in his latest book, "Performing Live"--to make available a set of essays that sum up and tie together some of his central concerns during the last decade--is excellent and welcome. Readers of the book get a complex blend of essays from one of the most interesting and interdisciplinary philosophers writing in the United…

This article presents a collection of work that grew out of an international symposium sponsored by the History of Education Society UK and held in Hamburg in 2007. The symposium aimed to contribute to understandings of different approaches to researching the extent to which education has contributed historically to social change in respect of…