This study is an in-depth investigation of the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards (NBPTS) bias-reduction training, from the perspective of assessors. The research examined how successful the bias training was in guiding assessors to recognize their biases and to identify actions to be used to reduce the impact of bias on their…

This study investigated the effects of the use of piles on the reliability and level of theme grades; and the effects of the number of grading categories on the reliability and level of theme grades, awarded to undergraduate English compositions. (CS)

Half of a two-part English Language Arts Achievement Test, this test evaluates composition skills in Grade 6. It contains general instructions for the student, as well as the beginning of a story to be completed by the student, and blank pages for ideas/planning, for planning and drafting, and for the revised work. The instructions indicate that…

This special issue of the "Indiana English Journal" is devoted exclusively to the writing of Jesse Stuart. Two of his poems, "John and Ephesus" and "Synthetic Heroes," are included, as well as an interview with Stuart in which his life history, his views on writing in general, and his views on his own writing in…

Essays contained in this document present a direction for policy and problemsolving in the realm of postsecondary education. The essays cover: (1) the "new" domain of postsecondary education, (2) the growth and financing of postsecondary education, (3) a lottery system for higher education, (4) credentialism, (5) campus disaffection, (6) the…

This publication examines the purposes and functions of policy as a conceptual focus for the problems and issues of higher education. Emphasis is placed on the conceptual difficulties of policy, distinctive features of policy, and policy functions and issues. The major contention suggests that the purpose of policy is to provide a general…

Following introductory material, four monographs on collective bargaining are presented. The first, the strategy and tactics of collective bargaining, offers valuable suggestions as to how negotiations should be conducted and concludes on a positive note arguing that no clear dichotomy exists between faculty and administrator power. The second…

This book is written as a statement of concern about pollution by members of Pollution Probe, a citizens' anti-pollution group in Canada. Its purpose is to create public awareness and pressure for the eventual solution to pollution problems. The need for effective government policies to control the population explosion, conserve natural resources,…

The post-World War II period was one of the liveliest in the history of the cinema. This is a collection of 33 critical articles on some of the best films of the perd. Most of the essays explicate the themes and symbols of the films. The essays deal with these films: "The Apu Trilogy,""L'Avventura,""Balthazar,""Blow-Up,""Bonnie and Clyde," Citizen…

This Film Focus series presents selected information about the respected and controversial French filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard and his films. Information is documented through reports of interviews, reviews, essays, and commentaries. Included are filmographies of Godard's films, beginning in 1954 and continuing through 1972. Also, there is a selected…

This Film Focus series is a collection of reviews, essays, and commentaries on the Japanese film Rashomon. The plot consists of an attack, a rape, and a robbery, all of which probably occurred during the Middle Ages. Each character relates his own version of what happened, or might have happened, revealing the outward and inner driving forces,…

How students at Oregon State University use a new self-service media production laboratory to produce media instead of print term papers. (HB)

GURU is a computer program developed to analyze data generated by open-ended question techniques such as ECHO or other semistructured data collection techniques in which data are categorized. The program provides extensive descriptive statistics and allows extensive flexibility in comparing data. (Author/JKS)

Describes one teacher's presentation of the essay via the photograph; once students realized the parallels between planning a photograph and preparing to write, they not only wrote better, they saved time. (KS)

Suggests the distinction between reseeing and rewriting is the difference between substitution and combination. Claims that the epistemic approach imagines composition as a process through which the writer might learn something, and sees texts as indeterminate, open to further interpretation. (MS)