Discusses the skills and qualifications to look for when choosing a landscape architect for educational facilities. (EV)

Much criticism is leveled at the nature and usefulness of the employment interview. Despite its shortcomings and the availability of more objective means of selection, classification, and placement, the personal interview is used pervasively. A structured interview can increase the reliability and validity of the technique. (JOW)

Under the Americans with Disabilities Act, training managers cannot ignore the valuable resource represented by the motivated, talented, qualified applicant who happens to have a disability. (Author/JOW)

Explores how California State University at Channel Islands, cut costs and time in their faculty recruitment and selection process by using the Internet and specialized software. The website for the software package is included. (GR)

Provides tips for hiring a consultant for educational technology projects, developing the request for proposal for a consultant, and evaluating proposals for awarding contracts. Some questions to ask when educational leaders are looking for expert help are listed. (GR)

Evaluated the use of Mallow's C(p) and Wherry's adjusted R squared (R. Wherry, 1931) statistics to select a final model from a pool of model solutions using computer generated data. Neither statistic identified the underlying regression model any better than, and usually less well than, the stepwise selection method, which itself was poor for…

Interviews with eight coordinators of youth organization volunteers indicated that most used position descriptions, applications, reference checks, and interviews as screening tools; only four checked motor vehicle records and three checked criminal records. Consistent policies and advanced screening devices were recommended. (SK)

Used two tasks to evaluate the grain of visual attention, the minimum spacing at which attention can select individual items. Results for eight adults on a tracking task and five adults on an individuation task show that selection has a coarser grain than visual resolution and suggest that the parietal area is the most likely locus of the…

Six pigeons were trained on a procedure in which seven components arranged different food-delivery ratios on concurrent variable-interval schedules each session. The components were unsignaled, lasted for 10 food deliveries, and occurred in random order with a 60-s blackout between components. The schedules were arranged using a switching-key…

Fitting propensity (FP) is defined as a model's average ability to fit diverse data patterns, all else being equal. The relevance of FP to model selection is examined in the context of structural equation modeling (SEM). In SEM it is well known that the number of free model parameters influences FP, but other facets of FP are routinely excluded…

Efforts of the College of Education and Human Services Diversity Committee at a medium sized, midwestern university to address the diversity needs of the college are described. The Diversity Committee formulated systematic goals, engaged in dialogue, and took action to increase the potential for hiring diverse faculty in the college. A Diversity…

It is apparent that human resources departments and people coordinating the selection of teachers need the financial resources and the tools to select only the very best teachers--those who will maximize student learning and development. All too often district budgets are heavy in the curricular areas, leaving human resources struggling with a…

Research findings indicate that students' course selections impact the racial and ethnic achievement gap. Exposure to advanced-level courses has been found to lessen this gap and enhances success after high school. Despite this, African American students tend to evidence lower participation in these courses than do other racial and ethnic student…

This report presents selected findings from the school principal data files of the 2007-08 Schools and Staffing Survey (SASS). SASS is a nationally representative sample survey of public, private, and Bureau of Indian Education-funded (BIE) K-12 schools, principals, and teachers in the 50 states and the District of Columbia. The public school…

The partnership between AISD and the Charles A. Dana Center was designed to improve the teaching and learning of math and showed promise in its second year of implementation. This report provides a detailed summary of results.