Observes that competition is one of the most important concepts in economics, and that students typically learn a great deal about static competition but very little about dynamic competition. Presents a graphical method for illustrating and contrasting both views of competition. Notes other economic concepts that can be similarly illustrated.…

Presents an activity in which students learn how to label graphs in order to make them meaningful. (ASK)

Provides a summary look at the features provided by nine major World Wide Web search engines. Examines size, Boolean operators, phrase searching capabilities, media searching, format options, and special features. (LRW)

A "flow chart day" is a block of uninterrupted time during which a group participates in a series of preplanned, possible activities in arbitrary order to promote group unity and a sense of being in the moment. Instructions for coordinating the experience, suggestions for group activities, and a "flow chart" are included. (SV)

Discussion of shelf reading as a method to maintain library books in their proper location focuses on a statistical approach to determine when shelf reading is necessary. Uses sampling to obtain data on misshelved books over time and develop a control chart to assess when shelf reading is necessary. (Author/LRW)

This guide is designed to inform school directors about the value of a data dashboard and to provide information on how districts can create a data dashboard for school directors. A data dashboard is a tool for viewing and analyzing student achievement and performance data. Key data for monitoring student achievement and directing policy level…

This handbook is designed to help educational professionals develop cross-functional or departmental quality teams. Nine chapters focus on: (1) the concept of Total Quality Management (TQM) and 14 points for quality in education; (2) team goals and formation; (3) stages of successful team building; (4) the development of quality task teams; (5)…

Article compared the developments of the concert band movement that took place earlier in the twentieth century with the development of the stage band in this country's music curriculum. A list compared the two movements in eleven different ways and predictions were made about the future of the stage band movement. (Author/RK)

The present experiment investigated the effects of preexperimental social deprivation and satiation on the responsitivity of chronic schizophrenic patients to contingent social stimulation. (Author/RK)

The role of acetylcholine and central catecholamines in modulating aversively motivated behaviors, and behavior following exposure to uncontrollable stressors, is evaluated. (Editor)

While incentive contrast has been reliably demonstrated in single-response situations, tests for contrast-of-choice behavior have invariably failed to obtain the effect. Three experiments were reported that eliminated features of prior methodology which can mask the effect. (Editor/RK)

The present paper is concerned with uncontrollable, aversive stimulation. (Editor)

The experiments reported below attempted to reduce the availability of the A-C pairs and the dominance of the set of C responses to determine whether this would increase the subjects' access to the A-B pairs. (Author)

The experiment reported here evaluated the effectiveness of a mnemonic procedure, the keyword method, for learning a foreign language vocabulary. (Editor)

A probe-recognition short-term memory paradigm was used to inquire into the precise effects of sleep deprivation on human memory. (Editor)