Presents a fictionalized version of an employment interview in which a faculty member is questioning a candidate as an element of the search process for position of director in an academic library. Unspoken thoughts and concerns are included. (EJS)

Taped actual employment interviews at a university placement center to determine relationships between interviewer's questions, applicants' question-answer durations, and actual interview outcomes. Found--among other results--that interviewees who received second-interview offers tended to spend more total time talking in their interviews than…

Fifth-grade students (N=111) read a short, nonnarrative passage and wrote answers to a set of textually explicit (TE), textually implicit (TI), schema-based (SB), or text irrelevant (CONTROL) questions. Results indicate that TE and TI questions promote text-based question-answer interactions; SB questions promote both text-based and schema-based…

Presented is a questionnaire to help individuals determine their own unique thinking style: pragmatist, analyst, realist, synthesist, and idealist. Questionnaire is from "Styles of Thinking: Strategies for Asking Questions, Making Decisions, and Solving Problems" by Robert Bramson and Allen Harrison. (JN)

Several randomized response models for gathering self-report data when persons are asked sensitive questions are reviewed. A new general model for reducing error by asking questions conditional upon earlier answers is introduced. Hypothesis testing and confidence-interval procedures are demonstrated for data collected by the randomized response…

Two experiments investigated whether instructions to students about how and what to learn can facilitate learning as effectively as adjunct postquestions. Adjunct-question, instruction, and adjunct-question plus instruction groups performed significantly better than the control group in recall of verbatim factual information and in responding to…

Provides a checklist of the most important techniques for interviewing potential faculty members, as selected by a panel of personnel directors. The purposes served by these techniques fall into four categories: helping candidates relax and express themselves, and helping interviewers evaluate candidates' teaching competence and enthusiasm for…

Comments on the nature of taxonomies in education generally and in reading specifically. Examines alternatives to taxonomies as they are traditionally used in reading instruction, and proposes a number of comprehension strategies to use in conjunction with the Thomas Barrett Taxonomy of Reading. (FL)

Assesses the adequacy of Robert S. Taylor's model of question formulation in the context of online presearch interviews, and presents an altered model which introduces the bearers of needs and makes distinctions about those needs as isolated or negotiated events in the interviews. Thirty-three references are listed. (FM)

The educational sector should be concerned about the reasons for and consequences of employee turnover. One of the ways in which an institution can assess the reasons for the departure of its employees is the exit interview. An exit interview is designed to gain information about voluntary employee turnover. (MLW)

Examines how communicative practice has been used and misused by some teachers in the classroom and how the importance of correction technique has been virtually ignored. Refers mostly to question-answer conversations and picture descriptions. (EKN)

To investigate the extent to which free play versus a sequenced questioning paradigm facilitated preschoolers' associative fluency, 36 children were randomly assigned to one of three conditions: free play, questioning, or control, and asked to articulate novel uses for conventional objects. Responses in the questioning condition were significantly…