Recent research into the needs of marginalised young men in the inner west of Sydney found that there are serious problems related to service accessibility for this group. This article explores some of these key issues related to accessibility including: the help-seeking behaviour of disadvantaged young men; organisational barriers, such as the…

Problem-based learning (PBL) has been widely adopted in many university programmes. Evaluations of PBL in medicine, dentistry, nursing and social work reveal positive outcomes from both tutors and learners. However, few evaluations have been published about using PBL in teacher education programmes. This paper reports how the 13 student-teachers…

This study examined the perceptions of 88 graduate students on the use of Web-based instruction in preparing special education personnel. Following the collection of data using surveys, 6 participants were randomly selected from the original sample and interviewed. Findings supported Web-based instruction as a convenient way for students to pursue…

Due to the declining state of the current economy, a greater demand is being placed on student affairs professionals to provide evidence of the success of their programs, their impact on student learning and development and overall contributions to the undergraduate learning experience. It is a growing imperative that student affairs professionals…

There is a large research base indicating numerous gender differences in prevalence rates of psychopathology, the expression of psychopathology, and the etiology of psychopathology across different disorders (Zahn-Waxler, Shirtcliff, & Marceau, 2008). Such documented gender differences in mental health among children and adolescents have…

This document offers the comments of an attendee at the Phase IV conference of the Michigan Consortium on Assistive Device Delivery Systems (MCADDS). It is noted that the fourth year conference's general emphasis was on the need to inform and educate others about assistive technology and to increase general acceptance of disabilities. In addition…

This executive summary provides a brief description of the Model Adoption Exchange Payment System (MAEPS), a unique payment system aimed at improving the delivery of adoption exchange services throughout the United States. Following a brief introductory overview, MAEPS is described in terms of (1) its six components (registration, listing,…

A discussion of how individualized instruction has been used by Xerox to: 1) identify appropriate instructional techniques; and 2) reduce costs by devising a delivery system by which programs prepared under a "single point" design/development concept can be distributed to users at various geographical locations. (Author)

A look at how media is provided for American overseas dependents' schools. (HB)

A discussion of the U.S. educational media programs based on distribution by the ATS-6 satellite. (HB)

The People Mobile is a specially outfitted 24 foot motor home equipped with a meeting room, a telephone, and a wealth of useful information; this machine and its staff travel the back roads of Chenango County, New York supplying rural residents with various social services. (JC)

A study analyzed circulation practices and pricing of mid-sized daily newspapers, seeking to draw together a comprehensive description of the circulation situation for those papers. Seventy-five circulation directors, randomly selected from newspapers with daily circulation between 25,000 and 100,000, completed mailed questionnaires requesting…

Because of the central position of case management theory to the whole of human services, Project SHARE developed this annotated bibliography, which attempts to give a representative variety of views on case management. The bibliography contains abstracts of documents discussing applications of case management in diverse delivery environments and…

Instructional package technology can meet the needs of the aging and aged developmentally disabled person by focusing on specific functional skill instruction by paraprofessionals. (CL)

The proportion of metropolitan interviewees aware of the project tested was not significantly different from the nonmetropolitan interviewee proportion who were aware of the project. Television spots were found to be the most effective form of information dissemination. (KR)