Teams share commitment, translate purpose into performance goals, and have members be accountable with and to their teammates. Types of teams are those that recommend, make or do things, and run things. The distinction between teams and other working groups is performance: an effective team is worth more than the sum of its parts. (SK)

A Colorado district's high school social studies teachers have collaborated to design curriculum guides that are useful to teachers, challenging for students, and aimed at integrating content outcomes with the district's five learner outcomes. The shift toward outcome-based education has produced guides emphasizing student performance, not content…

The Goals Review and Organizing Workbook (GROW) is a structured exercise based on personal construct psychology. It is designed to increase self-understanding for making career-related decisions. (SK)

In attempt to understand transfer populations of their respective campuses, orientation directors of two institutions surveyed transfer orientation participants to determine types of students attending orientation and students' concerns regarding transition process and advising/orientation expectations. Found variance among institutions in…

Four experiments examined exogenous orienting in 3.5-month-olds. Found that sensitivity to a small moving bar was lower when most of the red bars were in the visual field contra-lateral to this probe. The distribution of color within the visual field biased attention, making it either more or less likely that the infant detected a moving stimulus.…

This issue presents the schedule and other information for participants of the American Dental Education Association's 78th Annual Session and Exposition. The issue presents information such as conference features, exposition details, services, plenary session speakers, the daily program, vendors, meetings and workshops, and registration and hotel…

Systematically examined the content and components of college viewbooks/brochures. Compiled findings on: (1) physical components (e.g., photographs and slogans); (2) message content based on school characteristics such as size, type of school, enrollment, location, etc.; and (3) the type of image schools with different characteristics are seeking…

Discusses the growth of gay literature and gay consciousness as well as gay archives and gay biography. Describes historical and current literature about gays in libraries; and considers the role of the American Library Association, including the formation of the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgendered Task Force. (LRW)

Aspiring principals often have only a vague understanding of what the principalship entails--the loneliness, conflicts, dull routines, paperwork, and struggles to solve complex problems with limited resources. A recent study of southern principals showed that the induction practices (summer induction conferences and mentoring/internship programs)…

Discusses the need to enhance understanding of chemical safety in educational facilities that includes adequate staff training and drilling requirements. The question of what is considered proper training is addressed. (GR)

Examined whether gender differences in affiliative aspects of dyadic conversations occur because girls are more oriented than boys toward goals focused on others. Found that high-affiliation conversations and mutual-participation goals were more prevalent in female than in male and mixed- gender dyads. Mutual-participation goals mediated gender…

Reviews the original Conference on Library Orientation, later called the LOEX (Library Orientation and Exchange) Conference, and discusses the history of academic library instruction as influenced by those conferences. Highlights include change and continuity, and bibliographic instruction versus library orientation. (Author/LRW)

Describes Teacher Recruitment and Induction Project, a partnership between Southwest Texas State University College of Education and seven school districts, designed to prepare midcareer adults for teaching. Summarizes characteristics of strong midcareer teacher-preparation programs. (Contains 17 references.) (PKP)

This study investigated whether brain neural activity that accompanied the processing of previously learned map information was influenced by the modality in which the spatial parameters of the maps were originally learned. Participants learned a map by either viewing it directly or by reading an equivalent verbal description. Following learning,…

In this article, the author addresses the importance of having orientation for new librarians. During their crucial first few weeks on the job, the author claims, new librarians need as much hands-on, real-world training as they can get. If they are ushered to the information desk without an introduction to the staff interface of the catalog or to…