Discusses a plan to evaluate student performance in the public schools of Mississippi. The plan is concerned with needs, goals and priorities, objectives, implementation, and evaluation. (Author/IRT)

Describes a study of graduate students at West Virginia University that examined the effects of Internet instruction on the attitudes of learners toward a new innovation before, during, and after the instruction. Responses from the stages of concern instrument are discussed, and results of regressions are described in appendices. (Author/LRW)

Notes Modell's examination of complexities of adoption from the perspectives of birthparents, adoptive parents, and adoptees, using lenses of kinship theory and symbolism, particularly blood as the central symbol of kinship in western cultures. Argues that as an anthropological study, Modell's work does not explicitly draw implications for…

Focuses on the aims and achievements of the Romanian Orphanage Trust. Describes the trust's attempts to develop alternatives to residential care, including moving away from directly providing and managing services for children and families toward stimulating and helping the growth of Romanian-led and managed institutions. Concludes that adoption…

Describes a methodology of behavior genetics in the context of twin and sibling/adoption design. This model was applied to cross-sectional data on cognitive development throughout the lifespan. Results from a twin and adoption study of general intelligence are presented to illustrate the use of the basic behavior genetic model in studying causes…

Examined effects on 74 adopters of participation in a court contest of adoption orders. Also explored effects of the nature of the hearings on availability of information and well-being of adopters. Found that the adversarial process did not lead to minimal levels of postadoption contact between biological and adoptive parents but was still…

Florida Cooperative Extension Service educators (n=261) completed the Computing Concerns Questionnaire. Analysis of the variability in computer-use mean scores using the Concerns Based Adoption Model identified the influence of informational, personal, and consequence concerns on computer use. Ways to reduce these concerns in training were…

Notes that adoption agencies have developed few specific policies on the issue of lesbian and gay adoption. Provides an overview of key considerations about homosexual adopters, including beliefs and values of agency professionals, the legal and social ramifications of adoption into a relationship not based on marriage, and possible consequences…

Qualitative data were collected during interviews with adoptive parents involved in face-to-face contact arrangement with birth relatives. Ratings of empathy for birth relatives and empathy for adopted child were developed. Findings indicated that empathic, understanding adopters were more likely than others to maintain or increase face-to-face…

Although the personality traits of archivists make them resistant to adopting marketing strategies, changes in the archival environment and information require that reference archivists understand and use concepts of marketing to advance archival services. Discusses changes in archival service, concepts of marketing: customer-orientation,…

Sketches the status quo and possible starting points for the adoption of neuro-scientific findings by educational science. Describes the latest developments in U.S. research. Discusses the adoption of these points by German educational science. Outlines the possibilities and limits of an interdisciplinary discourse. (CAJ)

Discussion of cultural influences on new technologies focuses on an analysis of full-service national Web portals from different countries that investigated whether the adoption of new technologies resulted in cultural convergence or divergence. Results showed differences in appearance and features offered that can be attributed to cultural…

Employee surveys before and 9 and 32 months after total quality management (TQM) implementation (n=186, 166, 118) identified three individual characteristics that collectively explained the variance in and better predicted TQM adoption: organizational commitment, trust in colleagues, and importance of higher-order needs for achievement and…

A research review identified four factors other than knowledge that influence decisions regarding healthful behaviors: perceptions of risks, perceptions of self, physical and social environment, and perceptions of costs and benefits of recommended behavior. Findings were used to develop guidelines for messages and programs designed to encourage…

Examined the school competence of internationally adopted children from Colombia and Korea and a matched sample of Norwegian-born children. Found that adopted children had lower school performance than Norwegian-born children. Most of the disparity was explained by adopted children's language skills and high frequency of hyperactive behavior.…