The director of a recently completed curriculum development project describes the project's need for product criteria to serve as guidelines for materials development. The background and context for criteria development involved the need to reconceptualize and redesign the contents and methods of career exploration activities envisioned for junior…

The focus of this study was upon students who were academic "risks." The basic definition of "risk" was based on a cutoff of 620 in College Board verbal scholastic aptitude scores. A study was made of the past success of these risks, with the major purpose of finding new variables and methods which would assist admissions officers in the selection…

Criteria for judging a country's development in librarianship, information science and bibliography are set forth and applied to Iran. (JG)

The manual offers a source of variables of potential use as behavioral criteria in an evaluation program. Twenty-nine individual difference variables are included, and for each, a brief definition is provided. The measures used to assess the variables are described, and evaluation of the variables and pertinent references are listed. (Author)

Each confidential statement about a student teacher by his teacher supervisors should be written with one goal in mind, that of offering a candid assessment of a teacher candidate who is being considered for employment by a hiring official. Amidst the current trend toward pass/fail courses, these statements assume an even higher importance. There…

Identifies several problems inherent in developing valid and reliable evaluative criteria for group performances and suggests some practical ways for dealing with these problems. (MH)

Survey yields data on customer satisfaction with campus service departments. (Author/MLF)

A discussion of how the competence of instructional developers might be measured and evaluated. (HB)

An analysis of the legislation passed by California, Florida, Oregon, South Dakota, and Washington and the actions taken by the State education agencies in Hawaii and Virginia concerning procedures used to evaluate the performance of school personnel. (Author/MF)

How can the average educator who teaches online, without experience in evaluating emerging technologies, build on what is successful and modify what is not? Written for educators who feel ill-prepared when required to evaluate e-learning initiatives, "Evaluating e-Learning" offers step-by-step guidance for conducting an evaluation plan of…

The author examines whether education increases patience. Admission decisions in a public college in Mexico are determined through a lottery. He finds that applicants who were successful in the draw were more likely to study in the following years. He surveyed the applicants to this college almost two years after the admission decision was made…

The world of higher education is a world of sorting, selecting, and ranking--on both sides of the market. Colleges select students to recruit and then to admit; students choose where to apply and which offer to accept. The sorting process that gets the most attention is in the higher reaches of the market, where it is not too much to say that…

Teacher preparation for the 21st century deserves a front-end approach to addressing the use of technology in the learning environment. To study the effect of instructing with technology, pedagogy, and content knowledge (TPACK), teachers were asked to apply pedagogical, mathematical, and cognitive fidelity to technology used in an instructional…

Academics are expected to write for publication and meet publication targets in research assessment processes. These targets are set by national bodies and institutions, and they can be daunting for academics at the start of a research career. This article reports on an intervention designed to address this issue, writer's retreat, where academics…