For more than twenty years, the Richmond, Virginia Public Schools' program for gifted students has conducted an interscholastic competition similar to the nationally known competition, Destination Imagination. In the featured contest of this yearly event, teams of five students present solutions to engineering problems that they have worked on for…

This investigation attempted to determine to what degree children will elect a school task because they are told that they have done well at it. (KM)

A total of 73 children seven to eight years of age were videotaped as they interacted with a sibling in cooperative, competitive, and neutral situations. It was concluded that children's experience of the sibling relationship varies systematically with sibling status. (Author/RH)

Olympics of the Mind, designed for highly creative K through 12 students, uses the basic elements (defined population, identification procedures, teacher training, student instruction, and problem evaluation) of a varsity sports model. (SB)

Game-playing has become a more generalized phenomenon than ever, entering into public recreation, school programs, and commercial promotional efforts. Games require competitive interaction between two or more individuals, making game-playing useful in clinical therapy and opening games to technological innovation. The latest such innovation is the…

Providing recognition and incentives through competition helps to motivate students. Ideally, competitions encourage students to develop competencies required of skilled workers. Well-run vocational student organization chapters can use competitions to provide incentives that will attract and hold students in training programs. (Author)

Explains the extent to which the innovativeness of banks (as measured by the adoption of credit cards and computers) is affected by competition, growth, size, and departmentalization. Notes that size and growth are more significantly related to innovation than are departmentalization and competition. (SB)

Agrees with James Coleman's premise that American education is largely based on four concepts, but disagrees with Coleman's assertion that these concepts should be discarded. States that the imperative within the public schools may be the provision of increased opportunities and options. (WD)

Argues for the continuation of competitive drama programs on the grounds that competition increases quality, and success fosters enthusiasm and support from students and community alike. (JMF)

Surveys court rulings on "piracy," or misappropriation, of advertising; concludes that the courts have refused to give advertising the same protection from piracy that they have afforded news material. (GT)

An Olympic-type event for people over the age of 55 is described. (JD)

Examines the relationships between book publishers and distributors and their effects on the entrance of new publishers, distributors and authors into the competition. (JMF)

Discusses how magazines differ in the types of information they provide and the characteristics of the audience they reach. (JMF)

Four general classroom reward structures were identified (individual reward contingencies, group reward contingencies, individual competition and group competition) and studies comparing their effectiveness in strengthening the independent academic performance of students were reviewed. The most striking finding was the consistent superiority of…

Examines the trend in outsourcing information services and suggests it threatens the survival of corporate libraries. Topics include changes in the competitive corporate environment; characteristics of outsourceable services; managing change; redesigning the corporate librarian's role; and implications for redesigning corporate information…