The paper reviews research on normally hearing students that has implications for understanding the motivation of hearing-impaired students, suggesting that classroom motivational orientation of students depends upon which orientation is rewarded and encouraged. This paper focuses on three orientations: autonomy, competition, and cooperation.…

The skills, equipment, and competition involved in intercollegiate riflery championships are described. Programs at National Collegiate Athletic Association-member colleges are cited. (MSE)

Suggests humanizing physics classes by incorporating class-wide, local, or national contests. Several examples of this approach are offered and discussed. (JN)

Discussion of successful integration of human relations into day-to-day life in organizations focuses on individual's need to deal with competition, power, and politics. A framework that provides a systematic way of viewing power and politics and the irrational side of organizations is given, and case studies illustrate framework components. (EJS)

Examines and suggests improvements in the broadcasting speech event (radio newscast reading) in forensic competition. (PD)

Discusses three ethical problems with the use of evidence by student finalists in the Persuasion Section of the 1981 National Forensic Association's "Individual Events Nationals": (1) fabrication of sources and data; (2) source deception; and (3) plagiarism. (PD)

Describes how public television and radio can be utilized to help students prepare for forensic competition. (PD)

This Policy Alert updates a 1999 report by Harold Hovey, State Spending for Higher Education in the Next Decade: The Battle to Sustain Current Support, and two earlier Policy Alerts: State Shortfalls Projected Despite Current Fiscal Prosperity (February 2000) and State Shortfalls Projected Throughout the Decade (February 2003), all available at…

Since the emergence of teacher unionization in the 1960s, the National Education Association (NEA) and American Federation of Teachers (AFT) have monopolized the market for teacher representation services. Competition against NEA/AFT would directly benefit teachers and indirectly benefit the school choice movement. This analysis argues that…

This document describes business plan competitions sponsored by universities. The idea began in the early 1980s at the University of Texas when Masters in Business Administration (MBA) students created a friendly competitive activity along the lines of the law schools Moot Court competition. Later the competition became national, and then…

When the concept of charter schools was first implemented in California in 1993, the goal was to allow the modification of existing public schools or the creation of wholly new ones that would be less rule-bound than traditional public schools but more accountable for student achievement. For some charter advocates, simply providing such…

The underlying theories of learning and performance are quite complex. This paper proposes a model that links the learning organization theory as a process with job satisfaction as a performance theory outcome. The literature reviewed considered three process levels of learning within the learning organization and three outcome levels of job…

The purpose of this paper is to explain how the Swedish citizen has developed his (or her) judgment concerning quality of life, attributable to real and simulated civilizations. It builds on a previous research report (B. Bierschenk, 1997) about three model societies that have been studied with the assumptions that: (1) competition implies…

Competition exists when vendors of a service are available to meet the demands of customers. In the education sector, parents and children are consumers, and schools and districts are the suppliers. Theoretically, more competition should translate into higher quality schooling and enhanced educational outcomes. This digest reviews the literature…

One of the most common parenting issues faced by families with multiple birth children is that of the dynamics involved in sibling cooperation and competition. This document compiles stories from the Mothers of Twins Club "Notebook" examining the issue of cooperation versus competition. The first story discusses the impact of the twin…