The authors present choral contest/music festival performance tips which they have gleaned from adjudication sheets, judges' notes, and directors' comments. They include ideas on such topics as intonation, musical selections, rehearsal, balance, and staging. (SJL)

Illustrates the difficulties viewers have distinguishing between the various levels of television reality: partial reality, fictionalized reality, docudramas, adaptations, and teleplays. (HTH)

Briefly outlines the most significant provisions of the federal Uniform Guidelines on Employee Selection Procedures and suggests a practical, responsive course of action for employers. (Author/IRT)

Focuses on a single item of the feminist agenda--how to desex our sexist vocabulary. (Author/RK)

Secondary school administrators are increasingly being charged with the responsibility for effectively evaluating their personnel, educational programs, and services. The evaluation conference, if carefully planned and effectively conducted, can be of great benefit to the staff, the school, and the students. (Editor)

The intent of this paper is to present a brief overview of the type of information that might be included in the applied learning technologist certificate program. (Author)

In a field trial addressing revisions to autism criteria in the fourth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM-IV), information on 977 cases (454 with autism, 240 with "autistic-like" conditions, and 283 with nonpervasive developmental disabilities disorders) was rated. DSM-IV criteria were compared with the International…

Studied 44 academic departments judged by provosts to be engaged in effective curriculum planning to identify practices of continuous curriculum planning. Identifies 4 criteria and 20 indicators for assessing continuous program planning in a department. (SLD)

Discusses library consultants and offers a step-by-step plan for selecting a consultant who meets a library's specific needs. Topics include setting criteria and the type of consultant needed; turnaround time; Request for Proposal or Request for Qualifications; and building consensus between staff, management, and the consultant. (LRW)

A job standard contains criteria for performing a task in actual work conditions. A training standard takes into consideration the training conditions (resources, equipment, instructor) and may be less rigorous. Trainers should understand the difference and know when to use each. (SK)

Presents 13 criteria counselors can use to evaluate computer-assisted career guidance systems, in three categories: occupational database, career decision-making process, and effectiveness of computerized interaction. Suggests how evaluation data can be used to select systems, increase their effective use, and provide feedback to developers. (SK)

Summarizes 49 published reports of success for organizational change, representing over 40,000 organizations. Offers comments on criteria used to measure the success of each type of change and considers vested interests of people reporting the research, age of data versus current practice, research methodology, relevance of measures or standards,…

This chapter considers the limitations of traditional faculty assessment systems in the context of Boyers' four domains of scholarship and suggests a new organizing template for realigning assessment systems to accommodate work in all four domains. (EV)

Examines the selection criteria and admission policies of university-based master's-degree-level principal preparation programs. Finds selection criteria largely based on standardized test scores, undergraduate grade-point average, and letters of recommendations. Also finds very limited use of personal interviews and heavy use of conditional…

Discussion of electronic marketplaces focuses on a content analysis of research and practitioner articles that evaluated issues that prospective participants, seeking to purchase goods and services online, need to address in their selection process. Proposes a framework to support electronic marketplace decision making that includes internal…