Attempts to evaluate the pragmatist's assertion concerning truth by evaluating the pragmatist's interpretation of the nature of consciousness, experience, and the truth-essence. (Author/RK)

Discusses the types of tables necessary for understanding the factors which influence the flow and structure of international news. (MH)

Selecting the architect is one of the keys to a successful school building project. Some general standards for evaluating architects can be applied in most situations. (Author/MLF)

The role of cognitive functions in three different valuing processes are identified and related to the development of moral autonomy. (GW)

A review of the literature was conducted to investigate how researchers have identified expert teachers. Each of the 29 studies used selection criteria that fell into one or more of the following market categories: (1) years of experience; (2) social recognition; (3) professional or social group membership; and (4) other performance-based…

How early is too early? As testing has grown more widespread in recent decades, important issues have arisen concerning how to ensure that early childhood testing is used appropriately and with positive educational benefits. Actually, this kind of testing has been happening for a long time. Testing young children became a frequent practice when…

After passage of Proposition 209, the University of California began searching for race-neutral admissions criteria that would allow it to minimize drops in enrollment of under represented minorities. Concern for under represented minorities led to several changes in admissions policies, most notably the introduction of comprehensive or holistic…

The increased use of qualitative research methods has spurred interest in developing formal standards for assessing its validity. These standards, however, fall short if they do not include public disclosure of methods as a criterion. The researcher must be accountable in documenting the actions associated with establishing internal validity…

This paper investigates measurement issues related to elements of the Internet and calls for a standardized measuring scheme to resolve the problem of the measurement. The dilemmas in measuring the elements of the Internet are identified, and previous studies are reviewed. Elements of the Internet are categorized into population, usage, protocol…

The proposed quality assurance framework for higher education in Australia will, for the first time since the early 1990s, introduce a process of external quality monitoring through the auspices of the Australian Universities Quality Agency. There is little research that evaluates the impact of external monitoring on the experiences of staff,…

This manual for the Montana public library recognition program for library staff members, trustees, and volunteers includes the following sections: (1) goals of the recognition program; (2) criteria for recognition; (3) categories for recognition, including criteria for library staff members, trustees, and volunteers; (4) the recognition program…

This guide to effective teacher evaluation is organized around the core issues of professional standards, a guide for applying the Joint Committee's "Standards," 10 alternative models for the evaluation of teacher performance, and an analysis of these 10 models. The chapters are: (1) "Historical Perspectives of Teacher Evaluation"; (2) "Standards…

Test validity refers to the degree to which the inferences based on test scores are meaningful, useful, and appropriate. Thus, test validity is a characteristic of a test when it is administered to a particular population. This article introduces the modern concepts of validity advanced by S. Messick (1989, 1996, 1996). Traditionally, the means of…

Rather than the traditional way of research influencing classroom instruction, with Performance Based Teacher Education in effect, instruction can present research with categories of behavior that are concrete examples of what teachers do in actual classrooms. (JA)

Designing and administering an incentive compensation plan is one of the most difficult tasks that corporate personnel executives face today. A rudimentary framework for guiding management's thinking in this area is presented here, together with some recent findings on actual incentive compensation practices in eleven large, diversified firms.…