Author endeavored to elucidate the hurdles, challenges, and rewards of being a woman surgeon. (Author/RK)

Improvement in public management by objectives can be expected when more attention is devoted to the formulation of strategic objectives for governmental units and programs. (Available from Public Personnel Management, Room 240, 1313 East 60th Street, Chicago, IL 60637; $15.00 annually, $3.00 single copy.) (IRT)

Argues that systematic empirical assessment of organizational development (OD) interventions is important and can have benefits both for subject organizations and organizational researchers. Discusses suggested criteria for effective assessment of OD interventions. (For availability see EA 507 198.) (JG)

This article challenges the value of the Carnegie Unit and proposes an alternative. The basic orientation for both the challenge and alternative is derived from the concept of "quality control." (Editor)

Physical education teaches basic life principles as well as motor skills that have long-lasting benefits. Yet, say these authors, it is usually the first curricular area to suffer school budget cuts. Criteria for a good physical education program are described with the implication that if the subject is properly taught it is more difficult to…

Notes that many reports on children's books employ the word "imaginative" or "imagination," but few relate it to fantasy, suggesting that it was not the genre that determined this label, but rather the talent, insight, and craft with which the author shaped the material. (HOD)

Examines several activities that directly influence the future of special educational programs in higher education and presents problems that must be resolved if significant expansion of special educational programs is to be achieved. Funding, staffing, and accountability are discussed in detail and other crucial areas are reviewed. (Author)

Analyzes several poems to show that many poems for children reflect faulty techniques, concepts, language usage, rhythms, rhymes, and imagery; argues that no poem is good enough for children that is not good enough for adults. (GT)

A skill-testing program, similar to the scoring system used in competitive gymnastics, is described for use in elementary physical education classes. (MM)

This paper discusses some ways a psychologist carrying out evaluation within a school system can design evaluation studies to maximize the usefulness of the results. A format and procedure for designs based on providing information for decision making are presented. Examples of the experiences of one internal office are discussed. (Author)

Factors to be considered in selecting children's films are discussed, and guidelines are provided for film evaluation and for the establishment of film programs in libraries. Some examples of multimedia theme programs combining stories with films are given. (MBR)

Suggests that a possible reason for receiver-operating characteristics (ROC) curves having a slope other than unity when plotted on Normal-deviate axes is that the dichotomy into relevant and nonrelevant items is artificial, and that there is really a bivariate distribution of objective relevance and relevance as assessed by the information…

Fifteen models for evaluating the principal are presented and the strengths and weaknesses of their components are analyzed. (Author/MLF)

Content analysis of articles appearing in "Rural Sociology" from 1965 to 1976 shows that the discipline is characterized by theoretical closure and methodological monism, suggesting a crisis of discipline stasis. (Author/KR)

This article discusses the involvement of the accreditation organization, the regulatory agencies, the consensus standards-writing organizations, and the laboratory community in the establishment of accreditation programs. (BB)