Presents six suggestions that may help a board control the costs of medical insurance coverage for employees. (IRT)

Guidelines to reduce the preparation time for talks advocating various specialized types of education; otherwise known as 28 tips on how to sell whatever is the latest thing. (Author/MLF)

Describes how a teacher can make an overhead projector table, which makes the projector less likely to block students' view or slide off the desk. (CMV)

Lists 35 sources of clip art (reproducible copyright-free illustrations). Each entry includes ordering information and a brief annotation. Suggestions for the use of clip art are also provided. (MES)

Explains the purpose of book reviews and gives guidelines and criteria for reviewing, using published examples. Suggests ways to develop a critical perspective. (SK)

Presents Guidelines for the Career Counselling of Girls and Women, drafted by a Collaborative Action Committee and endorsed by Canada's provincial Ministers Responsible for the Status of Women and Ministers with Labour Market Responsibilities. Presents guidelines as blueprints for consideration and action of counseling profession at all levels,…

Examines some of the new equipment, chemicals, and procedures in floor care to help educational facility managers develop floor care programs and improve performance. Trends include more mechanization, higher concentrations and environmentally preferable products for cleaning, and the use of written cleaning procedures. (GR)

Examines how choice of commercial swimming-pool filtration systems is driven by the project-specific needs of the pools. Also highlighted are definitions of specific terms used when discussing filtration systems. Questions that pool designers can answer to make filtration-system purchasing decisions are listed. (GR)

Discusses some of the emerging constructivist instructional design models and suggest three guidelines for instructional design that are based on an interpretivist philosophy of science and constructivist theories of learning. Explains recursive (iterative) non-linear design, reflective design, and participatory design. (Contains 72 references.)…

Reviews new types of fluorescent lamp and electronic ballasts and their associated starting methods to explain the benefits of programmed start ballasts in today's lighting applications. Advice on when it is time to make a lighting retrofit is highlighted. (GR)

One of the most common findings from health services research is a failure to routinely translate research findings into daily practice. Previous systematic reviews of strategies to promote the uptake of research findings suffered from a range of methodologic problems that have been addressed in a more recent systematic review of guideline…

This essay examines calls for methodological eclecticism based on the "compatibility thesis," arguing that they fail to take seriously the assumptions of method and, in so doing, fail to provide a methodological perspective that adequately incorporates the centrally important task of critically examining the theoretical background of methods and…

Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) may be an effective treatment for adolescents with severe mood disorders and other Axis I psychiatric disorders when more conservative treatments have been unsuccessful. ECT may be considered when there is a lack of response to two or more trials of pharmacotherapy or when the severity of symptoms precludes waiting…

A methodology to develop an easy-to-use toolkit for the preliminary design of high performance schools in hot and humid climates was presented. The toolkit proposed in this research will allow decision makers without simulation knowledge easily to evaluate accurately energy efficient measures for K-5 schools, which would contribute to the…