Presents guidelines for employee assessment sessions. Offers recommendations for future investigations of evaluation discussions and a bibliography. (PD)

Discusses the importance of establishing international standards and guidelines in the archival field and describes the work of international agencies in this respect. Fourteen references are included. (Author/RAA)

Offers an overview of ERIC resources that can assist in making a microcomputer purchase. (AEA)

Seventy-seven suggestions, some serious and some not so, are presented to help beat teacher burnout. (CT)

Offers guidelines for preparing and presenting papers at American Business Communication Association (ABCA) conferences. Topics covered include: (1) types of delivery, (2) extemporaneous speaking, and (3) manuscript speaking. (FL)

Offers guidelines on supervision of extracurricular activities, covering preparation for the activity and supervisors; duties and activities upon arriving at the activity; while the activity is ongoing; and when the activity is completed. (WD)

Presents 11 steps to take in choosing a consultant. (IRT)

Uses the results of interviews with 50 federal compliance officers to create an analytical framework that human resources managers can use to identify any areas of their affirmative action plan needing management attention and to establish some remedies considered effective by the officers. (Author/IRT)

Outlines a formal, specific, and structured method a board can use in evaluating a superintendent. (IRT)

Presents nine steps for game design, and discusses why particular formats were used in the design of five games: CONRAIL Railroad Deregulation, Montauk Exercise, Geothermal Energy, Simulated Nutrition System, and Human Settlement. (CMV)

Board members who want to keep educational quality high must define quality and then use the staff as a resource, reassess the educational program, and include teachers, administrators, and students in a continuing dialogue on the schools and how to improve them. (Author/IRT)

Addresses four questions concerning the use of instructional television (ITV): Is the use of ITV punishing to the user? Is a teacher rewarded for not using ITV? Does it make any difference to a teacher whether ITV is used? Are there obstacles that prevent a teacher from using ITV? (Author/IRT)

The author urges, among other consideration, that strikes be avoided when possible, that major decisions be made before the strike begins, that the district cultivate good relations with the media, and that unity among the board members be maintained. (IRT)

Outlines some principles which seem to be important both to bridging the gap between parent and teachers' expectations and enabling the whole area of parent-teacher relations to operate more effectively. (MP)

Instructions are given for a beginning project in mosaic. (SJL)