The study examined the relationship between achievement motivation and agricultural behavior among Palestinians in the Jordan Valley and in the village of Dabburiyah. (NQ)

Students are still enthralled with mental arithmetic, author reported in answer to a question from a reader. She then answered other questions sent to her in her capacity as Instructor's mathematics consultant. (Editor/RK)

Anthropological methodology suggests there may be two difficulties with utilizing evaluations over and above the many outlined in several generations of evaluation utilization literature. The first - "going native" - arises when the evaluator has consciously adopted the value and belief system of those in the program he or she is…

The spread of testing to its present near-universal status in American education is ascribed in part to the fact that tests have been found generally superior to suggested alternative ways of obtaining information about human behavior. Where alternative methods are used, it is from necessity rather than choice: there are important human…