Evaluations occur within a political decision-making mileau, where multiple stakeholders are contending for limited funds. Given the subjective basis of empirical information, different conclusions or recommendations about a program may result from different ideological, theoretical, and disciplinary perspectives. The logic behind the…

Decision making processes among older adults were investigated within the context of grocery selection, using a stimulus array involving two product classes (bread and cheese) with 10 items per class. The sample (N=580) was stratified by sex, household status (living alone or with spouse), and age, employing three age groupings: 25-34 (young),…

This second edition of "Beyond the Wasteland" provides an updated review of broadcast criticism. It offers teachers information to sharpen their own critical capacities and help for exploring media criticism with their students. It also provides suggestions and contextual insights for the mass media researcher. The book is divided into…

Suggestions and learning activities to help secondary students learn social studies skills are contained in this document. Social studies skills make it possible for the learner to employ those intellectual processes necessary in obtaining or handling knowledge. Five selected skill development areas are discussed; each area contains a number of…

Doublespeak can be defined as language which is purposely ambiguous, deceptive, or evasive. If we want to promote integrity between act and word, we must teach by living out of the kind of consistency which we hope for in others. Functioning honestly in departmental and pedagogical as well as other personal dealings can be the most effective thing…

Two samples, the first consisting of 13 and 16-year-olds and adults, the second consisting of children from kindergarten, second and sixth grades, are interviewed to measure the cognitive processes used to evaluate the credibility of television content. Additional goals include measuring the relationship between the use of these cognitive…

Tasks graded in terms of fluency, flexibility, originality, and elaboration of responses were administered to fourth graders in order to identify relationships between these measures of creativity, intelligence, and evaluation skills. With intelligence controlled, the relationship between creative thinking scores and evaluation ability was near…

Among other things, a general education is the habit of questioning. It transcends the more narrow limitations of a specific discipline. A core curriculum needs to be prescribed that consists of a variety of special interdisciplinary courses or ones especially organized around unifying interdisciplinary problems. (SW)

This article discusses values education, with its emphases on personal assessment and enjoyment of those things that have an impact on the individual. (JD)

This article discusses the importance of emotions in human life and how emotions can be brought under rational assessment and evaluated in relation to worthwhile educational goals. (JD)

After a brief history of graduate education in the United States was presented, the advantages of graduate degrees and the problems in utilizing those degrees were discussed. (RK)

This article describes the work of the Faculty Resource Center at the University of Cincinnati and the programs it provides related to faculty development and discusses the need for examining organizational, interpersonal, and personal constraints on the behaviors of college faculty. (JD)

Special instructional improvement grant programs have been created on many college and university campuses to provide faculty members with the resources for designing and carrying out educational innovations in their courses. (JD)

Three studies explored children's adoption of cultural forms of representation. Investigated were (1) children's judgments from students' drawings about the age of the artist; (2) children's preferences for drawings and the extent preferences match teachers'; and (3) differences between drawings children produce for themselves and those they…

Investigated whether children in kindergarten and grades 2 and 4 applied one- or two-dimensional rules in rating areas of rectangles, triangles, and ellipses. A majority of subjects produced judgments consistent with one of the rules. The findings contradict Piaget's claim that young children are limited to one-dimensional judgments. (SKC)