This study examined undergraduate information technology (IT) students' (N = 122) level of ethical reasoning and decision making at a Midwestern university. The purpose was to determine whether IT students' level of ethical reasoning provided information about the degree of their ethical decision making. The Defining Issues Test-2 (DIT-2) was used…

A cosmopolitan ethic invites both an appreciation of the rich diversity of values, traditions and ways of life "and" a commitment to broad, universal principles of human rights that can secure the flourishing of that diversity. Despite the tension between universalism and particularism inherent in this outlook, it has received much…

The use of intuition in educational decisions disposes educators to emotional arousal and biases. An excessively methodical approach is also criticized. This study tested a decision-making procedure, the Simple Decision Process (SDP), that integrates both approaches. One hundred and seventy four teachers studied a number of dilemmas (i.e.,…

This article is the third and final in a series prepared originally for AACRAO's Fifteenth Annual Strategic Enrollment Management Conference (SEM XV). Through this series, David Kalsbeek introduces a four-fold typology for differentiating institutional approaches to SEM. In this final reflection, he suggests that grounding this typology in Jungian…

The implications of the concept of fairness, to the level of the day-to-day business of the educational evaluator is explored. Section 2 presents a brief critical examination of the notion of objectivity in evaluation, and introduces the concept of fairness as an alternative focus for qualitative evaluation. In Section 3, there is a discussion of…

The Using Evaluation Data Form (UEDF) represents a psychological lever for getting a program's decision maker to consider major evaluation findings. The form may be used at any point of the evaluation process when sufficient data exist to support a finding deserving of action or reaction by the project staff. By local policy, it is required for…

Sixty mentally retarded adults judged whether exemplars were members of their respective categories and how representative they were. There was little evidence of a developmental relationship between typicality ratings given by retarded and nonretarded persons, but there were significant relationships among the groups for specific categories.…

Author commented on the textbook editions of this extremely ancient narrative about a hero who wanted to conquer death. He remarked on the difficulties in the text, differences between the 1964 and 1972 Sandars versions, similarities to Shelley, various literary strategies, and the persistent problem of translation itself. (Editor/RK)

Health educators are encouraged to analyze the assumptions they make about health, health education, and health educators. (JD)

The comments in this article appeared in the July 3, 1976, edition of the London "Daily Telegraph". The editors felt it appropriate to repeat them in this final "Bulletin" of the Bicentennial year. (Editor/RK)

Although Whitehead himself, in Process and Reality, appears to maintain a correspondence theory of truth, at various points he also appears to hold that truth is a function of the process under consideration. This suggestion is considered and developed beyond Whitehead?s few examples. It is suggested that such a theory could be extended further…

The UK educational assessment landscape is changing, characterised by attempts to create more flexible pathways through learning. This has led to attempts to formalise the comparative relationships between different general and vocational qualifications. The National Qualifications Framework (NQF), the Framework for Achievement and the Framework…

Vocational psychology has generated a number of concepts and assessment instruments considered to reflect ability self-concept (i.e., one's view of one's own abilities) relevant to career development. These concepts and measures often are categorized as either self efficacy beliefs or self-estimated (i.e., self-rated, self-evaluated) abilities.…

Previous research indicated that learners experience an illusion of competence during learning (termed foresight bias) because judgments of learning (JOLs) are made in the presence of information that will be absent at test. The authors examined the following 2 procedures for alleviating foresight bias: enhancing learners' sensitivity to…

The substance of this paper consists of discussion of relevant ideas from psycho-linguistic sources, suggestions derived from them for test material for purposes of analysis, the possible application of directed graph theory for analysing the total (T-Q) R unit, and a programme of analysis. (Author/RK)