Article provided an evaluative checklist that might be of help in finding avenues of communication through the listening development of students and adults. (Author/RK)

Controversies regarding the validity of divergent findings may be irrelevant in some circumstances because of correlational anomalies. The present study illustrates such situations using sets of hypothetical data to demonstrate how several apparently conflicting findings can all be valid. (Author)

Adapted in part from the senior author's MA thesis (University of Illinois, 1966) and presented in part at the Annual Meetings of the Midwestern Psychological Association, May 1967.

Some of the most important evaluation questions cannot be answered through experimental research. The "assessment" of the St. Louis Leadership Program (SLLP), sponsored by the Danforth Foundations, is used as an illustration of a "connoisseur-based study" approach to evaluation. The project team, given limited time and funds, decided that it could…

Three types of explanation in evaluation are discussed: causal explanations, explanations of actions, and explanations of value judgments. The role and importance of each form is addressed, as are alternate approaches to providing such explanation. The concept of explanation is defined as anything said or done to help someone understand something.…

An American graduate student describes his experiences at Oxford University and how they enchanted his educational and social growth. (RK)

Confirms the hypothesis that young children can make relatively realistic judgements about future performance if their attention is directed to past performance information. Sixty four-year-olds predicted performance outcomes for themselves or for another child after a series of failures. Results depended on rewards and the salience of past…

Compares second-, fifth- and eighth-graders' reasoning about their relative ability and that of another child (who applied more or less effort) with their reasoning about the relative ability of two others (who differed in effort). Responses to specific questions may be more sensitive to situationally induced motivational influences than responses…

While some clarity might be obtained from pursuing the meaning of facts if there were no language or in terms of their positiveness or negativeness, the author decided to look at some ordinary-language uses of the word "fact" in three different constructions to see if some insight might be gained. (Author/RK)

Considers a dialogue between Carl Rogers and Martin Buber and its use both in distinguishing the concept teaching from the concept therapy as a general case and specifically in differentiating existential psychotherapy from Buber's theory of instruction. (Author/RK)

From a supertoy for the gifted to a musical sketchpad for the ordinary student--the computer is becoming an intriguing new learning tool. (Editor)

This handbook was developed to provide managers working with the National Science Foundation (NSF) with a basic guide for the evaluation of NSF's educational programs. It is aimed at people who need to learn more about what evaluation can do and how to do an evaluation rather than those who already have a solid base of experience in the field.…

Report on the results of an experiment conducted in various university-level linguistics and English courses on the choice between whoever'' and whomever'' in the sentence, The teacher gave a prize to whoever/whomever he thought was the best student.'' (RS)

Examples of nurses in ancient Greek literature--Euryclea in Homer's "Odyssey," Cilissa in Aeschylus'"Oresteia," and the nurse in Euripides'"Medea"--illustrate the personal commitment in judgment and the obligation of nurses to move from doubt and opinion toward knowledge and certitude. (SK)