The author reports results of an experiment designed to determine the types" of encoding behavior in the selection of evidence speakers make for persuasive messages. (Author/MS)

Studied arousal of anxiety, which supposedly accompanies high evaluation apprehension, in 250 college students. Results showed a cueing effect with high evaluation aprehension students rating photographs more positively than low evaluation apprehension students. Analysis of the anxiety scores failed to reveal any significant differences. (WAS)

Presents a flow chart for turning good ideas into complete proposals before proposing them. The process involves clarifying the idea and assessing its current practicality, value for the program, compatibility with policy, implications, costs, funding sources, and implementation time requirements. (PGD)

An evaluation design is seen to ensure the presence of certain qualities in an evaluation; values and valued qualities permeate the evaluation design. Mechanisms for evaluations (in-process reviews, follow-up studies, etc.) are dealt with and familiarity with financial, managerial, and ethical procedures are stressed in the evaluation design. (CE)

The philosophies of House and Rawls are examined as they apply to evaluation practices. It is argued that the relevance of philosophy to evaluation is its sharpening of the sensitivity and intuitions of evaluators to issues of justice, not its ability to justify method. (JMF)

Irate author, student, student teacher, free spirit, and interested observer (for 35 years) ruminates on the bad new days and compares them with the bad old ones. Editor's notes tend to agree with disgruntled writer. (Editor)

Discusses the problems of individuals encountering art, whether old or new, and suggests that through understanding audiences might arrive at the art gallery prepared to breast the general difficulties of novelty. (Author/RK)

The golden section is a proportion the aesthetic properties of which have been extolled since antiquity. The data from five experiments in which subjects made dichotomous judgements of acquaintances on bipolar dimensions (e.g. pleasant-unpleasant) were reported. (Editor)

This study of 20 children (ages 6-9) with autism found that the children were able to make a distinction between moral and conventional transgressions in their judgments, and that their level of ability on false belief tasks was not associated with the tendency to distinguish moral and conventional transgressions. (CR)

A course-integrated bibliographic instruction session was designed to develop skills in evaluating biomedical information sources. Students in small groups evaluated and ranked medical and nursing dictionaries and defended ratings to the class. (SK)

Children of 4 to 10 years of age were given 2 class inclusion tasks. Younger children's performance was inflated by guessing. Scores were higher in the marked task than in the unmarked task as a result of differing rates of inclusion logic. Children's verbal justifications closely approximated estimates of their true competence. (GLR)

A literature review examined these questions: How do workers make judgments about fairness? Why are workers concerned with organizational justice? and What is organizational justice? The relationship between two paradigms--reaction to events and appraisal of social entities--formed the basis of an integrative model of organizational justice.…

The prominent cognitive theories of probability judgment were primarily developed to explain cognitive biases rather than to account for the cognitive processes in probability judgment. In this article the authors compare 3 major theories of the processes and representations in probability judgment: the representativeness heuristic, implemented as…

Several studies have demonstrated that games have been effectively used as an instructional strategy to motivate and engage students. This paper presents the use of the process of game development as an instructional strategy to promote higher order thinking skills. An analysis of the various aspects of game development including graphics,…