Article focused on new developments in the sociology of education. (Editor/RK)

This article presented some of the issues related to the professional responsibility and ethical conduct of consultant-evaluators of the Commission on Institutions of Higher Education. (Editor/RK)

When does the first period of the day meet as the last period of the day? When a school adopts the so-called rotating schedule. Author weighs the idea carefully. (Editor/RK)

Some of the most used, misused, and abused terms in contemporary education are the words "create,""creative," and "creativity." One way of understanding creativity is to reject the current practice of assuming that creative behavior is directly caused by some special kind of mental operation called "creative thinking." What can be accepted is the…

This paper pointed out assumptions underlying Feldman's definition of "evaluation", showed how he failed to specify criteria which would implement his model, suggested reasons for his choice of evaluation model, and pointed out a number of considerations for aesthetic evaluation in a classroom context. (Author/RK)

Explores whether it is possible to isolate some of the traditional cognitive controls in a group of seriously disturbed psychiatric patients then evaluates whether various diagnostic groups differ from each other and from normals with respect to these cognitive controls. (Author/RK)

By identifying evaluation activity in relation to one or more specified curriculum problems, it should be possible to make evaluation something other than an escape route from uncomfortable criticism or a mirror reflecting only those images that please ourselves. (Author)

Although the economic picture is a serious one for large publishers, it is a question of survival for small independent firms, according to speakers at a recent Stanford University conference on publishing. 250 participants at the conference spoke on their beliefs on the future of book publishing. (Editor/RK)

Reviews a "passionately intelligent manifesto" which puts forward proposals for a new kind of college. (Editor)

Investigated the influence of age and artistic inclination on the use of articulation and line quality in judging similarity and preference for simple human drawings. Children aged 4, 5, 10, and 13 years revealed articulation to be the primary criterion in similarity judgments. Preference patterns differed somewhat by age. (SKC)

Examines ways in which young children's decision making is affected by decision reversibility and decision importance. Results suggest that even young children are affected by manipulations of the decision situation, and that basic decision processes develop rapidly with age. (SKC)

The reflective judgment stages of 25 college students were compared at college entry and four years later, and significant gains were found in stage scores. (Author)

Problems arise when creativity is viewed in terms of personality or cognitive traits considered apart from products produced. The encouragement of high level achievement within particular disciplines and subject matter is suggested to develop creativity. (DF)

Uses the balance scale task to assess the development of compensation across versions of the task. Shows that fully reversible thinking may not be typical even in college students; many subjects used the compensation operation inconsistently. Preschoolers tended to use the given information in a way that was opposite to that required for correct…