The terms "outcome" and "impact" are ubiquitous in evaluation discourse. However, there are many competing definitions that lack clarity and consistency and sometimes represent fundamentally different meanings. This leads to profound confusion, undermines efforts to improve learning and accountability, and represents a…

In an increasingly complex and competitive employment environment, organizations such as the National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE), the World Economic Forum, and the Partnership for 21st Century Skills have prioritized major skills, also known as career readiness competencies, that position recent college graduates to successfully…

A review of and commentary on papers by Milton E. Rosenbaum, Jose Barchilon, Leon Jakobovits, and Frank Barron presented at Conference on the Creative Process and Composition (Colorado Springs, Colorado, November 3-6, 1968) sponsored by the National Council of Teachers of English. (Editor/RD)

Discusses the assignment of status lables (colloquial, illiterate, popular, slang) to indicate the degree of acceptability of a particular word. Article is part of Lexicography and Dialect Geography, Festgabe for Hans Kurath''. (DD)

A discussion of dictionaries and their use for second language (L2) learning suggests that lack of computerized modern language corpora can adversely affect bilingual dictionaries, commonly used by L2 learners, and shows how use of such corpora has benefitted two contemporary monolingual L2 learner dictionaries (1995 editions of the Longman…

This volume of the 27th International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education Conference includes the following research reports: (1) Improving Decimal Number Conception by Transfer from Fractions to Decimals (Irita Peled and Juhaina Awawdy Shahbari); (2) The Development of Student Teachers' Efficacy Beliefs in Mathematics during…