A model demonstrating how performance incentives may encourage cream skimming (selecting participants with a high likelihood of success) was applied to data from 16 Job Training Partnership Act training centers. Short-term performance measures were weakly and perversely related to long-term impacts, but efficiency gains/losses from skimming were…

Describes trends in school furniture design, including emphasis on ergonomics, mobility, accommodation of technology, and the use of private sector providers to plan and implement the furniture, fixtures, and equipment portion of school construction budgets. (EV)

Examines arguments as to whether, how, and to what extent children's and adolescent literature is becoming postmodern. Suggests young adult literature has fully embraced the postmodern mode. Discusses three young adult novels that use postmodernist ideas and techniques: Sharon Creech's "Walk Two Moons," Louis Sachar's "Holes,"…

Examines, evaluates, and organizes a wide variety of knowledge management software tools by examining the literature related to the selection and evaluation of knowledge management tools. (Author/SLD)

Describes a comprehensive computer software selection and evaluation process, including documenting district needs, evaluating software packages, weighing the alternatives, and making the purchase. (PKP)

Notes that a middle ground of accommodation offers to settle the impasse in the debate over revising the literary canon. Discusses cross-gender reading--the pairing or clustering of a text in the canon with one outside the canon with similar structures and themes. (RS)

This note shows that the formula suggested by N. D. Bryant and S. Gokhale (1972) for correcting indirectly restricted correlations when no information is available on the third (directly restricted) variable is accurate only in one special instance. A more general correction formula is illustrated. (SLD)

Serves as introduction and background for remaining papers in this issue which describe major pieces of Army's Selection and Classification Project (Project A). Outlines principal objectives, methodology, and research design of Project A. Identifies overall objective of the project: to generate instrumentation and validity information database…

Describes events that led up to the decision to create a Request for Proposals for the Army's Selection and Classification Project (Project A) and considers the conditions that made it possible. Also discusses the conditions that seem necessary to maintain such a project over the course of its life cycle. (Author/NB)

Defines goal of criterion development in Army's Project A as construction of multiple measures of major components of job performance such that total performance domain for representative sample of population of Army entry-level enlisted positions was covered. Describes major steps in job analyses, content sampling, instrument construction, and…

Reviews poetry anthologies published in the 1980s for both secondary and elementary levels. Focuses on how anthologies are structured and which poets are included. (MM)

Reports results of a study to determine if education, in general, and factors related to vocational education, in particular, were considered in location decisions in a southern state. Analyzes data collected through on-site interviews with chief executive officers of 25 plants chosen randomly from results of a computer-assisted sort procedure.…

Discusses several statistical and substantive criteria that can be used to choose between parametric and nonparametric tests. Presents a non-parametric test capable of testing a number of statistical hypotheses using existing computer packages. Provides recommendations encouraging researchers to routinely use nonparametric tests in their data…

Argues against providing children only with reading materials which offer happy endings. Argues for literature which depicts life as both happy and sad, difficult and joyful. (RAE)

Discusses the challenge faced by career planning, placement, and recruitment professionals as they try to match the right person and the right job. Different career patterns are identified and five distinct groups of career-oriented persons are discussed in terms of what they value: getting ahead, getting secure, getting free, getting high, and…