Directors of college recruiting for Fortune 1000 corporations were surveyed regarding a broad set of college recruiting practices and college recruiting effectiveness measures. Descriptive results suggest that most college recruiting programs diverge from normative prescriptions. Stepwise regression revealed several statistically significant…

Provides a guide for selecting/evaluating textbooks for courses on marriage and family topics. Applies these guidelines to 13 introductory level textbooks published between 1984 and 1986. (JDH)

Emphasizes program location as an important component of the marketing plan for continuing education. Also discusses relations among program location and quality, costs, supportive services, and economies of scale. (CH)

Urges employers to professionalize their recruiting efforts in order to achieve more effective hiring, training, and evaluation of their future managers. (JAC)

Compares several instruments of potential usefulness in assessment of anxiety and depression among pain patients (N=34). Results showed that the SCL-90-R appeared to offer the best combination of relevant data and efficient assessment. However, significant intercorrelations among SCL-90-R subscales suggest a unitary factor structure. (NRB)

Presents the rationale for selecting topics to be covered in a special issue of "Educational Administration Quarterly" devoted to research methodology in educational administration. Provides a normative definition of the field of inquiry called "school administration," and describes how the articles published in the issue relate to the normative…

Two ideas for helping in the selection of school reading materials include an annual Reading Exposition and Materials Fair, and developing a checklist for judging material. A sample checklist is provided. (MD)

The search process for a college president has become a complicated affairs. The vicissitudes of the search process not only exhaust search committee members but also deplete the pool of good candidates. Selection criteria, confidentiality and disclosure, and Sunshine searches are discussed. (Author/MLW)

Developing leadership potential is a new challenge to educational organizations as the number of women and minorities increases. The author provides a model assessment instrument that includes scales for evaluation, observation, and personalized training opportunities. (MD)

Provides guidelines for evaluation in textbook selection. (MD)

Using short-term pilot programs to evaluate textbooks can lead to unreliable results and interfere with effective education. Alternative methods for evaluating textbook-based programs include obtaining documented analyses of competitors' products from sales agents, visiting districts using programs being considered, and examining publishers' own…

Examines indirect parental influence on mate choice of Hawaiian brides (N=3,814) and grooms (N=3,357), all of whom married into the native group of their parents. Results indicated that mate choice is more influenced by the opposite-sex parent and in general more influenced by mothers than by fathers. (LLL)

Presents factors crucial to the success of the combination classroom: planning, teacher selection, student selection, parent support, and schoolwide support. (MD)

This article examines some of the values that might be considered in a selection situation within the context of a decision theoretic model also described here. Several alternate expressions of fair selection are suggested in the form of utility statements in which these values can be understood and compared. (Author/DEP)