This study describes the development of the Active Treatment Client Rights checklist (ATCR), which was designed to facilitate the assessment, monitoring, and implementation of readily observable client active treatment services for adults with developmental disabilities. The ATCR was found to be highly reliable, valid, and useful in enhancing…

Presents a technique for dividing the teaching/learning process into microcomponents to ease transition to self-direction. The component checklist includes assessing needs, setting goals, specifying content, pacing, selecting instructional methods, controlling the learning environment, promoting reflection, determining the instructor's role, and…

This study investigated the validity of having English-as-a-Second-Language test-takers select from a checklist the strategies they believe they use when answering multiple choice reading comprehension questions. Results suggest that the self-report checklist discussed above exercised to an unknown extent an instrument effect on the readers who…

Presents an evaluation method for written assignments in which students develop an evaluation checklist. (SR)

First and second graders (n=58) were assigned to experimental and control groups for behavior intervention program by matching for scores on Teacher's Report Form (TRF), ability, and achievement. Experimental subjects received classroom-based behavior intervention mediated by teachers. Pre- and postintervention TRFs showed significant…

A checklist/safety quiz from the National Fire Protection Association examines individual knowledge of how to escape if a home fire breaks out. The organization recommends that every household develop a fire escape plan and practice it at least twice a year. (SM)

To overcome limitations on nurses' teaching skills, staff shortages, and shorter hospitalizations, a patient education program uses varied methods (one-to-one, small group, videotape, telephone coaching) and aids (teaching standards, patient handbooks, skills checklists) to help nurses teach patients self-care techniques. (SK)

Presents a 35-item checklist of practical activities for school district compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). The checklist is based on ADA statutes, other civil rights legislation and litigation, as well as pertinent regulations and the legislative history of the act contained in the Congressional Record. (MLF)

School crises may be categorized as emergency situations, human-made crises, natural events, medical emergencies, and mechanical crises. Central to any successful crisis-management plan are onsite and district-level crisis response teams. Plans should specify staff responsibilities; provide for communication codes, devices, and procedures;…

A school board that initiates policies can ensure that these policies are consistent with their mission, goals, and other policies. This article supplies a 22-item checklist of questions developed by the Michigan Association of School Boards to help board members tackle the policymaking process, from origins to adoption and oversight. (MLH)

It is argued that the relative scoring method used to score the Ways of Coping Checklist introduces an artifact that confounds multivariate analyses and ignores the individual's general reactivity to the problem. Multivariate analysis is shown to suggest an intricate structural relationship between components of coping and depression. (SLD)

Howard Gardner's multiple-intelligences theory stresses that all humans possess the various intelligences (linguistic, logical-mathematical, spatial, bodily-kinesthetic, musical, interpersonal, intrapersonal, and naturalist) to differing degrees, and most people can attain adequate competency levels. This article provides a sample checklist for…

Discusses the Z39.50 standard (pertaining to client software) that provides information searching and retrieval from remote servers to offer a consistent user interface; reviews currently available client software; and provides a checklist for evaluating Z39.50 client software. (LRW)

Presents three ways to weave language assessment into everyday classroom operations: adapting traditional forums; checklists; and feedback circles (Author/VWL)

A curriculum implementation monitoring system should be relatively inexpensive, unburdensome for faculty, and improvement oriented; produce information to guide staff development; and refrain from covertly evaluating teachers. A self-assessment checklist should report teachers' perceptions about degree of implementation, difficulty level, and…