This workbook of checklists is Attachment 2 to the document "Preparing Knowledge Linking Change Agents in Education: A Materials and Training Development Project," see ED 056 257, and should accompany Attachment 1, "A Guide to Innovation in Education." The nine checklists in the workbook are as follows: (1) Over-all Management of a Change Project;…

Major elements in a general process model for state and local planning for minority and disadvantaged education are discussed. These elements are: (1) needs assessment and public discussion of issues, (2) state goals and objectives for disadvantaged education, (3) local community college goals, objectives, and commitments, (4) provision of…

The original edition of the Department of Labor Interest Check List aims at helping students decide what kinds of work they would like and lists activities that are found in a broad range of industries and occupations. The student is advised to read each of approximately 175 items and indicate how he feels about the activity described by placing a…

Increasingly numerous and urgent requests for guidelines prompted the preparation of this publication listing the principal responsibilities of the chairman of a high school department of business and distributive education. An attempt is made to recommend criteria for small as well as large schools with realization that the scope of the…

The primary purpose of this annual directory is to help groups and individuals locate contemporary, American fiction writers. Information about more than 800 fiction writers and poets who also write fiction (organized geographically by state) includes current addresses, teaching preferences, and most recent publications. For authors who are…

This article discusses the U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare's regulations governing implementation of Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 and offers information and guidelines to aid school personnel in complying with the Title IX regulations. The author briefly describes the purpose of Title IX and presents examples of…

Directed toward media specialists and social studies teachers, this article outlines a selection process and evaluation criteria for print and nonprint social studies materials. (SJL)

Guidelines developed by the Professional Standards and Ethics Committee of the International Reading Association in May 1978 list attitudes, concepts, and skills necessary for seven different roles in reading instruction. (MKM)

Describes case studies undertaken in Australia on the lines suggested by the publication of the American Library Association's "Behavioral Requirements Analysis and Checklist," (BRAC) a compilation of competency-based job functions and test statements for school library personnel. (VT)

Pitfalls, snares, and other traps to avoid in planning a media facility. (Author)

A methodology for developing behavioral checklists to assess the techniques of performing a physical examination is described. Behavioral checklists seem to avoid the problems associated with rating scales since they require a minimum degree of subjective judgment on the part of observers. The results of validity and reliability studies are…

The first in a series of articles raises some questions and offers suggestions about a few of the basic concepts of media center planning. (Author/MLF)

In an informal poll of administrators and experienced board members, two short checklists were used. One consisted of trustee actions that might be considered invasions of administration, the other of presidential actions that might be thought to encroach upon trustee responsibility. (LBH)

The Minimum Essential Drug Information Checklist (MEDIC) was designed at Purdue University in response to a need for more structure in the approach to drug education in veterinary medicine. It covers: therapeutic goal, routes given, dose form, dose interval, duration of therapy, withdrawal time, cost, precautions, reactions, antidote, and therapy…

Examines the impact of pubertal status and timing, independent of chronological age, on the family relationships of adolescents in 204 families with a firstborn child between the ages of 10 and 15. Measures included adolescent and parental reports of closeness, confict, and autonomy and assessments of adolesents' pubertal status and pubertal…