The "Outline/Check List for Inventory Pre-Planning, Preparation and Conduct," used at the Skyline College Bookstore, is presented. The guides include information on paperwork, merchandise preparation, a time table, year-end accounting, and inventory procedures. (JMD)

Strategies that may be used to evaluate and record the progress of students and ways of enlisting parents' aid and understanding of problems are discussed. (JD)

Presents a variety of media center evaluation tools reflecting a wide range of professional opinions concerning input into the evaluation process, and what aspects of the media program most clearly reveal its effectiveness. Most of the instruments are quantitative, although a few are moving into the difficult area of qualitative measurement. (CMV)

Provides a comprehensive checklist of practices and procedures that the Supreme Court has held to be mandatory, permissive, or prohibited for public school districts. The items are organized into three overlapping foci--the school district level, the employee level, and the student level. Cases decided through December 1977 are included.…

Thirty steps for a curriculum development process are given in the form of a checklist with action to be taken listed for each step to assure attention to all program components at the appropriate times. (MF)

Conservation projects to be considered before winter comes again. (MLF)

Discusses a method of evaluating results of child protective services which uses a comprehensive checklist of indicators of abuse and neglect. Also explains how the evaluation instrument was developed and explores its uses at the service delivery level, including its use as a diagnostic aid in quantifying family problems normally assessed…

A research checklist was submitted to 2664 regular classroom teachers in kindergarten through grade 12 in 13 Florida school districts to determine their individual perceptions of the behavioral status of their students. (IM)

Use of a child abuse case-finding checklist in the emergency department of a large children's hospital (Montreal, Canada) identified 39 (of 2,211 accident patients) for further evaluation of which 28 (1.3%) were presumed to be victims of abuse or neglect. Incidence of abuse was substantially lower than expected. (Author/DB)

This article asks and discusses 23 questions that can help schools determine how well they are accommodating the needs of single and working parents and their children in several areas: the organization and scheduling of activities, teacher sensitivity to family types, and support and counseling for parents and children. (PGD)

Draws on research in discourse analysis in an attempt to determine text authenticity through the authenticity of text types and to provide implications for classroom materials. An authenticity scale is provided for various conversational-text types. (SED)

Investigated the effects of presence or absence of a self-monitoring form and twice-weekly meetings with a psychologist on a third-grader's school work completion. Results indicated the physical presence of the recording device was necessary to influence completion of school assignments. Psychologist sessions without self-monitoring demonstrated…

Information is presented on the psychometric characteristics of the Aberrant Behavior Checklist, a measure of psychotropic drug effects. Internal consistency and test-retest reliability of the checklist appeared very good. Interrater reliability was generally in the moderate range. In general, validity was established for most Aberrant Behavior…

Presents an overview of library collection evaluation techniques described in the literature--list-checking, quantitative analysis, use studies, and subject specialist review--and offers suggestions to the librarian for the application of these methods in an art library. Twenty-five references are provided. (EJS)

A study to identify clinical procedures for which department chairpersons felt observational checklists would be useful is reported. A secondary purpose was to investigate aspects of the use of direct observation techniques for the assessment of clinical skills. (Author/MLW)