Using welding as an example, this article describes how microelectronic devices, in conjunction with human supervision, help alleviate the problems of decreasing levels of productivity. (LRA)

A review of the scientific movement in education in the early twentieth century: its origins in the scientific management and industrial efficiency theories of Frederich Taylor; its effects on administrative organization and educational research; and the reactions of its critics, who favored the child-centered school. (SJL)

Reducing educational services, including community education activities, does not appear to be an effective method of reducing energy consumption. (Author)

Subjects asked to be brief tended to use messages concerned with the exchange of information more than messages dealing with rate of communication, judgments, and feedback. These subjects also used higher percentages of nouns and adjectives and lower percentages of pronouns, verbs, prepositions, and articles than unrestricted subjects. (Author/RL)

From a review of empirical research, a new theoretical synthesis of anxiety's effect on learning and memory is proposed: anxiety always reduces processing effectiveness, by generating task-irrelevant processing activities, but this will not impair performance efficiency if sufficient compensatory effort is expended. (SJL)

Examines the searching environment at Amoco Research Center as it affects the performance of online searching, regardless of the subject matter of the search itself. A comparison of general search strategies using various models is also presented. (CWM)

Explores some legal issues and principles relevant to university administrators' decision-making processes, focusing on three areas: discretion (i.e., level at which a decision is made); procedural fairness (when it is required, what it applies to, rules, and biases); and review of decisions. Emphasis is on the Australian context. (MSE)

Cyber Adviser software aids course planning by checking entrance requirements, automatically recommending courses, automatically designing a curriculum that can be manually modified, and automatically planning a student's course sequence for up to three years. Describes how the advising staff at Valencia Community College (FL) uses Cyber Adviser…

It is proposed that online searching of fee-based search services offers institutional advancement professionals an efficient and often cost-effective method for researching donor prospects. Strategies for streamlining in-house online searching and for using vendor services effectively are outlined, and a number of databases and other useful…

When teachers, building-level administrators, and district officials can communicate freely with one another through computers, districts become more powerful. An integrated approach to computer technology will result in improved efficiencies. (MLF)

Argues that all employees in today's global economy are facing educational challenges. Suggests that educational systems must adapt to economic conditions and that employers/companies must be educators. Claims that innovation, team work, and efficiency are required to meet this challenge. (CAJ)

The president of the Morrisville-Eaton, New York, School Board offers suggestions to keep board meetings focused and productive. (MLF)

Discussion of efficient communication in research and development focuses on the use and nonuse of relevant information. Highlights include information overload and efficiency; nonuse of relevant information as policy; two kinds of overload; and implications for information science. (33 references) (LRW)

Increasingly, colleges and universities are using procurement cards, which are credit cards with limited usage, for institutional faculty and staff to make small purchases without going through costly and inefficient purchasing channels. Some concerns include distribution of cards, increased liability, and monitoring of expenditures. (MSE)

Comparison of the Australian and British higher education systems recently converted from binary to unitary systems indicates increased emphasis on higher education as a national resource and efforts to enhance efficiency. The major changes made are outlined, similarities and differences are noted, and lessons learned from the change process are…