Investigates the relative effectiveness of three types of selectors (graduate students, principals, and college faculty) in selecting new graduate students for an educational administration program. Examines the usefulness of various pieces of information in predicting success both in the graduate program and in later administrative practice.…

A project explored the process by which recruiters used information to make decisions on whom to interview. Data were collected from recruiters seeking candidates in electrical engineering, computer science, business, accounting, and social sciences/liberal arts, including communications. Recruiters relied heavily on major grade point average…

Evidence from Ghana is presented to show the possibility of downward mobility of elite children through lack of success in a selective educational system and the ability of children from lower status homes to use this system to overcome their initial disadvantages. (Author)

With the reduced demand for teachers, some teacher training colleges have implemented a competetive admissions program. As a means of assisting counselors, Likert-type scales were developed to measure the reaction of pre-education students to the admission process. Results indicate such scales can successfully measure student's reaction to this…

The attitudes reported support the viability of the preselection process and conform with attitudes held by campus interviewers and prospective employers. (Author)

Three different methods for selecting students for admission to higher education institutions are discussed and compared. The predictive system of selection, based on qualitative judgments, makes use of conventional data and also subjective judgments. The other two methods, the proportional system of selection and the predictive system of…

Describes the following features of the Cutler Playwrights Festival: (1) the contest, which involves publicity and choosing a play; (2) the workshop, in which the play's content, expert, release time, size, and follow-up are decided; and (3) the production, which determines the cast and crew and the final performance. (JD)

The author discusses the field of continuing professional education (CPE), emphasizing five topics: (1) development of CPE as a force in contemporary education, (2) competition, (3) technology's impact on the professions, (4) the role of universities, and (5) possible futures. (CH)

Competition exists when vendors of a service are available to meet the demands of customers. In the education sector, parents and children are consumers, and schools and districts are the suppliers. Theoretically, more competition should translate into higher quality schooling and enhanced educational outcomes. This digest reviews the literature…

Discusses the results of a sixteen year survey of collegiate and professional basketball in terms of several aspects of the athletic world alleged to be racially biased-recruitment policies, the assignment of playing positions, performance expectations, and rewards. (Author/JM)

In order to obtain a publishing contract, an author must usually submit a prospectus of the text which includes a description of the proposed text, an annotated table of contents, and sample chapters. (JN)

N.O. Schiller and A. Caramazza (2003) and A. Costa, D. Kovacic, E. Fedorenko, and A. Caramazza (2003) have argued that the processing of freestanding gender-marked morphemes (e.g., determiners) and bound gender-marked morphemes (e.g., adjective suffixes) during syntactic encoding in speech production follows distinct principles, with only…

Recent research illustrates the increasingly important role of the school principal. As a result, procedures for selecting principals have also become more critical to rural school districts. School systems, particularly rural school districts, are encouraged to adopt systematic, rational means for selecting administrators. Such procedures will…