When assessing teacher candidates, there are eight computer-literacy areas to consider: word processing, databases, spreadsheets, presentation programs, online service access, e-mail, trouble-shooting common computer problems, and computer software usage and evaluation. Finalists should be able to demonstrate these competencies. (MLH)

In study 1, 35 veterans in vocational rehabilitation received resume preparation counseling. In study 2, 15 substance abusing veterans in compensated work therapy received vocational assessment feedback to help them use self-knowledge effectively. Both interventions increased career decision-making self-efficacy. (SK)

Explores four aspects of the economic analysis of education. First is changing the concern with observed performance and student outcomes, and second is the potential for experimentation to add to knowledge. Other concerns addressed include the study of the incentive structure in schools and the tendency of analysis to be linked with expectations.…

Both students and teachers can suffer from anonymity. In a spiritual classroom, redemption means deliverance, or liberation from obligatory suffering. Teaching may be viewed as reclaiming students from anonymity (a powerful form of inertia) and leading them toward deliverance. The teacher is simultaneously liberated by believing in a student's…

Explores the progress of Fenway Middle College High School, in its third year as a Boston pilot school (an in-district charter-school alternative). Significant areas of autonomy remain untested. Fenway learned the value of an experienced, caring, diverse faculty; networking and reorganization opportunities; and idealism to counter "bigger is…

Examines who preservice teachers perceived they could and could not be in the middle school classroom as well as who their students could and could not be. Documents how these stories naturalize a way of being in the middle school classroom. Suggests that such narratives covertly authorize particular ways of seeing students. (RS)

Presents findings from the "2001 Graduating Student & Alumni Survey," conducted by the National Association of Colleges and Employers. Results reveal that most students: chose majors that will prepare them for a specific line of work; do not expect lofty salaries or unusual perks; have healthy concerns about conducting a successful job search; and…

Examines perceptions and aspirations of 187 undergraduate students about the best and worst possible outcomes for themselves, the United States, and Europe. Results from the Cantril Self-Anchoring Striving Scale indicate students were more optimistic about their own futures, less so about Europe, and more pessimistic about America's future.…

The expectations of 23 fourth- and 16 fifth-year teacher education students about teacher evaluation were compared. Students had many similar expectations about evaluation and feedback, but fourth-year students were more concerned with the tone of the evaluation while fifth-year students were more concerned about its content. (SLD)

Adopted a structural perspective in examining life events in the context of an individual's life story. Ten men and 10 women at each of 3 age groups identified personally significant life events from their past and anticipated future. Women identified more life events and reported a younger age corresponding to their first event than men.…

Recently, a group of students at an Ohio high school convinced administrators to consider adopting an honor code. A committee examined how academic integrity could be incorporated into school culture. The evolving system's fundamental values hinge on honesty, fairness, respect, and stakeholder responsibility. (MLH)

Two experiments investigated infants' sensitivity to amount of continuous quantity and to changes in amount of continuous quantity. Found that 6-month-olds looked significantly longer at a novel quantity than at the familiar quantity. Nine-month-olds looked significantly longer at an impossible event than at a possible event. Findings question…

A questionnaire on memory strategies, memory knowledge, and memory behavior was given to 31 teachers and 31 parents of Australian students with mental retardation. Teachers and parents held low expectations for the children's memory skills and these expectations were lower for memory behavior and memory strategies than for memory knowledge.…

Highlights the importance of expecting and encouraging all students to go as far as their abilities and interests can take them, criticizing the notion that some students do not need to be prepared for higher education because they will never rise above an expected level due to their ethnicity or social status. (SM)

Analysis of a survey of 300 business majors found that though technology use in the classroom motivates students by increasing learning, enjoyment, and interest in material, such motivation does not necessarily lead to better student performance on tests or papers. Recommends instructors increase student involvement by making presentation…