Equipment selection during process design is a critical aspect of chemical engineering and requires engineering judgment and subjective analysis. When educating chemical engineering students in the selection of proprietary equipment during design, the focus is often on the types of equipment available and their operating characteristics. The…

The structure of the "American family" has undergone dramatic change in recent times. This study examined the differential relationship between perceived mate availability and aggregate assessments of sex-ratio in broadly distinctive socio-cultural groupings to determine whether the primary theoretical conceptualizations concerning the…

The booklet lists special education materials rated effective by the Teacher Initiated Materials Evaluation (TIME) process. Six hundred eleven special educators completed report forms identifying effective materials. The contents are organized by exceptionality area, level and curricular area. The exceptionality area is broken into the following…

Making the job offer and selling the career opportunity it presents is a very important process of employment interviewing. To reduce the chance of failure to sell the candidate on his opportunity, the interviewer must understand the psychology of persuasion, borrowing some techniques from the professional salesman. (Author/BP)

Provides up-to-date information on ranking of physiology periodicals based on citation counts. (JB)

Discusses problems of defining manuscript collections and the actual business of collecting. (Author)

Librarians of the future must be increasingly aware of the needs of library clientele in order to make selection decisions. (LS)

The 56 citations from recent periodicals (1976-1980) listed in this bibliography were selected to indicate the diverse subject areas other than instructional technology and related fields that are interested in audiovisual materials, the types of media they are interested in, and criteria used or suggested for the evaluation and selection of such…

The teacher selection process successfully used in a small district in Wyoming essentially involves advertising the vacancy, accepting applications, appointing a selection committee (including two teachers from the building where the vacancy exists), screening the applicants, inviting the top six candidates to come for interviews, and selecting…

In May 1968, the President of the University of Minnesota appointed a task force to study the question of student representation in the University Senate and in individual campus assemblies, and to explore ways in which students might be elected to serve. The task force noted that although students were well represented on many committees, the…

This pamphlet provides information for those who may be interested in working in the junior college field and those in the colleges who are looking for staff for their campuses. Opportunities are plentiful in either the large public colleges, with their diverse student bodies and curricula, or in the smaller independent institutions. Those…

The purpose of this paper is to briefly sketch a paradigm which the authors feel has promise of placing the selection of media to present basic concepts on a scientific basis, and may also suggest fruitful hypotheses for testing. The authors suggest that the following steps be taken: (1) Identify and describe the concepts in terms of defining…