Analyzes why the public has lost faith in the schools and offers two ways to restore that faith--identify educational leaders with high credibility to form a national academy or policies commission and build faith in the functional rationality of the educational system. (Author/IRT)

Offers four suggestions for maintaining credibility: (1) be visible, (2) know your audience, (3) don't be blinded by how much you know, and (4) care about your audience. (Author/IRT)

This Digest, intended as an instructional aid for beginning research students and a refresher for researchers in the field, identifies key factors that play a critical role in determining the credibility that should be given to a specific research study. The needs for empirical research, randomization and control, and significance testing are…

The findings of a study of print readers' perceptions of the believability and interest of various advertising formats fail to support increasing either the frequency or specificity of comparative messages. The findings suggest that advertisers should consider the dimensions of intensity and directionality in their message development. (GT)

The study of persuasion is a significant means of dealing with others in the business environment. Speaker credibility and methods of establishing credibility are essential elements in the process of educating students for and about business. (JOW)

Tests a complex model of how audience members assess source credibility. Hypothesizes that (1) message quality has direct effects and mediates partially the effects of initial credibility assessments on subsequent source credibility assessments and on belief change; and (2) subsequent credibility assessments mediate effects of initial credibility…

Skill using the American Psychiatric Association's 2000 "Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Text Revision" is essential for increased professional credibility, career marketability, and third-party reimbursement of professional counselors. This article focuses on how to improve counselors' skill with the manual, by…

Presents a list of 23 questions for high school newspaper advisors concerning publication policies, editorials, source anonymity, page design, and other issues relating to overall credibility. (RS)

Notes a lack of consensus about what standards should apply to research on reading. Suggests that any general standards for reading research must be broad and ecumenically applied and that the reading research community should take up a serious discussion of standards. (RS)

Discusses several studies which have shown that children's testimony about genital touch is greatly affected by how they are questioned and that jurors consider child witnesses who testify via closed-circuit television to be less reliable than those who testify in person. (MDM)

The demands of the American justice system make testimony difficult for children, yet the presumption of innocence and the rights of the accused are so important that society is justified in asking even young children to endure the stress of the witness stand. (MDM)

Addresses budget issues in terms of "getting" and "spending." Notes that educators should not lay waste their powers in exchange for getting and spending. Notes that careful budget management is a necessary virtue, but it is not a sufficient virtue to win additional support. Suggests what to take to an annual budget hearing. (SG)

Experts suggest that moral and ethical lapses are undermining public trust in schools and their leaders--institutions and individuals long held to a higher standard of behavior than their peers in corporate and political arenas. Incidents of financial kickbacks, nepotism and conflicts of interest may grab the news media's attention. Yet…

Students in a large human development course rated the accuracy of 50 developmental claims. Half of the claims were specifically embedded in the course content, but the remaining claims were not addressed in the course. Students also identified the major information source for each developmental claim rated. From the beginning to the end of the…

Telling a lie, according to Harry G. Frankfurt, is different from engaging in bullshit because, while a lie is designed to insert a particular falsehood at a specific point in a set or system of beliefs in order to avoid the consequences of having that occupied by truth, bullshit neither misrepresents the state of affairs to which it refers nor…