As online research has become an increasingly standard activity for middle school and high school students, Wikipedia (http://www.wikipedia.org) has simultaneously emerged as the bane of many teachers who include research-focused assignments in their courses. An online encyclopedia that allows anyone to edit its entries, Wikipedia has educators…

The purpose of this study was to investigate the learning that takes place when people with disabilities interact in a rehabilitation context. Data were generated through in-depth interviews and close observations in a 2 one-half week-long rehabilitation program, where the participants learned both wheelchair skills and adapted physical…

Suggests ways for student journalists to produce newspapers with credibility. (RB)

Stresses the importance of presenting the news in a conversational manner when the radio is the medium of communication. (RB)

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)