College-age females (N=58) provided information about their risk-taking behaviors. Participants engaged in a variety of risky behaviors. Analysis showed that participants' justifications were largely goal-oriented or reflected a preoccupation with personal needs. These results are contrary to the widely held belief that adolescents' risk-taking is…

In Studies 1 and 2, the authors evaluated deliberate practice theory through analyses of the relationship between practice and performance for 2 populations of athletes: triathletes and swimmers, respectively. In Study 3, the authors obtained evaluations of practice from athletes' diaries. Across athletes, length of time involved in fitness…

This study examined the reliability of a retrospective recall methodology for providing evidence of deliberate imagery practice. A secondary purpose was to determine which imagery activities constituted the sport-specific definition of deliberate practice (Starkes, Deakin, Allard, Hodges, & Hayes, 1996). Ninety-three Canadian athletes from one…

The 2008 Central States Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages focused on learning about the diverse backgrounds and needs of today's students. The 2009 Conference continued that focus and added diversity by instructors in using a variety of teaching methods, strategies, themes, technologies, and assessments. Presenters from all 17 states…

The use of retreat spaces by 65 children in 9 family child care homes was assessed in this study. Family child care providers used daily diaries to collect information about children's retreat frequency and associated behavior. The findings revealed that nearly half of the children used informal, readily available retreats during the research…

It has long been commonplace in reading studies to say that despite the efforts of authors, publishers, censors, and others to restrict access to print culture, readers evade those restrictions and exert control over their reading. This control can take many forms, from obtaining banned books to interpretive practices that subvert intended…

Western New York's Allegany Seneca Reservation was a troubled place. John Peirce, one of many Allegany chiefs, could only lament in 1821 how a political situation had spiraled out of control: "war had risen amongst them." Within a span of a few years, Quakers operating a schoolhouse on Seneca lands had ripped apart the Allegany people.…

(Purpose) The purpose of this study was to investigate features of Japanese students' contact with the target language (English) outside the classroom in a study abroad context. (Methodology) The participants in this study were 29 Japanese students taking general English courses, for 12 weeks, at two private English language schools in New…

This article explores how dialogue journals and response journals can be used to encourage reflection among pre-service teachers. Thirty-one pre-service English teachers from two Hong Kong universities participated in the study. One group wrote dialogue journals and the other group wrote response journals throughout two semesters on two separate…

Literary scholars like Lynn Bloom consider truly private diaries as "bare-boned" works which are "written with neither art nor artifice." In 1995, a "pile of bones" arrived at one person's door delivered by Federal Express. They were the bones of her great aunt Annie Ray--fragments of the diary she kept from 1881 to…

The use of personal documents in social science research, and in particular, methods and limitations of journal keeping in research on teaching planning, are discussed. Field studies are reported in which teachers were asked to record their planning deliberations and the accompanying thoughts in a personal journal. While it became apparent that…

Stresses the importance of preserving information for use by future administrators. Suggests that administrators preserve important documents from the files, keep newspaper clippings of important university events and a copy of the annual report to the President. (HMV)

While politicians argue about standards and administrators carry on cutting, life inside school carries on. The staff at South View County Junior School in Basingstoke have been looking at their everyday experience by keeping a record of just one of their working weeks. (Editor)

Broad objectives and a Five-Year Plan are given for the Developmental Mathematics Curriculum Committee of the American Mathematical Association of Two Year Colleges. (MN)