Measuring change when true experimental conditions do not exist is a difficult process. This article reviews the artifacts of change measurement in evaluations and quasi-experimental designs, delineates considerations in choosing a model to measure change under nonideal conditions, and suggests ways to organize models to facilitate selection.…

Drawing on current models for increasing the use of information from external evaluations, the authors offer a user-centered approach for increasing the use of results from internal evaluations of graduate medical education. The overriding emphasis of the user-centered approach is the utility of the resultant data. (Author/BW)

The unique characteristics of the organizational context are reviewed, and it is shown how internal evaluation fits within them. The major factors that define the organizational context are delineated, including the emergence of the evaluation resource management function. (PN)

Focuses on the importance of maintaining clear and workable role expectations in counseling supervision. Describes a multilevel supervisory training program in terms of roles, responsibilities, and functional relationships. (JAC)

Reviews recent interviewing literature to determine the patterns or emphases that consistently contribute to an effective process of personnel selection. Examines three variables integral to all personnel selection--the qualities or characteristics desired in personnel, the means to determine the presence of these qualities, and who should be…

Presents outlines to help students focus on the qualities of good writing when reading for book reports. The outlines cover mysteries, biographies, and science and science fiction. (HTH)

Discusses how a college literature class staged a mock murder trial of the main character of Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily," using the text to substantiate the prosecution and defense. This method encouraged previously quiet students to join in class discussion and fostered a careful interpretation of the story. (HTH)

Discusses the rationale and presentation of an assignment on form design for a business, professional, and technical writing course. (HTH)

Describes a nonthreatening method for introducing videotaping to a speech class by allowing students to construct videotaped projects, such as news programs or interviews in groups. (HTH)

Offers strategies to use when students are not able to achieve a high level of accuracy in story reading. (FL)

Describes a workshop approach to writing instruction that creates an environment appropriate for the writing process approach to writing. (HOD)

Defines problem solving, discusses the use of problems developed by students that are relevant to their own lives, presents examples of practical mathematics problems that deal with local situations, discusses fringe benefits of this type of problem solving, and addresses teachers' concern that this method consumes too much time. (MBR)

Describes a survey of 120 high school students', administrators', and teachers' attitudes toward curricular coverage of the Holocaust and the best ways to teach about the topic. Found substantial support for increased emphasis on the Holocaust in the high school curriculum. (LAL)

Examines the relationship between some fifth graders' misconceptions about light, the science textbook the students used, their classroom instruction, and what they learned. Presents the "stories of cognitive learning" of six students in the class. (RH)

Describes a self-taught optical mineralogy course which uses eleven 40-60 minute color videocassettes. Laboratory exercises, instructional strategies, and development of graphical manipulation and display exercises are considered. Content of each tape is listed. (BC)