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Ridley, Charles R.; Li, Lisa C.; Hill, Carrie L. – Counseling Psychologist, 1998
Describes a procedure that sensitizes counselors to cultural data in assessment and case conceptualization. The Multicultural Assessment Procedure (MAP) entails identifying cultural data through multiple methods of data collection, interpreting cultural data to formulate a working hypothesis, incorporating cultural data with other relevant…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Beliefs, Bias, Case Studies
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Torres, Vasti – Journal of College Student Development, 2006
This study presents the conceptualization and subsequent model fit analysis of a retention model for Latino/a students at urban commuter universities. The three institutions involved in the study represent different environments for Latino/a students. Two are Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSI) and the third represents a predominantly White…
Descriptors: Urban Universities, Structural Equation Models, Hispanic American Students, Whites
Wright, Derek – 1989
This document addresses how the employers and trainers involved in further education in Britain can foster common, everyday moral behavior such as honesty and reliability in the young people they prepare for employment. The first section states that a nation's moral health is as important as its economic and political health. Sections 2 and 3…
Descriptors: Altruism, Codes of Ethics, Credibility, Employment Potential
Morehouse, Ward – 1979
Relationships between mass-media coverage of international affairs and university-based expertise in international, language, and area studies are investigated. The report is presented in three major sections. Section I poses issues for debate: How important is media in informing the American public about world affairs? Does it really matter if…
Descriptors: Career Education, Continuation Education, Credibility, Cultural Interrelationships
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Lowry, Robert C.; Silver, Brian D. – PS: Political Science and Politics, 1996
Asserts that variance between a university's reputation as an institution and its commitment to research have a greater impact on political science department rankings than any internal factors within the department. Includes several tables showing statistical variables of department and university rankings. (MJP)
Descriptors: Academic Education, Achievement Rating, Analysis of Variance, Credibility
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Kim, Bryan S. K.; Atkinson, Donald R. – Journal of Counseling Psychology, 2002
This study investigated the relationships among client adherence to Asian cultural values, counselor expression of cultural values, counselor ethnicity, and career counseling process with Asian American college students. Clients who had high adherence to Asian cultural values evaluated Asian American counselors as more empathic and credible than…
Descriptors: Values, Ethnicity, Career Counseling, Asian Americans
Irvine, Robert B. – 1987
Guidelines for administrator response to the mass media when one's organization is the focus of a news story are offered in this book. Practical suggestions are offered for the projection and enhancement of an organization's value in crisis and noncrisis situations. A common-sense communications approach is advocated regardless of organizational…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Agenda Setting, Communication Skills, Conflict Resolution
Montgomery, L. June – 1979
Data concerning school counselor credibility often emphasize shortcomings rather than achievements; counselors who support students' self-exploration may be evaluated less favorably than counselors who make decisions for the students. Two theoretical approaches to school counseling are the guidance of student personnel services approach and the…
Descriptors: Counseling Effectiveness, Counselor Evaluation, Counselor Role, Counselor Teacher Cooperation
House, Ernest R. – 1977
Evaluation is an act of persuasion directed to a specific audience concerning the solution of a problem. The process of evaluation is prescribed by the nature of knowledge--which is generally complex, always uncertain (in varying degrees), and not always propositional--and by the nature of logic, which is always selective. In the process of…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Audiences, Bias, Case Studies
Ingle, Henry T. – 1975
To discover children's knowledge about computer operation and programing characteristics and its effect on children's perceptions of computer expertise, pre- and posttests were administered to 292 children from 5th, 7th and 9th grades. Children were randomly assigned to see a factual film on computers or to a film on another subject. It was…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Science, Computers, Credibility
2002
The Mass Communication and Society Division of the proceedings contains the following 11 papers: "Evaluating the Credibility of Online Information: A Test of Source and Advertising Influence" (Jennifer Greer, Jane Baughman, Patricia Cunningham-Wong, Ethnie Groves, Catherine McCarthy, Megan Myers and Cindy Petterson); "Disruptive and…
Descriptors: Advertising, Broadcast Television, Communication (Thought Transfer), Credibility
Linn, Robert L.; And Others – 1991
The statute authorizing the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) calls for the National Assessment Governing Board (NAGB) to set appropriate achievement levels in all areas and grades tested by the NAEP. These levels are intended to establish what students should know, not just what they do know. In 1990, the NAEP posited three…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Standards, Credibility, Educational Assessment
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Moore, Roy L.; And Others – 1977
Questionnaires completed by 607 middle school and high school students provided data about the learning of selected advertising-related cognitions among adolescents and on the short-term effect of these cognitions and other communication variables on adolescent consumption behavior. Among the findings were the following: susceptibility to…
Descriptors: Adolescent Behavior, Adolescents, Advertising, Behavior Patterns
ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, Urbana, IL. – 1978
This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 18 titles deal with a variety of topics, including the following: the relationship of speech communication variables to perceived communication competence; interpersonal communication in a simulation game of intercultural…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Black Dialects, Blacks, Children
2003
The Newspaper Division of the proceedings contains the following 22 papers: "Framing Freedom: Hoosier Republican and Democratic Newspaper Editors Frame Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation" (David W. Bulla); "Quantifying Newspaper Quality: 'I Know It When I See It'" (Philip Meyer and Koang-Hyub Kim); "Cultural Convergence:…
Descriptors: Audience Awareness, Case Studies, Change Strategies, Cooperation
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