This article invokes a literal image of test givers as measurement devices and explores the psychometric properties of these test administrator instruments. Concurrent and content validation and test-retest and parallel-forms validity are explored. (SLD)

The author contends that in order to change teacher classroom behavior, the thought processes of the teacher (while teaching) must be made conscious and be altered through in-service training. (JKS)

It is asserted that intelligence testing is part of a national educational ideology which is used to rationalize Chicanos' educational inequalities. This rationale suggests that inequality is the result of the group's inability to function competently within the American social and educational structures. (MH)

The purposes of higher education are considered in this brief statement of opinion. (JKS)

The optimum use of the microcomputer can emerge when it competes both in cost effectiveness and actual qualitative performance with all other educational media available. Mainframe computers, available in most school districts, can share data with microcomputers via terminals in schools and classrooms and allow microcomputers to operate most…

Tenure for faculty in universities and other institutions of higher education is reexamined. Originally intended to protect intellectual freedom, tenure currently places a financial burden on institutions subject to dwindling financial resources. Colleges and universities are encouraged to replace tenure with a year-by-year contract system. (LMO)

Focusing on the alternation of languages in a bilingual classroom, a conceptual framework is discussed that utilizes the teacher's communication competence. Language alternation on the part of the teacher and the student is an active process of negotiation, creating a high level of linguistic and social exchange. (SLD)

This follow-up study investigated teacher attitude change over one preservice and three in-service years. The most significant finding was that professional preparation is a more critical variable affecting teacher attitudes than several years of post-graduate teaching experience. (Author/GK)

Effective teaching and more efficient management can be achieved with little additional cost through initiation of a teacher-leader classification. Teacher-leaders will be skilled in designing, implementing, and evaluating inservice education; will provide a collaborative approach to staff development; and could also be the catalyst for reversing…

This paper explores the debates which have contributed to the conceptual development of global education. The meaning of global education is clarified by exploring the relationship between various world views and the purposes of global education. The author contends that these perspectives determine the content and purpose of global education. (BW)

To deal with an interdependent world, citizenship education can no longer be confined to the person in the street, must stress the analytical skills with which to trace the causal chains that entwine our lives, and must avoid scare tactics. The tools appropriate to training for citizenship in an interdependent world are listed. (BW)

This article describes how a global perspective can be added to a course on U.S. history, which is not traditionally thought of as having a world orientation. Several activities are described, and a resource list is appended. (BW)

This paper explores some of the reasons why global perspectives education has not found its way into the school curriculum. Also it offers some strategies for implementing global perspectives education in school programs. (BW)

For global educators, school improvement will mean a change in school culture, methods, norms, procedures--a change to reflection upon the meaning, use, and organization of information as a key learning process. Helping schools improve will mean assisting the local school in responding to changes that have yet to occur. (BW)

International studies give the broad background needed for a truly global education. Area studies complement this approach by offering specificity to the issues and providing perspectives that break ehtnocentric and nationalistic molds, giving students the world picture as seen through the eyes of other peoples. (BW)