Asylums and Sport: Participation,Isolation and the Role of Cricket in the Treatment of the Insane

In the histories of mental institutions, sports and recreations have played a central role. Particular focus has been placed on staff and patients but it is only recently that historians have sought to explain the role of sport in general, and cricket in particular, in therapeutic terms. In addition, other recent work has highlighted the importance of cricket as one of the activities that placed asylums at the centre of a wider network within society. Yet there remains a pervasive sense these institutions were both isolated and distant. The aim of this article is to understand this apparent contradiction by drawing together recent themes relating to therapy and interaction. Using contemporary and secondary sources, it will explore the composition of teams. Focusing primarily on Great Britain, and using a case study from the north of England at the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, it will seek to explain who played cricket in the asylum and who represented the teams that played in the local community. It will also explore reactions locally to those teams. Ultimately, it will show that although teams were integrated within their local communities, it was their composition that contributed to both physical and social senses of isolation.     

Subject Access for Readers' Advisory Services: Their Impact on Contemporary Spanish Fiction in Selected Public Library Collections

Study findings suggest that access to Spanish language adult fiction through bilingual records in the OPAC is mutually beneficial for RA librarians and patrons. Subject access depends on local cataloging policies regarding enhancements for bibliographic records and catalogers' Spanish language proficiencies. Without incentives to enhance bibliographic records, local bilingual cataloging will continue but may not be shared. Reader advisory can be improved with the multicultural RA tools, multilingual RA websites, incentives to libraries for enhancements to non‐English records, and linking individual bibliographic records in OPACS to reviews and comments for titles in languages other than English.     

Perceived organizational effectiveness,job satisfaction,culture, and communication: Challenging the traditional view

This study challenges the traditional view that organizational culture, relationships, and communication activities precede or produce the outcomes of job satisfaction and perceived organizational effectiveness. Specifically, the study (a) empirically examines job satisfaction and perceived effectiveness for their potential as important explanatory processes for the outcomes of organizational culture, relationships, and information receiving and sending, and (b) empirically compares the traditional model with the competing conceptualization. Results of a canonical correlation analysis utilizing 2245 individuals in 21 organizations in various parts of the world indicate that 54.8% of the variance in perceptions of culture, relationships, information receiving, and information sending can be explained by job satisfaction and perceived organizational effectiveness. Results of a nested model comparison of the two models using latent variable path analysis demonstrated that the competing conceptualization is a significantly better fit to the data than the traditional view.     

Formative Ideas in American Education by V. T. Thayer. New York: Dodd,Mead & Company,Inc., 1965. 394 pp. $3.95 paper

Reading and the Psychology of Perception, by Hunter Diack. New York: Philosophical Library Inc., 1960. 155 pp. $6.00.

Administration of Secondary Schools by Rudyard K. Bent and Lloyd E. McCann. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc. 1960. 356 pp. $6.50.

A Practical Introduction to Measurement and Evaluation by H. H. Remmers, N. L. Gage, and J. Francis Rummel, New York: Harper and Brothers, 1960. 360 pp. $4.75.

Curriculum in the Modern Elementary School by Robert Beck, Walter Cook, and Nolan Kearny, Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, Inc. 1960. 2nd Edition, 513 pp. $7.25

Educational Research for Classroom Teachers by John B. Barnes. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1960. 229 pp. $4.00.

Handbook of Research Methods in Child Development, by Mussen, Paul H. (Ed.). New York: John Wiley &; Sons, Inc., 1960. x-1061 pp. $15.25.

Speech in the Classroom by Donald H. Ecroyd. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1960; pp. 151.

Student Teaching in a Secondary School and Guiding a Student Teacher by Thomas J. Brown. New York: Harper &; Brothers, 1960. 286 pages (Text—217 pp., Manual—69 pp.) $3.75.     

Why Might Distance Make the Heart Grow Fonder?: A Relational Turbulence Model Investigation of the Maintenance of Long Distance and Geographically Close Romantic Relationships

Following the relational turbulence model, we examined the extent to which relational uncertainty and partner interference mediate distance and relational maintenance, here assessed as relational continuity constructional units (RCCUs), as predictors of relational turbulence. Results were consistent with and extend the relational turbulence model, with relational uncertainty mediating RCCUs and partner interference mediating distance. In addition to highlighting RCCUs as a communicative buffer against relational uncertainty, the results reveal a complex picture of geographic distance. Addressing mixed findings in previous research, it appears distance may foster relational turbulence yet also predict reduced turbulence when accompanied by diminished partner interference.     

Designing an Affordable Usability Test for E‐Learning Modules

ABSTRACT: This article provides background and an introduction to a user‐centered design and usability test in an inexpensive format that allows content experts who are novices in e‐learning development to perform testing on newly developed technical training modules prior to their release. The use of a small number of test participants, avoidance of elaborate testing laboratories, and the establishment of clear, concise objectives with a detailed test outline are supported by the discount usability testing approach. This approach reduces testing cost, provides faster results, and yields a more successful product and increased customer satisfaction. Discount usability testing should have broad appeal to new e‐learning developers as a final step before releasing their newly developed training modules.