African American School Psychology Program Leavers

This phenomenology used 21 in-depth interviews to explore seven African Americans’ experiences at the school psychology programs they left. The purpose was to investigate what experiences contributed to participants’ decisions to leave programs; if programs used retention strategies and if so, participants’ view of the strategies; and what participants believe might have encouraged their retention. Findings indicate that misalignment between participants’ career aims and their perceptions of school psychology practice as well as poor relationships with faculty and peers contributed to decisions to leave programs. Five participants reported that programs did not utilize retention strategies. Two reported that a sole faculty advocate served as a retention strategy, while one noted funding. Participants cited funding and advisement as strategies that might have encouraged their retention

Content Preparation and Management for Web Design: Eliciting, Structuring, Searching, and Displaying Information

The vast amount of information available through the Web has made it difficult to retrieve information relevant to a specific task. To help ensure that users\u27 interactions with a system are successful, preparation of content and its presentation to users must take into account (a) what information needs to be extracted, (b) the way in which this information should be stored and organized, (c) the methods for retrieving the information, and (d) how the information should be displayed. The goal of this article is to discuss the generic problems facing content preparation and evaluate the current methods available to help remedy them, as well as identify areas in which more research is needed. The material presented in this article was a result of the collective efforts of the participants of a special white paper session that was part of the 9th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (HCI International 2001)

Content Preparation and Management for Web Design: Eliciting, Structuring, Searching, and Displaying Information

The vast amount of information available through the Web has made it difficult to retrieve information relevant to a specific task. To help ensure that users\u27 interactions with a system are successful, preparation of content and its presentation to users must take into account (a) what information needs to be extracted, (b) the way in which this information should be stored and organized, (c) the methods for retrieving the information, and (d) how the information should be displayed. The goal of this article is to discuss the generic problems facing content preparation and evaluate the current methods available to help remedy them, as well as identify areas in which more research is needed. The material presented in this article was a result of the collective efforts of the participants of a special white paper session that was part of the 9th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (HCI International 2001)