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The Real Dope on Dealing with an Addict: How Addiction Saved My Life is a how-to, survival guide for anyone with an addict/alcoholic in his or her life--and that's a lot of us. Authors and sisters, Beth Brand and Meridith Powell, have lived through six addictions in their immediate family. In this book, they share the practical, insider advice that--until now--could only be gained by living through the roller coaster that is the active addict.

This series is designed to enhance teachers' professional judgements. It will enable teachers to diagnose, plan, implement and evaluate their student's learning experience.

This study examined the effects of rater stress on halo error, severity error and rating accuracy in performance appraisal. Eight-four participants completed either a stressful or nonstressful in-basket exercise, either before or after observing the videotaped performance of a manager. They then rated the manager on several performance dimensions. Ratings provided by participants completing the stressful in-basket were less accurate than those provided by participants completing the nonstressful in-basket. However, ratings provided by these two groups showed no differences in halo or severity error. In addition, raters who completed the in-basket after seeing the target performance but before rating that performance provided less accurate ratings than those completing the in-basket before observing and rating the performance. These result indicate that rater stress may lead to greater appraisal inaccuracy, and that this inaccuracy is largely a function of faulty information retrieval.

"This series is designed to enhance teachers' professional judgements. It will enable teachers to diagnose, plan, implement and evaluate their student's learning experience."--Back cover.