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Pressley, Michael; And Others – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1984
Ten- to thirteen-year-old children selected either the objectively more effective keyword method or the naturalistic context method for learning vocabulary meanings. Concludes that, even in the absence of explicit performance feedback, children can be induced to reflect on their use of strategies and their outcomes on subsequent cognitive actions.…
Descriptors: Children, Decision Making, Decision Making Skills, Elementary Education

Das-Gupta, Padmini – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1987
Presents an algorithm for use in natural language document retrieval systems which automatically determines if the conjunction "and" in a statement representing an information need should be translated into a Boolean "and" or "or." The results of an experiment that used the algorithm are reported, and further research is suggested. (CLB)
Descriptors: Algorithms, Componential Analysis, Computational Linguistics, Conjunctions