Three studies involving 4-year olds and 5-year olds from Hong Kong (samples of 36, 10, and 12) and the United States show that Chinese children surpass their English and American counterparts in rote counting and place value numeration as well as embedded ten-cardinal understanding. Implications are discussed. (SLD)

Discusses the development of a model for providing user-centered access to collections of information that uses a standard terminology to represent the information collection and a set of possibly overlapping user domains to represent a social network. Describes results of a pilot study using the Metathesaurus of the Unified Medical Language…

Before students and teachers can really understand another culture, they need to learn about their own culture. Considering the products, practices and perspectives of their own families, for example, can open new pathways in their knowledge about family artifacts, foods, patterns of behavior and appreciation of their family's cultural traditions…

A REPORT ISSUED BY THE ISRAELI NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH IN THE BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES INDICATES THAT MANY OF THEIR CURRENT PROJECTS ARE INVESTIGATING CULTURALLY DEPRIVED ISRAELI CHILDREN. TOPICS INCLUDE THE GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT, LEARNING PSYCHOLOGY, AND FAMILY AND KINDERGARTEN BACKGROUNDS OF THESE CHILDREN AS WELL AS THE PREPARATION OF…

This study assessed the ongoing development of digital libraries (DLs) on the World Wide Web. DLs of art and literature were surveyed for selected works from the early Italian Renaissance in order to gain insight into the current trends prevalent throughout the larger population of DLs. The following artists and authors were selected for study:…

In continuation of the "Cumulated UDC Supplement - 1964" published by the International Federation for Documentation, this document provides a cumulative supplement to the Universal Decimal Classification for 1965-1975. This fifth volume of a five volume series lists new classification subdivisions in the following subject areas: (1) various…

This manual is intended for those concerned with planning and organizing programs of adult literacy at national and local levels in African countries, by pointing out certain common problems and showing various methods of resolving them. Contents include: definitions of literacy, motivation, the planning process, legislation and the organizational…

This document relates a conversation about translation between Vincent Cleary, a university teacher of Latin literature who formerly taught at the high school level, and Burton Raffel, a translator who has published works from a variety of foreign languages. Cleary provides such questions and comments as: "Why translation?""How much do we need…

The annotated bibliography for elementary teachers contains approximately 600 listings of resources about American Indians. The resources, which range from 1926-1972 (some are not dated), include materials prepared by Indians and non-Indians for Indian and/or non-Indian children. Sections in the bibliography are: Books for Children -- Indians of…

This preliminary report marks the first step in the efforts of a task force formed by the Council of the Great City Schools to reduce the gaps in student achievement by race, income, language, and gender. The report is based on data from 48 major urban school districts. A mixed picture has emerged. Some districts are placing their primary focus on…

Differential tendencies to avoid guessing on the Psychometric Entrance Test (the Israeli college entrance examination) were studied as a function of language group, gender, and examination date for over 10,000 students. Students with different cultural backgrounds and genders differed in their tendencies to guess. Implications for test results are…

Third-culture kids TCKs are adolescents who have lived at least one of their formative years in another country. This study compares survey data collected from British TCKs who were currently living in Hong Kong with those of their adolescent peers living in the UK and Hong Kong. The results unequivocally suggest that TCKs' perception of being…

The word "volunteer" has a different meaning in various cultures. The ways that people from a variety of cultures perceived volunteerism offered insights into the ways that people from those cultures organized their nations and communities. In this paper, part of a series on volunteerism, the National Director of American Field Service…

Over 300 items on team teaching published since 1958 are cataloged as follows: Books, pamphlets, and teaching films, 48; elementary school articles, 55; secondary school articles, 200. Secondary school articles are further divided into 10 topics: Business education, English, fine arts, foreign languages, mathematics, physical education, practical…

This paper attempts a sociolinguistic analysis of word-borrowing as one evidence of interaction between cultures, with particular reference to English-Japanese interaction. The paper discusses circumstances under which word-borrowing takes place; agents, reasons, and methods relating to word-borrowing; what words are borrowed; and the extent to…