This paper examines some of the negative consequences that have occurred in school districts attempting to comply with state legislation in regard to competency testing. It analyzes four definitions of competency assessments for elementary schools and then lists several possible results of a hasty response to competency testing mandates. The paper…

Intended for parents and professionals, the document contains a listing of books, newsletters, periodicals, and free material on learning disabilities. Publications are listed alphabetically by author or sponsor with entries that usually provide the following information: title, publisher, publisher's address, publication date, cost, and brief…

The paper deals with the identification of chronically disruptive students in Iowa. The first section details the sociological and educational characteristics of chronically disruptive students. Such students are said to be rebellious, to defy behavioral standards, and to fare poorly in academics. A second section addresses differential diagnosis…

A selected list of terminology used in special education in four languages--English, French, Russian, and Spanish--is set out in this glossary. This preliminary edition is intended as an overall framework and partial listing of terms with their definitions. The aim of the glossary is to facilitate communication, spoken and written, between…

The glossary contains definitions of approximately 600 terms which are concerned with legal, medical, and social work aspects of child abuse and neglect. The explanations of the terms are said to represent experts' consensus and conformance with the Standards of the National Center on Child Abuse and Neglect. A list of 54 acronyms is also…

This paper discusses the current confusion in differentiating between reading disabilities and learning disabilities, as well as the role of the learning and reading specialist. The origin and history of the movement toward helping children labeled as having a reading or learning handicap are examined, and various definitions are discussed. It is…

Walberg and Thomas (1972) have made an attempt to operationalize and validate the concept of open education. However, their conception fails to differentiate between open education and other nontraditional approaches to education, thereby lumping together a variety of different types of classrooms. In addition, their method of item selection does…

This workbook is designed to help participants of the Independence Training Program (ITP) to achieve a definition of "independence." The program was developed for teenage girls. The process for developing the concept of independence consists of four steps. Step one instructs the participant to create an imaginary situation where she is…

Because multimedia presentations are used to communicate diverse ideas, and because they employ mixtures of art forms, they have resisted systematic criticism. An attempt has been made to systematize criticism of multimedia presentations by using a variety of typologies to look at the style and structure of the presentation, its value to the…

A listing of words and definitions compiled from more than 10 college and high school textbooks are presented in this dictionary of marketing terms. Over 1,200 entries of terms used in retailing, wholesaling, economics, and investments are included. This dictionary was designed to aid both instructors and students to better understand the…

This paper accepts Labov's (1973) criticisms of the categorial approach, i.e., the view that linguistic units are categories which are discrete, invariant, qualitatively distinct, conjunctively defined, and composed of atomic primes, and follows Labov in attempting to develop a non-categorial (or fuzzy-categorial) approach to lexical semantics,…

Very little is known about the Chicanos in the northern U.S., especially those in the Northwest. Research and writing on Chicanos have concentrated on the Southwest or large urban settings, thus excluding those Chicanos residing in rural settings except for those in the migrant stream. These rural residents have become a forgotten people,…

This report attempts to determine to what extent the thesis that observation is theory-dependent holds in the area of verbal learning theory. This area was chosen because: (1) a philosophical criticism of verbal learning theory will contribute to the difficult task of investigating the border area between philosophy and psychology; and (2) no one…

The study examines definitions of Outdoor Education (OE) and similar terms, and identifies the objectives of such programs in Resident Outdoor Schools to determine their educational purposes. The study is limited to a review of OE literature published between 1968-73 in the U.S. Definitions are those stated by arbitrarily selected people and…

The glossary is one of twenty in various subject areas of vocational education designed to assist the student in vocabulary mastery for particular vocational education courses. They are part of the Vocational Reading Power Project, Title III, E.S.E.A. This glossary is for a course in advanced display. It is divided into two parts: one provides the…