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 radio-television repair. It is divided into two parts: one…

This study was designed to investigate children's ability to use semantic syntax in connection with two types of meanings of polysemantic words. One hundred fourth graders ranked the familiarity of multiple definitions of 60 words given in a semantic survey. Those 34 words found to have common meanings or obscure meanings were used to construct a…

The problems of modeling a process as complex as reading are discussed, including such factors as the lack of agreement surrounding definitions of modeling, varying levels of rigor within and between models, the disjunctive categories within which models fall, and the difficulty of synthesis across fields which employ very different technical…

Several definitions of learning disabilities are reviewed, and the problem of identifying learning disabilities in a Catholic Elementary School is examined. Described are identification instruments, methods of reporting pupil progress, and followup procedures used in the project. (CL)

A test bias definition, applicable at the item-level of a test is presented. The definition conceptually equates test bias with measuring different things in different groups, and operationally equates test bias with a difference in item fit to the Rasch Model, greater than one, between groups. It is suggested that the proposed definition avoids…

This paper examines the nature of complex organizations and describes a new conceptual framework for considering organizational effectiveness. Organizations are viewed as open systems with distinct but interdependent subsystems that must be more or less coordinated to ensure organizational survival and growth. Organizations are also seen as…

Article critically evaluated the concepts of development/ modernization regarding the differences among "developed,""developing," and "underdeveloped" countries. (Author/RK)

A communication medium is defined in this article as a discursive or a non-discursive language, and language is defined as a system of symbols, that can be transferred. (Author)

Discusses the confusion caused by a variety of definitions of competence and competency based programs, and offers a set of definitions of competence comprehensive enough to be applied to all steps of educational planning. (SF)

Focuses on communication problems caused by the vocabulary associated with evaluation in instructional development projects (i.e., the terms "formative" and "summative"). (Author/JEG)

The objective of this paper is to examine the fundamental definitions of "progressive education" and to clarify the problems in its practical application. (Author)

The article presents an overview of some of the issues, prospects, and problems related to providing transportation for handicapped persons. (DLS)

Discusses definitional disorientation in the field of curriculum. (Author/MLF)

Wide ranges of functional abilities existing among the disabled led to the development and application of a quantitative method of evaluating severity of functional impairment for rehabilitative purposes. (BP)