This paper describes a project of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), Project Definition and Selection of Competencies: Theoretical and Conceptual Foundations (Project DeSeCo). DeSeCo was designed to complement past and current international comparative assessments by providing theoretical and conceptual foundations…

This paper focuses on statistical thinking as the third arm of statistical development. The paper opens with a survey of recent definitions of statistical thinking and then attempts to differentiate statistical thinking from statistical literacy and statistical reasoning. Implications for instruction are traced, emphasizing beginning courses for…

Discussions about how to use and analyze transcripts inevitably include how to classify and measure individual courses and how to aggregate and measure groups of courses in a meaningful way. The Secondary School Taxonomy (SST) was developed in the 1980s by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) as a framework for aggregating and…

Despite the fact that cheating on tests and other forms of academic dishonesty are rampant, there is no standard definition of academic dishonesty, nor is there agreement as to the particular behaviors that constitute cheating. In this study, a survey was administered to 160 university professors in order to obtain faculty estimates of the clarity…

Viewing the school as an organization and the community as based upon personal relations and connections, the relationship between the two is considered as part of a social network. The author considers influential networks, boundary perceptions and manipulations, and which school structures are likely to survive in that context. (AG)

Presents a brief statement of essential conditions for psychotherapeutic change: (a) a helping relationship patterned after the parent-child relationship; (b) the creation of a power base from which the therapist influences the client through common psychological techniques; and (c) a client who has the capacity to profit from the experience.…

Article considered the meaning of cultural services and its meaning for career education and professional education as well as the need for primary production and delivery services. (Author/RK)

The author discusses the status of children's rights according to various philosophical conceptions of social justice. He describes three traditional paternalist views of children and concludes that, on the whole, they are discouraging in their implications for children. (Editor)

The present research was undertaken in the attempt to gain knowledge about the nature of qualitative changes in vocabulary performance across the major portion of the life span. (Author)

Author stated that man must learn to live with man in order to create a humane climate in which education can fulfill its role as a developer of minds. (RK)

This paper attempts to define some critical criteria for evaluating the relationship between what is regarded as "art" and "entertainment" in American mass media by way of presenting a model for classroom discussion. (Editor)

Reprinted from the Times Literary Supplement'', October 13, 1972; present article is part of Lexicography and Dialect Geography, Festgabe for Hans Kurath''. (DD)

Meeting held in Nice, France, May 23-24, 1972. (VM)