Southeast Missouri State University's Kent Library is the only federal depository library in Missouri's 10th Congressional District and has a collection of over 150,000 U.S. Government documents. This resource guide identifies and describes the reference tools needed to access information in that collection. It includes short sections on basic…

This paper reports the major findings and interprets the results of longitudinal and cross-sectional exPeriments concerning the development of visual accommodation in infants 1 to 3 months of age. The stimulus was a high-contrast, random checkerboard which was presented at three different distances from the infants (25, 50 or 100 cm). The physical…

Statistics such as chi-square, phi, and Cramer's V are related to the R squared statistic of regression analysis. It is shown that the proportion of variance accounted for can be computed from many contingency table situations. (JKS)

A model of instruction is discussed and developed. The model has five requisite components; they are descriptions of: (1) the instruction agent's subject matter representation; (2) the learner's initial and current subject matter representations; (3) the instructional process itself; (4) the state of the learner at any point in the instructional…

Appendix I is concerned with the structure of axiomatic theories. Both the syntactic and deductive structure exhibited by axiomatic theories is investigated. Dependency is defined and a method is described that can be used to identify all dependencies that exist between axiomatic components. The ability to eliminate defined concepts and…

Presented are 26 articles originally published in "Science" during 1975-78. The document is divided into three parts. The first part contains articles on changes in energy use. Included are articles on industrial energy use, energy options and strategies for Western Europe, energy use in Brazil, and solar energy for village development, as well as…

This report focuses on two separate aspects of the longitudinal study of innovative instruction called Studies of Innovation. These aspects are the innovation being studied (the Instructional Programming Model of the Individually Guided Education Program) and the procedures used in selecting research sites. Following the introduction, Chapter 2…

Three experiments investigated concept identification and recall of information as a function of four selected variables: concept complexity, method of instance presentation, stimulus exposure time, and conditions of recall. In all three experiments, retention was measured by the recall of instance values and the recall of instance categories. The…

Two methods are presented for comparing distributions, such as achievement test score distributions, for distinctly different groups of persons in such a way that the comparison will not be influenced by the particular metric of the test being used. Both methods use percentile scores. One method, attributed to Flanagan, fits a straight line to the…

Reward contingencies and other extrinsic constraints on behavior can lead to reduced levels of interest in and/or decreased engagement in a target activity in a subsequent noncontingent situation. It has been hypothesized that this effect is caused by a change in the self-perceived locus of motivation from intrinsic to extrinsic. It follows from…

A fundamental statement of the only philosophy that can really lead to protection of wild lands emerged from the proceedings of the March, 1976 Wilderness and Individual Freedom Conference--there must be more citizen participation in wilderness decisions because there is a great diversity of wilderness users and because we cannot separate what…

The utility of a non-linear transformation of the criterion is established. The Pythagorean Theorem is used as the example to demonstrate the point. The functional relationships may be such (as in the Pythagorean Theorem) that an R-squared of 1.00 cannot be found without making a non-linear transformation of the criterion. The goal of…

The 29 editorial board members of three communications journals were asked to indicate what criteria they used to evaluate and select the manuscripts submitted to their journals for publication. The 16 people who responded indicated six things that they require in manuscripts: a strong introduction that clearly and concisely states the conceptual…

THE PRIMARY OBJECTIVES OF THE WESTERN CONFERENCE ON THE USES OF MENTAL HEALTH DATA ARE--(1) TO PROVIDE AN EFFECTIVE CHANNEL OF COMMUNICATION BETWEEN ADMINISTRATORS AND ANALYSTS ABOUT PROGRAMS WITHIN AND BETWEEN STATES, AND (2) TO IDENTIFY TRAINING NEEDS AND ENCOURAGE EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES TO MEET THEM. THIS REPORT DESCRIBES IN DETAIL PROCEEDINGS…

INSTITUTIONAL RESEARCH IN THE JUNIOR COLLEGE WAS CONSIDERED IN THREE ASPECTS. FIRST, A DESCRIPTION OF THE EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM AT MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY LED TO 10 PRINCIPLES OF ADMINISTRATION AND ORGANIZATION--(1) A SMALL DIRECTORATE, (2) AN OVERVIEW OF ACADEMIC PROBLEMS, (3) ACCESS TO KEY FACULTY COMMITTEES, (4) COORDINATION OF…