Enquiry learning can produce impressive cognitive and affective outcomes. However, there are different types/levels of enquiry. This hierarchy can be used to assess the degree of enquiry of an activity, to suggest how the enquiry level of an activity might be adjusted, to design enquiry activities, and to better sequence enquiry activities during…

Reports the results of experiments in document clustering using three well-known test collections. (Author)

Young children usually prefer to classify objects on the basis of shape rather than color. The present study explored this phenomenon with a stimulus matching test and a component selection test. (ST)

Investigates socioeconomic influences on conceptual development (classificatory behaviors) of third and sixth grades. (DP)

A model for explaining structural variations between work units within the complex organization is presented. Based upon an analysis of the impact of task difficulty and task variability on intraorganizational structure, a taxonomy of alternative work-unit structures is derived. The taxonomy suggests that work units within a complex organization…

This bibliography contains 143 listings under six main headings, with some overlapping of items. The stress is on recent works which update a 1969 bibliography of 400 items. (Author)

Discussed is whether sociocultural deprivation is a cause of secondary mental retardation or whether socioculturally different would be a more appropriate term to apply to such children. (DB)

Responded to is an article by Michael Herrick suggesting that disadvantaged children be provided with special educational services offered learning disabled children. (DB)

A broad literature review revealed that younger children are more likely to categorize objects along complimentary dimensions than older children who tend to categorize according to similarity. This developmental change is discussed in terms of etiology--internal organismic changes or environmental changes. (DP)

The computational model of question answering proposed by a computer program, QUALM, is a theory of conceptual information processing based on models of human memory organization. It has been developed from the perspective of natural language processing in conjunction with story understanding systems. The processes in QUALM are divided into four…

The application of geography to spatial planning is discussed. Concepts presented include the regional concept, the typological concept, and spatial structure, spatial processes, and spatial organization. For address of journal see SO 504 028. (Author/RM)

The development of the ability to use taxonomic, phonemic and sense impression categories as dimensions of encoding was investigated using third and fifth graders and college students. (ED)