Unless education transfers back to the job, training is wasted and its value questioned. This article examines resistance to transfer and provides strategies for building transfer into training design. (CT)

A series of experiments investigating the processing of artificial set inclusion relations supports the view that many college students have the appropriate schema for processing inclusion relations, although it has not been elicited in previous artificial set-inclusion studies. (Author/PN)

This study provides support for the hypothesized effect of leniency on the discriminant validity of grouped questionnaire items. It was found that controlling for leniency resulted in a slight decrement in convergent validity but that discriminant validity was substantially improved. Implications for questionnaire validity and further research are…

Explores the question of what makes a discourse classification useful or appealing to teachers and examines the rise, reign, and fall of the scheme using narration, description, exposition, and argument as the four modes of discourse. (RL)

Offers a definition and classification scheme for staff development and an analysis of types of staff development programs. The analysis provides staff development coordinators with a realistic view of what different approaches can accomplish and permits a classification along institutional and individual dimensions that is complementary rather…

A reliability study is illustrated in which subjects are judged on a dichotomous trait by different sets of judges, possibly unequal in number. A kappa-like measure of reliability is proposed, its correspondence to an intraclass correlation coefficient is pointed out, and a test for its statistical significance is presented. (Author/CTM)

This paper examines the nature of concepts and conceptual processes and the manner of their formation. It argues that a process of successive abstraction and systematization is central to the evolution of conceptual structures. Classificatory processes are discussed and three levels of abstraction outlined. (Author/SJL)

Assesses the effectiveness of different child-generated classification schemes on preschool children's memory performance. Children who organized pictures according to taxonomic categories (e.g., animals, vehicles) demonstrated significantly greater recall than children classified as nontaxonomic. (Author/MP)

Report by the Education Advocates Coalition which compiles information regarding the practice of assigning minority students to classes for educable mentally retarded children. Discusses the refusal of the Bureau of Education for the Handicapped to remedy this situation. (MK)

Investigated two dimensions of a typology of police officers: perspective and passion. Test results indicate these dimensions failed to identify the four police types proposed by W.K. Muir relating to dimensions of: the professional, enforcer, reciprocator, and avoider. The four types appear as general characters defined by several dimensions.…

The Biglan model and its tests are reviewed. While the model has attractive features and may even reinforce popular opinion about differences among departments or subject areas, further investigations are necessary before broad propositions or generalizations can be advanced. (MLW)

Assesses preschool children's preferences for eight snack foods and tests procedures to modify preferences for certain foods by having children sort foods according to self-determined categories. Enhanced preferences for target foods generalized to other foods in the same category only for children using semantic sorting categories. (Author/DB)

Explores the hypothesis that speech acts cannot be located without bringing in knowledge beyond that of the textual referent itself. Points out that speech acts are made up of sentence context pairs through which one must search for a formal motion of context as a framing of speech activities. (FL)

The paper reviews recent major policy and legal changes in the United States concerning programs for handicapped students, with emphasis on the "least restrictive environment" principle. A set of ten "clusters of capability" is proposed to define some of the new or enlarged areas of responsibility of regular teachers. (Author)

Provides a model for categorizing marital and family skill training programs according to their theoretical orientation. Describes emotional, reasoning, and action approaches to intervention which allow counselors to examine the relationship between client characteristics and intervention approaches. (JAC)