This study highlights some theoretical ideas which should be considered in attempting to assess the degree of abstraction underlying conceptual learning. (Author/RK)

A new typology suggests staff development guidelines for helping educators work more effectively with ethnically and racially diverse groups of students. (Author)

Finds that people vary in the amount and kinds of mass media they use and in the degree of discrimination they employ in selecting content, yet groups of persons use the media in similar ways. (Author/RB)

The purpose of this study was to research the purported effects of reduction of "mind set" and achievement of greater consistency in data classification when using Simon's Problem-Solving Approach. (Author/JC)

Lists some nomenclature rules for lower valent oxo acids of phosphorus and sulfer, including recent changes that have been made in some areas of this nomenclature. (MLH)

Deals with four major skill areas: (1) the analytics of categorization, (2) the analytics of priority assessment, (3) the analytics of time and transition, and (4) the analytics of decision strategy. (Author)

Works of A. Schutz, J. L. Austin, R. G. Collingwood, and J. Ortega y Gasset are sources for the philosophy of human action and relevance offered here to fill an alleged gap in educational theory. (GW)

Skills in sorting objects into sets, matching elements of one set with those of another, and forming subsets from larger collections are extended to show their application to everyday life.

This study examined the efficacy of teacher judgment in the process of setting mastery scores (cut scores) for fourth-grade mathematics in local school districts in Nebraska in terms of agreement between teacher classification of students and classification by the cut score obtained by this classification. The study also examined cut scores in…

In this paper we report on a research aimed to identify and characterize secondary school students' reasoning and proof abilities when working with 3-dimensional geometric solids. We analyze students' answers to two problems asking them to prove certain properties of prisms. As results of this analysis, we get, on the one side, a characterization…

Guttman implicational scaling techniques were used to identify a unidimensional set of English as a Second Language reading comprehension items. Data were analyzed from 202 students who sat for an institutional administration of the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL). The examinees who contributed to the scalable set had significantly…

Despite growing efforts to take a more focused approach to teaching writing across academic disciplines, relatively little is known about how writing-intensive courses impact students' perceptions of writing. This study addressed this question by investigating differences across academic disciplines in student perceptions of writing. Anthony…

This book documents the rise of tax-advantaged college savings plans and analyzes the rhetoric surrounding each state's program adoption to understand what such programs really mean. The book concludes with a Best Practices description of the ideal tax-advantaged college savings plan that maximizes public responsibility to pay for higher…

The effect of person misfit to an item response theory (IRT) model on a mastery/nonmastery decision was investigated. Also investigated was whether the classification precision can be improved by identifying misfitting respondents using person-fit statistics. A simulation study was conducted to investigate the probability of a correct…