A classification of the sources of motivational conflicts found in college students seeking counseling for vocational problems was reported and applied to 82 vocational counseling cases. The major classification categories emphasize personality development and treat successive choice points as transitional periods in a continuous process.…

Discusses the importance of experiences with classification and seriation in aiding children to understand the concept of number. (GB)

Reports a study testing a hierarchical theory postulating that the literal reading comprehension process can be divided into separate skills that are distinguishably different from each other and which are hierarchically related. (TO)

The 4th installment of a Building Cost File discusses the various techniques used for the evaluation of design and planning alternatives. Includes a cost analysis of Kresge College (see EA 504 942). Other related articles are EA 503 949, EA 504 572, and EA 504 579. (Author/MLF)

Paper presented at a symposium on the preservation of the Spanish language in the U.S., August 7-10, 1973, Mexico City, Mexico. (SK)

The Georgia Tech Architecture Library slide collection is being revolutionized by adapting the Santa Cruz Slide Classification System. The slide catalog record is being transferred inexpensively to tapes and updated by the computer. Computer programs print out indexes in any of fifteen different sort fields. (Author)

The experience of the early 1970's, with a fairly constant number of poor, offers little hope that U.S. poverty will be soon eliminated. (DM)

A classification system for educational statistics, the International Standard Classification of Education, was created to compare statistics on adult education. However, it is necessary to untangle the terminology associated with adult education in order to utilize ISCED. Authors attempt to restate and refine terms and concepts for that purpose.…

One purpose of the present study was to investigate whether the presence or absence of background pictures would have differential effects on kindergarten children's free recall and whether such effects would be affected by the relationship between the test items and the backgrounds. (Authors)