This paper presents a scheme for classifying learning tasks, a scale built from that scheme, and data obtained from utilizing the scale with secondary students in various subject areas. (Author/SJL)

The assumptions underlying the classfication rule-learning description of concept acquisition are critically examined. An alternative characterization of what it means to have a primacy hypothesis and Gibson's position that knowledge of the world is a product of direct perception are discusssed. (Author/RD)

College students read two passages. Four groups answered questions requiring either a summary, a new example of the concept, a list of critical attributes of the concept, or identification of a new example. The "identify post-question group" showed the greatest accuracy in classifying new examples. (Author/MH)

Described is a creative approach to the use of contact slides as a means of student participation in a learning unit on animal classification. The finished product is a slide presentation in which students themselves have made the slides and taped the narration. (CS)

The paper presents a consolidated criteria model which can be used to identify the discrepancy and severity level of learning disabled students. (Author/SBH)

The survey of 175 Florida teachers of the emotionally handicapped (EH) found that five characteristics were thought to be descriptive of mildly disturbed children and five were thought most descriptive of severely disturbed children, while no consensus was obtained with regard to the moderately disturbed category. (Author/DLS)

Confirms the previous suggestion that I-level and Verbal IQ are significantly related--for males, but not for females. The effect among males disappeared when age was introduced as a variable. Two of the variables, age and Verbal IQ, unexpectedly related strongly. (Author)

The author reviews some of the chemistry of scandium and indicates the problems associated with its classification. (Author/GA)

The purpose of this study was to determine whether undergraduates classified as high or low in sexual permissiveness could be differentiated using variables reflecting socioeconomic status, religious background, sexual behavior, and sexual knowledge. The derived discriminant functions were found to correctly classify 97.1 percent of the subjects.…

Focuses on different kinds of school and classroom organization for teaching reading at the preschool and primary levels. (AEA)

Subjective impressions are reported about a recent job classification process at a university and recommendations are offered. Personnel included in the classification study were executive, professional, and administrative staff members in each of the colleges, the library system, and the middle-level administration of the medium-sized school.…

Students in second and third grades were given instruction on sentential logic. Different approaches were used in 3 classrooms at each grade level and a classroom at each level served as a control group. Posttests included tests of classification, sentential logic, and perceptual reasoning; experimental students outperformed controls. (SD)

Tests a curriculum designed to teach fifth and sixth grade students system dynamics thinking, an orientation that is congruent with the fourth and fifth levels of Bloom's "Taxonomy of Educational Objectives: Cognitive Domain".

In two experiments on free and cued recall, spacing between categorically related items, presentation rate and category size were varied and the effects on recall of items as a function of their serial order were studied. Results suggest subjects organize material during acquisition by retrieving and rehearsing previously studied items. (CHK)

The present study examined the immediate and delayed effects of unobtrusive exposure to personality trait terms (e.g., "reckless,""persistent") on subjects' subsequent judgments and recollection of information about another person. The implications of individual and situational variation in the accessibility of different categories for judgments…