Personal adjustment was not found to be related to sex-role category. The inability to demonstrate a relationship between maladjustment and the Personality Research Form typology raised the question whether sex-role affiliation is largely independent of factors regarded as suggestive of poor mental health. (Author)

Suggests the designation of overlapping hierarchies in thesauri, first outlined in 1973, as a key element in progress towards a successful man-machine partnership. Article updates, expands, and provides theoretical background of 1973 proposal; postulates use of the UDC; and suggests means of distinguishing overlapping terms from other…

Robust interference effects were found which declined with age. Manipulating discriminability of the relevant stimulus dimension resulted in large changes in sorting time, but interference effects did not vary with baseline difficulty. These results were interpreted as strongly supporting both an absolute decrement model and a developmental trend…

Explored the development of hierarchical classification and the age at which this ability appears fully developed. Two measures of hierarchical classification ability were administered to primary, elementary, junior high and high school students. Discusses results which support Piaget's contention that this ability is not developed until late…

Two major periods of development in proportional reasoning are identified by analysis of a 23-item experiment given to subjects between 6 and 16 years of age. (MP)

Presents a method to improve client classification. Reviews clinical prediction models and statistical prediction issues. In classifying clients for remedial services, utility of the prediction scheme depends on gains accrued by its use over program base rates and relative cost. This assumes that differential treatments parallel diagnostic…

Two implications of best-example theory for category acquisition were tested using a set of artificial concrete object categories. Categories acquired from initial exposure to good exemplars were learned more easily and accurately. People learn the best exemplars are category members before learning the poor exemplars are category members.…

With psychometric tests (that is, norm-referenced tests), nearly all scores fall into one of three categories: those based on comparison with an absolute standard; those based on inter-individual comparison; or those based on intra-individual comparison. These are described and all commonly used metrics are discussed. (Author/RL)

Presents a classification system for freshman orientation courses formulated from reviews of current practices of colleges and universities. Characteristic features and analogous programs are presented as a descriptive guide and planning tool for student personnel staff who must respond to changing needs of freshman and their interface with…

Argues that movements employ a series of strategic guiding "topoi" and examines activism, antagonism, agonism, and futurism. Concludes that when all four rhetorical topoi are present an "avant-garde" movement of radical proportions exists. (JMF)

Errors of misclassification and their effects on categorical data analysis are discussed. The chi-square test for equality of two proportions is examined in the context of errorful categorical data. The effects of such errors are illustrated. A correction procedure is developed and discussed. (Author/MH)

A 12-item stimulus list composed of three conceptual categories, each with two low- and two high- associated word pairs, was presented for free Ss recall to 20 educable mentally retarded (EMR) preadolescents, 20 EMR adolescents, and 20 nonretarded fourth-grade children who showed associative clustering in accordance with preexperimental interitem…

Explores the utility of reciprocal two-point code type classifications of Personality Inventory for Children (PIC) profiles and evaluates a second classification scheme based upon groupings of empirically and conceptually similar PIC code types. Results indicate a profile classification strategy can be usefully applied to PIC protocols. (Author)

This article describes the Annehurst Curriculum Classification System (ACCS), which classifies both learners and curriculum materials according to multiple characteristics, so that materials can be matched to the individual student. This retrieval system is adaptable to a card file, for single classrooms, or to computer retrieval for resource…