The beginning of the teacher center concept in other countries can be specifically pinpointed in time and place, but the origins of teacher centers in America can be traced to a) post-World War II laboratory schools; b) state and federal legislation of the 1960s and early 70s; c) cries of outrage at American education in both the professional and…

This report combines and summarizes four 1972 student studies of some of the relationships between the University of California, Berkeley subject catalog and the Library of Congress (LC) subject authority list. It was found that about 1 0/0 of the subject headings used at Berkeley were out of date according to the LC list. About 5 0/0 of the…

The paper reports on a series of programs that have been developed at the Moore School to process data-bases, consisting of textual items, and to index and arrange the data items in accordance with an automatically generated classification system. The programs produce the directories and the rearranged data-base on microfilm, where it may be…

The symposium was attended by representatives of military psychology from seven nations and was hosted by the Centre De Recherches Des Facteurs, Humains, Forces Armees Belges. The primary purpose was to provide a forum to enhance the exchange of information about research in the field of military psychology. The agenda of the symposium included…

This publication is concerned with two major questions: What does the paraprofessional do? and How should a paraprofessional be trained? The duties of the paraprofessional are described as clerical, monitorial, and reinforcing of instruction, and these tasks may be either non-interacting (performed with things rather than persons), or interacting…

Suggestions for studying the topic of variation of individuals and objects (balls) to help develop elementary school students' measurement, comparison, classification, evaluation, and data collection and recording skills are made. General suggestions of variables that can be investigated are made for the study of human variation. Twelve specific…

This study was designed to identify the rules used by children when grouping science-related objects into subsets and to compare these rules among children of different ages, sex, ability level, and neighborhood type. The rules used by children were also compared to those conventionally used in science. One rural school, one suburban school, and…

The Vocational Education Amendments of 1968 require the expenditure of 25 percent of the basic grant to States to provide the disadvantaged and the handicapped with vocational education programs. This publication discusses the specific requirements of the federal law and describes classification systems for identifying the disadvantaged and…

Designed as a reference to contemporary evaluation approaches, this monograph brings together a variety of old and new frameworks and ideas about evaluation and shows how they are related to one another. Section I provides an overview of the contemporary evaluation scene. Section III presents summaries of over 50 approaches to evaluation from a…

This document is the reference source for the cross-classification of presently authorized University of Georgia major field codes, codes for degrees granted within those major fields, and the Higher Education Information System (HEGIS) code structure. The appendix contains a taxonomy of instructional programs in higher education developed by the…

In Part I of this paper certain epistemological considerations are reviewed as a source of suggestions on bases that might be used in classifying research, and the problem of validity of knowledge is discussed. In Part II the attempt to apply these bases and the attempts to answer the particular questions concerning clinical intervention are…

Two groups of 32 educable mentally retarded children (ages 7 to 14 years) were compared as to their arithmetic and classification performances attributable to the presence or absence of a 4 1/2 week exposure to classification tasks. The randomized block pretest-posttest design was used. The experimental group and the control group were matched on…

Research on the effectiveness of graphical displays for information acquisition and retention lacks a system for classifying graph information and generating test items to assess learning. The purpose of this study was to validate a system based on two types of information and three types of informational units. Results of an analysis of variance…

Through a comprehensive critical review of the empirical literature on health services utilization, there has been developed: (1) a classification of health services utilization, (2) a list of operational indices commonly used to measure each type of use. (3) a summary of the most powerful predictors of various types of use, and (4) a numbered…

The investigation sought to prove that retarded conceptualization behavior of deaf children can be improved by specific compensatory experiences in the manipulation of objects. Twenty-six deaf children of normal intelligence but deficient in language as determined by reading achievement level, ages 10-13 years, were randomly assigned to…