MOST OF THE KRIO FOLKLORE AND LITERATURE TRANSCRIBED IN THIS VOLUME HAS NEVER BEFORE APPEARED IN PRINT. IT IS INTENDED FOR THE PEOPLE OF SIERRA LEONE THEMSELVES, AS WELL AS FOR PERSONS WHO WISH TO LEARN MORE ABOUT WEST AFRICAN CULTURE AND THE KRIO LANGUAGE. INCLUDED IN THE FOLKLORE RECORDED HERE ARE PROVERBS, RIDDLES, AND FOLK TALES GATHERED IN…

ON THE BASIS OF A REVIEW OF DOCUMENTS IN THE ERIC CLEARINGHOUSE FOR JUNIOR COLLEGE INFORMATION, THE AUTHOR CONCLUDED THAT THERE IS NEED FOR MORE INFORMATION ON THE ROLE AND FUNCTION OF CLASSROOM TESTS IN JUNIOR COLLEGES. SHE SUGGESTS THE NEED FOR INTERCHANGE OF IDEAS AND REPORTS OF PRACTICES, AND CITES AS EXAMPLES REPORTS IN THE CLEARINGHOUSE…

With the scholarly record growing faster than funds to employ individuals in libraries to process materials for storage and distribution, libraries must use electronic data processing equipment to distribute such information. The electronic world, however, requires that different interinstitutional relationships be established. Although the…

Alaska is recognized as one of the major world centers of native art and expression. In the 18th century certain areas of Alaska were the most densely populated areas of the New World. Once the native people had made the necessary adaptations in clothing, housing, transportation and hunting, they were able to live without hardship. With an…

In a study of factors that influence evaluators' ratings of student papers, 32 student essays were rewritten to make them stronger or weaker in content, organization, sentence structure, or mechanics; the essays were then submitted to evaluators in both their original and rewritten forms to determine the way in which the changes influenced the…

Student evaluations of an instructor who uses objective tests exclusively are here compared to evaluations of the same instructor using classroom tests which combine objective and subjective test formats. Class size and hour and manner of instruction were held constant; students were chosen at random by the computer registration process. The…

The consistency across time and readers of the scoring of National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) open-ended exercises was examined. The procedure studied is a nominal categorical scoring. Ten readers independently read 28 sample responses to each of 12 open-ended exercises at three different times. All ten readers agreed on their…

Designed for use by composition students as well as teachers, the essays and background discussions in this book address themselves to questions of theory and practice in rhetoric. The book is divided into sections on invention, form, and style, and contains articles by such authors as Janet Emig, Wayne C. Booth, Richard L. Larson, Kenneth Burke,…

The purpose of the essay is to place "Project One Hundred Thousand" in context with the antecedents of this basic educational program, to provide insight to existing operational characteristics, and to determine what can be seen now concerning this type of U. S. Army effort in the future. The essay concludes that to meet the emerging…

(1) What is learned in a particular subject matter? (2) Who learns it? (3) How does competence develop? (4) And how is learning assessed and optimized? These are the questions asked and answered in this essay. (1) The relationships between units of learning establish the subject matter structures that are learned; e.g., concepts, rules,…

One of a series of works aimed at presenting contemporary critical opinion on major authors, this collection includes essays by Dorothy Van Ghent, Marvin Mudrick, Mark Schorer, Harry T. Moore, Julian Moynahan, Monroe Engel, Graham Hough, Mark Spilka, W. D. Snodgrass, V. de S. Pinto, Arthur E. Waterman, Richard Foster, and Raymond Williams--all…

The essays in this collection touch upon most of the major themes in Fitzgerald's work and upon his strengths and weaknesses as a writer. In selecting materials an attempt was made to focus upon recent critical articles, to avoid reprinting articles already available in other collections, and to refrain from using portions of books. Articles…

A critical symposium on science fiction, this book features essays (by Ben Bova, Frederik Pohl, George Zebrowski, Frank Herbert, Theodore Sturgeon, Alan E. Nourse, Thomas N. Scortia, Reginald Bretnor, James Gunn, Alexei and Cory Panshin, Poul Anderson, Hal Clement, Anne McCaffrey, Gordon R. Dickson, and Jack Williamson) dealing with such subjects…

The paradigm outlined in this paper is designed to aid in writing scenarios of alternative futures. Specifically the author outlines major conditions and processes in social life which should provide a scheme to be used in constructing or in criticizing scenarios developed by other methods. This scheme should provide assistance in several ways: 1)…

Proceedings of a special conference sponsored by the Soil Conservation Society of America, are compiled in this report. The conference served as a forum for those involved in land use planning and implementation at all levels of government and private enterprise. Comments were directed to four main topics: (1) Objectives and Need for a National…