Examined 80 children in second and fourth grades on melodic and rhythmic discrimination and classification tasks. Found evidence to support the existence of internal representations of tonality and meter in both groups, as well as evidence of a developmental effect for the classification task. (EAJ)

Children 3.5 to 5 years old were asked to judge which of several possible sets of parts matched a configured target form and to copy the target forms. Found a significant association between age and performance on the perception task and consistency across the two tasks. (MDM)

The use of appropriateness measurement for identifying dishonest respondents on personality tests was studied through analysis of datasets of 48,725 and 1,987 in which respondents were instructed to answer honestly or dishonestly. An item response theory approach to detecting faking classified a higher number of faking respondents than did a…

Developed a taxonomy of teen-identified problematic heterosocial situations through 10 same-sex focus groups involving 58 adolescents. Results suggest the importance of romantic relationships in the lives of participating adolescents and show the range of situations identified in addition to dating. (SLD)

Five- and 6-year-olds heard stories in which a character sorted items into two locations. Found that children could reject a report of the character's belief when the character had a false belief more easily than a belief in which an object known to the character was described using an unknown term. Children found it easier to predict incorrect…

Two studies examined whether object names and functions act as cues to categories for infants. Findings indicated that both 14- and 18-month-olds were more likely to select the category match after being shown a novel category exemplar with its function than when given no additional cues. Only at 18 months did naming the objects enhance…

Despite the interest that second-language students show for learning a foreign language, many of them do not possess the motivation to conclude successfully their course of foreign language study. In the search of an explanation for this apparent contradiction, the concepts of "interest" and "motivation" must be re-defined. (AP)

This typology of alternative forms of mentoring has two dimensions: (1) form of relationship (lateral/hierarchical) and (2) type of skill development (job or career related). Mentoring forms discussed include intra- and interteam, coworker, survivor, peer, internal and external collegial, internal and external sponsor, manager-subordinate, and…

A study of the effect of the number of item response categories on chi-square statistics for confirmatory factor analysis indicates that the chi-square statistic for evaluating a single-factor model is most inflated for two-category responses and becomes less inflated as the number of categories increases. (SLD)

Grounded theory framed site visits to four high school education-for-work programs. The resulting typology depicted essential attributes of curriculum at program and classroom levels, including mutual support among elements, enhanced learning environment, collective participation in career development, and systems approach. (SK)

Human resource development (HRD) is an evolving system, a confluence of disciplines with its own professional identity. Understanding HRD as an evolving system enables professional practice and theory development to emerge within the context of existing taxonomies. (SK)

Discusses automatic document classification and document retrieval systems and presents a strategy for building a morphological machine dictionary of English that infers meaning of derivations by considering morphological affixes and their semantic classification. Proposes a method for selecting compound field association terms from a large pool…

Four experiments investigated whether 9-month-olds could use the presence of labels to help them establish a representation of two distinct objects in a complex object individuation task. Found that the presence of two distinct labels facilitated object individuation, but presence of one label for both objects, two distinct tones, two distinct…

This study examined whether 9.5-month-olds could use featural information to individuate objects. Results suggest that infants categorize events involving opaque and transparent occluders as the same kind of situation and that infants are more likely to give evidence of individuation when they need to reason about one kind of event than when they…

Using analyses of essay papers and classroom discussion responses, compared different educational taxonomies for measuring students' cognitive learning outcomes: Structure of the Observed Learning Outcomes (SOLO), Bloom's taxonomy, and a reflective thinking measurement model. Found that SOLO is suitable for measuring different kinds of learning…