The thesaurus is intended to clarify and standardize terminology used to index instructional materials for exceptional children within the Special Education Instructional Materials Centers/Regional Media Centers Network. Although most of the approximately 1100 terms are descriptors selected from the thesaurus of the Educational Resources…

For information storage and retrieval, a thesaurus is used during indexing and searching processes to translate from natural language into a more restricted retrieval system language. The purpose of this thesaurus is to control the language used to index and retrieve documents of interest to Social and Rehabilitation Service (SRS) and the…

The purpose was to evaluate the effectiveness of a geometry course for preservice elementary teachers and, at the same time, to validate the assumptions that the arrangement of categories in Bloom's "Taxonomy" is hierarchical and cumulative. Sixty-two preservice elementary education majors took an investigator-constructed achievement…

There are substantial differences in the interests of men and women, reflected by their answers to vocational interest inventories. These differences are not trivial; they persist even in samples of men and women selected for occupational equivalence. The content of the sex differences is diverse. Lumping these differences together into one…

This research studied the effectiveness of a taxonomy of literature and specific arts upon aspects of functional and creative reading in secondary school students. Two experimental groups (taxonomy and enrichment) and one control group (traditional) were used. All of the students in the study were pretested with tests measuring creative and…

Accessibility to the content of a curriculum materials collection is primarily determined by the simplicity of the classification scheme used to organize the materials in the collection. The classification system utilized to organize such a collection should structure and arrange materials in such a fashion that the patrons can serve themselves…

The primary objective of the Task Force on Space and Utilization was to prepare a building space and utilization guide that could serve as a key element in the development of a formula for the allocation of capital funds to the Ontario universities. Part 1 of the Task Force report presents a brief history of the development of capital financing…

This 25-page manual has been prepared to assist the librarian and audiovisual director in setting up a filmstrip collection. It contains all the information needed to organize a collection from start to finish - uses and advantages of filmstrips, sources, evaluation, cataloging and classification, filing rules, promotion, and equipment. Both the…

Adult continuing education instructional activities in higher education are and will continue to become even more difficult to describe and define. The Western Interstate Commission on Higher Education Program Classification Structure, designed to provide a consistent means of identifying and organizing the activities of higher education in a…

A list of books is presented as typifying the textbooks used in California schools. It is pointed out that these books fail to nurture a sense of respect and understanding for children of minority group cultures. The textbooks were classified into the following categories: (1) Books in compliance with the State Education Code Sections 8553, 8576,…

An approach to analyzing and evaluating strategies for teaching science concepts at the first-year university level based on B. O. Smith and co-workers' conceptual framework of teaching was explored. The study assumed that teaching is a type of goal-directed activity. Specifically, this paper offers a description of a methodology for analyzing and…

Presented is a guide to the faceted classification scheme of the library collection at the Institute of Librarianship of the University of Ibadan. The collection covers librarianship in many countries as well as a number of marginal subjects, and is accumulated with specific regard to the Institute's courses. The scheme is small, and in its…

This edition combines two previous publications of the Katharine Dexter McCormick Library into one volume: the Family Planning Library Manual, a guide for starting a family planning and population library or information center, and the Family Planning Classification, a coding system for organizing book and non-book materials so that they can be…

This report consists of a classification of elementary school age children and information concerning an Educational Grouping Questionnaire, which is designed to help the classroom teacher group her students. (See TM 001 368 for example of questionnaire; see TM 001 363 for summary of report; for other related documents, see TM 001 160, 364-366,…

The purposes of this directory are to provide a ready reference for individuals and organizations with rural interests; to provide a sense of perspective on the various professions, ethnic groups, and special concerns represented by national organizations with rural interests; and to facilitate cooperation among organizations with similar…