In researching educational change, an analytical tool for analyzing and coding change process interventions has been produced. This paper describes the development of the coding system, the intervention assumptions underlying it, the dimensions and kinds of interventions, with illustrative examples of each, activities for clustering some…

The Biglan model, a theoretical framework for empirically examining the differences among subject areas, classifies according to three dimensions: adherence to common set of paradigms (hard or soft), application orientation (pure or applied), and emphasis on living systems (life or nonlife). Tests of the model are reviewed, and a further test is…

The relationship between higher cognitive teacher questions and the nature of the cognitive thought processes involved in the student answers was investigated. Literature was reviewed, resulting in the selection of Blooms Taxonomy, and the Aschner and Gallagher, Smith and Meux systems for classifying higher cognitive thought processes. A pilot…

Data describing campus facility use for instructional and related purposes for one week of activity in Fall 1978 were collected and evaluated at Kalamazoo Valley Community College. Four measures of space utilization were used: (1) percent of available time used; (2) percent of available space used; (3) percent of scheduled space utilized; and (4)…

All 437 census occupational titles were assigned scores from the following five systems for describing occupations: (1) Holland's (1973) occupational typology; (2) an occupational prestige scale; (3) an occupational self-direction scale; (4) the "Dictionary of Occupational Titles"; and (5) the Census Bureau classification. Occupational…

The design and implementation of a complete, computerized retrieval system for the engineering and architectural drawings and maps of several large land development firms are discussed. Such collections present unique problems to the cataloger. Each collection is limited in geographic scope to the land owned or developed by the firm; types of maps…

This taxonomy is designed to be used by teachers who are preparing New York state students to take the Tests of General Educational Development (GED). The skills included in this taxonomy are representative of those skills which must be mastered in order to pass the reading skills test of the current six-hour GED. Educational objectives in the…

Much research in the area of person perception has dealt with the problem of how people organize information about other people, including how familiarity mediates the cognitive organization of person information. One multi-operational investigation found that information sets about familiar people, as opposed to unfamiliar people, resulted in the…

A REPORT OF A CONFERENCE ON RESEARCH IN SPEECH AND HEARING FOR MENTALLY RETARDED CHILDREN IS PRESENTED. THE MAIN AREAS INCLUDED ARE THEORETICAL APPROACHES TO LANGUAGE AND COMMUNICATION, PROCEDURES FOR MEASURING LANGUAGE, AND SPECIAL METHODS FOR TREATMENT. SPECIFIC REPORTS GIVEN ARE--"PSYCHOLINGUISTICS IN THE STUDY OF MENTAL RETARDATION"…

COLLEGE OBJECTIVES WERE REDEFINED AND STUDENT CHANGE EXAMINED TO DETERMINE WHETHER--(1) STUDENTS CHANGE IN COLLEGE, (2) WHEN AND WHERE CHANGE OCCURS, AND (3) DEVELOPMENTAL PRINCIPLES WHICH COULD APPLY TO STUDENT CHANGE TO FACILITATE DECISIONS. DEFINITIONAL ACTIVITIES YIELDED SIX MAJOR SUBCATEGORIES OF BEHAVIORS AND STUDENT CHARACTERISTICS--GOAL…

THE DEVELOPMENT OF CRITICAL THINKING ABILITIES IS A PERVASIVE AND IMPORTANT OBJECTIVE OF AMERICAN SECONDARY AND HIGHER EDUCATION. ALTHOUGH CRITICAL THINKING ABILITIES HAVE RECEIVED RECOGNITION AS WORTHY EDUCATIONAL GOALS, FEW STUDY GROUPS AND EVEN FEWER TEACHERS ARE ABLE TO DEFINE THE MEANS OF INSTRUCTION THROUGH WHICH SUCH GOALS ARE REALIZED. IN…

THIS VOLUME IS THE COMPANION TO "VOLUME I, CLASSICAL AND MEDIEVAL INDIA," AND IS DESIGNED TO ACCOMPANY COURSES DEALING WITH INDIA, PARTICULARLY THOSE COURSES USING THE "CIVILIZATION OF INDIA SYLLABUS" (BY THE SAME AUTHOR AND PUBLISHERS, 1965). VOLUME II CONTAINS THE FOLLOWING SELECTIONS--(1) "INDIA AND WESTERN…

AN ATTEMPT WAS MADE TO DEVELOP A TAXONOMY OF OCCUPATIONS FOR VOCATIONAL COUNSELORS. A REVIEW WAS MADE OF THE PROFESSIONAL RESEARCH LITERATURE RELATING TO OCCUPATIONAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL VARIABLES POTENTIALLY USEFUL TO A TAXONOMY. EFFORTS WERE MADE TO RECONCILE THE FINDINGS WITH DATA OBTAINED PREVIOUSLY THROUGH THE JOB ANALYSIS AND INTEREST…

A study was conducted to determine whether interjudge reliabilities on assignments of comprehension questions to the Barrett Taxonomy categories could be attained and whether the taxonomy could be used as a criterion to assess varying levels of reading comprehension questions in various reading textbooks. A total of 623 questions from three fourth…

This report proposes a pioneering diagnostic taxonomy of adult career problems, describes its development, and documents the results of a pilot test using a preliminary design to validate the taxonomy. The report is based on a study which had four major activities: a literature review of adult career development and pertinent taxonomies, a…