This study has focused on the use of language in the United Republic of Cameroon and on individual bilingualism with consideration of the social and political repercussions of social practices and educational policy. (RK)

Describes the decisionmaking system in an organization when the organization's two supervisors make a concerted move to take over more control of that system. (Author/WM)

Two experiments were conducted to determine whether the auditory and visual systems process simultaneously presented pairs of alphanumeric information differently. (Editor)

For the last 10 years, the Duval County School System (Jacksonville, Florida) has accumulated extensive student performance data with its district-wide criterion referenced testing program (the Essential Skills Test for K-6 students and the Minimum Level Skills Test for grades 7-12), which tests over 100,000 students yearly. The research project…

This document contains reproducible black and white materials for teaching about the 1990 United States census. There are maps, charts, and graphs of population projections by region; historical census data; projections of populations changes; world population; minority population figures; age charts; number of dependents; housing units;…

Designed as a teaching script to introduce adults to computer operation and programming, this manual can also be used for self-instruction on Apple II or Apple IIe computers. BASIC programming language is used in the following lessons: (1) "Running the Machine, Print Command"; (2) "Giving the Computer Information"; (3)…

A model is described that was developed to train future learning disabilities specialists to select and execute diagnostic prescriptive strategies. A series of flowcharts depict the diagnostic-prescriptive model from point of referral, specifying steps for the process in language and readings. The sequence of tasks illustrate critical decisions…

This report discusses the use of the Science Citation Index produced by the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) as a given "expert system" in the experimental study of different search levels. The inquiry has two objectives: (1) to test whether a "traditional" information system will also produce the rudiments of a…

This paper summarizes the findings of a 1976 national survey on usage of paper-to-paper photocopying machines in the U.S. libraries, which was conducted by King Research, Inc. for the National Commission on Libraries and Information Science, the National Science Foundation, and the National Commission on New Technological Uses of Copyrighted Works…

Designed to assist in the construction of flowcharts and scripts for videotex production, this document presents a detailed look at the instructional design and production of educational videotex. Included are: a flowchart of the videotex development process; hints for effective flowcharting and script development, including frame development;…

The present research was carried out in order to determine if, in fact, the performance of anxiety-prone individuals under stress could be improved by instructing them that they have personal control over a stressor. (Author)

The present experiments test two plausible interpretations of the effect of frequency on relative recency judgments. (Editor)

Paper presented at the 1973 TESOL Convention in San Juan, Puerto Rico. (HW)

The purpose of this paper is to present a systems approach to career selection. Although primarily intended for counseling adults, it should also be applicable to high school and college level individuals. The systems model identifies three groups of individuals who need career counseling: (1) program-selected individuals; (2)…