This study demonstrates, in the area of individual intelligence test administration, how competency standards can be implemented in school psychology training. The paper sets up behavioral objectives, determines what training is required for specified levels of mastery, and shows what specific training procedures contribute to the achievement of…

The main features of a general-purpose experimental language are described, followed by an account of its implementation. (Author)

This paper describes a computational approach to certain problems of anaphora in natural language and argues in favor of formal meaning representation languages (MRLs) for natural language. After presenting arguments in favor of formal meaning representation languages, appropriate MRLs are discussed. Minimal requirements include provisions for…

Article revealed the handicaps that bilingual children have in taking intelligence tests in English as opposed to their mother tongue, Spanish. (RK)

Compares education matched young brain-damaged, young nonbrain-damaged, old brain-damaged and old nonbrain-damaged groups on a battery of measures of cognitive, perceptual, and motor skills. By factor analysis, the 26 original measures were reduced to four, called nonverbal memory, language ability, motor ability, and psychomotor problem solving.…

A model of natural language generation based on an underlying language-free representation of meaning is described. A computer implementation of this model, called BABEL, has been developed at Stanford University. It is able to produce sentence paraphrases which demonstrate understanding with respect to a given context. Available from Association…

The juridical climate now supports the position that all students are entitled to public schooling. Public schools have a responsibility not only to educate or train the retarded to achieve their potentialities, but to increase those potentialities, i.e., raise their intelligence levels. (Author/BJG)

Discusses how one's conception of intelligence and its development profoundly affects the formulation of educational objectives. A mechanistic conception of intelligence leads to the definition of objectives as a collection of fragmented "cognitive skills", while a Piagetian conception attempts to develop children's intelligence as an…

Results support the state-trait distinction in anxiety research. For two different samples, three separate A-State factors emerged, each associated with different occasions of measurement that were associated with differing amounts of situational stress. (Author/BJG)

Prompted by William W. Brickman's 20-year-old article, "Essentialism Ten Years After, School and Society, 67:361-362, May 15, 1948.