Study investigated the nature of elementary teachers' priorities of behaviorally stated objectives of instruction and the practice of these priorities in the classroom. (Author)

Ten- and 11-year-old boys and girls were taught to solve Inhelder and Piaget's pendulum problem and the results of the experiment replicated their expectation that unaided 10- and 11-year-olds do not often solve the pendulum problem. (Editor/RK)

Systems analysis, in this context, is not the process which is the necessary prelude to library automation; it is something more basic. It involves seeking out the fundamentals of a situation and applying scientific methods to their study, to find an optimal solution to the problems facing the manager. (20 references) (Author/TW)

The Regional Air Pollution Study (RAPS) to be conducted in St. Louis, is the largest air monitoring program of the Environmental Protection Agency. A key segment will be the collection of a data base on which this system of mathematical models can be tested and upon which submodels can be validated. (BL)

Procedures to be applicable in situations in which large numbers of individuals are tested or in situations where multiple measures are taken. (Author/CB)

The purpose of this paper is to attempt to operationalize a number of Gall's criteria in order to measure whether there is any empirical relationship between these criteria and the level of teacher questions. (Author)

This paper is concerned with the effects of test settings on the evaluation process. (Author)

The prototype verbal interaction recording technique described is used for studying individuals in small groups. A methodology for recording verbal interaction is developed in an effort to create a system for analyzing interpersonal and social forces in operation within groups. (SM)

A rebuttal to Lawrence M. Davis' Social Dialectology in America,'' Journal of English Linguistics, March 1970, p46-56. Special issue on Black Dialect: Historical and Descriptive Issues'' edited by William A. Stewart. (RS)

The School of Allied Medical Professions at The Ohio State University has developed job descriptions in occupational therapy, and is in the process of developing curriculum guides to educate for performance in these job descriptions. (Authors)

Report of a study on distance teaching,'' where teaching and learning occur in separate places; author feels the trend will be towards teaching students how to learn'' rather than specific subject matter. (SP)

Discusses the role of linguistics in relation to the study and treatment of linguistic disorders. (MM)

Institutions of higher education encounter greater problems than business in opening up for discussion the inner workings of the system designed to allocate resources and evaluate performance. (Editor/IR)

Argues that, to improve teacher education, the profession needs to formulate a coherent pedagogical theory of language which will enable . . . (educators) to understand how we learn and use the complex sumbol system we call language, how . . . language uses differ and how they cohere"; a paper presented at annual conference of National…