Present study hypotehsized that deceptive activities characterize a pure competetive situation more than a mixed cooperative and competitive situation, and the latter more than a pure cooperative situation. (Author/RK)

Article discussed an instructors' educational reforms and his attempts to develop student individuality. (RK)

This study was conducted to determine if raters would use a single policy for determining the beauty of paintings and to demonstrate the JAN technique in an experiment where the predictors first had to be hypothesized and then a quantified measure ascribed to each. (Author/RK)

Discusses the need to standardize foreign language curricula to the extent that content for each of the four successive years of a language program is universally accepted. (DD)

Describes several well documented cases of Extra Sensory Perception (ESP), and discusses ways in which ESP experiments can be conducted in the science classroom to investigate telepathy, pyschokinesis, and clairvoyance. (JR)

Describes Follow Through, a program designed to develop and demonstrate alternative ways to reinforce and sustain Head Start benefits as children move through the elementary grades. (Author/RK)

The question to be answered in the study was: Are there significant differences in learning when students are presented organizers before the learning passages (pre-organizers), after the learning passages (post-organizers), or when they are presented only the learning passages (no-organizers)? (Author)

Looks at the arguments for and against education vouchers and compares a recent New Hampshire voucher program with an earlier voucher experiment in California. (DN)

Substantial alterations to a system often have little or no effect on particular collections. This may be due to poor separation of relevant and non-relevant documents. The paper presents a procedure for characterizing this separation, which can show whether proposed modifications of the base system are likely to be useful. (8 references)…

Retrieval performance with automatic term classifications for three test collections has been variable. This paper attempts to discover why. The real difference between the collections is in the separation of relevant from non-relevant documents. The separation is so poor that classification cannot be expected to succeed. (14 references)…

Ten laboratory exercises on optics are described to clarify concepts involving point objects and converging lenses producing real images. Mathematical treatment is kept to a minimum to stress concepts involved. (PS)

Based in part on an M.A. thesis presented to the University of Illinois by Mr. Harris; deixis refers to those words which have a demonstrative or pointing function, e.g., the pronouns this'' or that''. (DD)

Revised version of a paper presented at the December 27, 1972 meeting of the Linguistic Society of America in Atlanta, Georgia; research supported by the National Science Foundation. (DD)

Research supported by a Faculty Research Grant from the Social Science Research Council. (DD)