Described is a system (created by the Great Lakes Region Special Education Instructional Materials Center) for classifying auditory learners and matching them to appropriate auditory learning experiences. The learner classification system outlined utilizes an organizational table that accommodates five learner variables (mental age, chronological…

This guide is designed to assist Federal and State agencies, local school authorities, and other personnel concerned with planning or equipping school food service facilities. The document indicates the minimum quantity of equipment needed to efficiently operate a school food service by specifying the type, size, and quantity of equipment required…

Children's performance on multidimensional classification tasks was examined in two experiments. In Experiment 1, preschool, first-, and third-grade children were shown a standard stimulus and were then asked to judge whether several comparison stimuli were the same as or different from the standard. Comparison stimuli differed from the standard…

Eleven indexes of rurality and their effect on the classification of Michigan's 83 counties were investigated. The indexes were based on different concepts of rurality: (1) percent of employment in agriculture, fishing, and forestry; (2) population density and distance to urban centers; and (3) economic conditions. Index rankings were compared to…

The present volume is intended as an introductory textbook in field analysis of unstudied languages. Chapters discuss (1) language and sound systems; (2) taxonomy and its uses; (3) characterization and breath, rhythmic, syllabic, and phonetic segments; (4) frames; (5) segments; (6) discrimination; (7) classification; (8) matching; and (9)…

The standardization and evaluation of methods of performance assessment represents an important area of concern. In this paper an approach that concentrates on two critical areas and the relationship between them is discussed. These are: (1) a task classification system; and (2) a performance measure classification system. An example is presented…

This document presents two kinds of data, gathered from several State reports, that pertain to higher education facilities. The first type of data reflects the standards and space utilization forecast used in planning higher education facilities; the second provides information about the utilization of existing facilities. Planning standards are…

The needs and capabilities of 4-year-old Head Start children were considered in development of classification and attention training curricula, including: (1) sensory exploration through object manipulation, (2) variety of high-interest materials, (3) change of pace during the lesson, (4) presentation of learning activities as games, (5) relating…

This paper relates racial allocation among and within schools to student behavior, attitudes, and test performance. The main objectives were (1) to relate grouping procedures to specific performance and behavioral criteria, and to attitudinal and perceptual responses of students, including their college plans; and (2) to examine the combined…

This book brings together articles by educators, geographers, social scientists, and those whose competence and interests cross two or more of these fields. Geography as a discipline has played an important part in social studies/social science education. These chapters are representative of current thinking on many facets of the interaction among…

It is pointed out that change in rural education has been slow to occur but that attention to change strategies can hasten the process of change. Discussion includes a perusal of the literature, slow rate of diffusion in education, innovation from within or without, relating research to practice, typology of linking roles, change strategies, the…

This paperbound edition consists of a series of lessons to be used in an English language and conceptual development program for 4 to 5-year-old Spanish-speaking children. The overall goal of the lessons, designed for use with migrant children, is to provide the child with the language and conceptual skills he needs to benefit from a standard…

This collection of papers on the Binandere languages of New Guinea consists of: (1) "The Structure of the Binandere Verb," by A. Capell--sentence structure and verb structure; (2) "Preliminary Notes on Orokaiva Grammar," by A. Healey, A. Isoroembo, and M. Chittleborough--phonology, verbs, adverbs, nouns, adjectives, pronouns…

This study analyzes the Object Categorization Test (OCT) and the Picture Categorization Test (PCT) to provide (1) psychometric analysis of the tests, (2) substantive analysis detailing variation in performance level as a function of age, race, class, and sex, and (3) normative data yielding frequencies of various score patterns. Data was taken…

An account of the dictionaries, great and small, of the English-speaking world is given in this book. Subjects covered include the origin of English dictionaries, early dictionaries, Noah Webster and his successors to the present, abridged dictionaries, "The Oxford English Dictionary" and later dictionaries patterned after it, the…