The article examines the definition of mathematically gifted, discusses current practices within the field of special education for this population, and calls for an identification procedure which includes qualitative information concerning students' higher-order reasoning skills. (Author/CL)

The author identifies potential factors contributing to confusion over the meaning of rehabilitation, as well as how they affect fulfillment of educational, practice, and credentialing ideals in the field. Recommendations are made to return to a traditional definition of "recovery and restoration" and for specialty descriptors to precede the…

Presents eight definitions of "policy" that are implied in the literature and, by applying these definitions in three policy arenas, notes their differential effects in terms of policy questions, data collected, data sources, methodology, and policy products. (MLF)

Critiques seven reports produced by the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) between 1916 and 1934 to establish authoritative definitions for specialized aeronautical terms, and indicates pitfalls of using committee-prescribed definitions rather than studying how terms are actually used to determine what is considered good usage by…

Although the importance of validity has long been accepted among quantitative researchers, this concept has been an issue of contention among qualitative researchers. Thus, the first purpose of this paper is to provide a comprehensive discussion of the different ways that validity has been defined. Second, an argument is provided that in order for…

It can be argued that education was rather late in adopting and responding to postmodernism. A reason for education to engage with postmodernism can be related to the educational project which was closely connected to some of the central ideas of modernity and a central element of modernism and modernization. For some, postmodernism implies…

A number of basic terms have been selected as the starting point for a project of defining terms which are important in communicating about computer and information science. (14 references) (Author/SJ)

Presents another definition of the field of industrial arts. (SB)

Author discusses the meaning of the word Anglo-American'' and what the hyphen meant when it first entered the English language. (Author/CB)

Describes some of the subtleties involved in entrepreneurial training and in the daily activities of an entrepreneur. (AN)

Describes an approach to drug education utilizing pharmacological principles as a base. Presented to the Council on Drugs of the American School Health Association, Philadelphia, 1969. (KH)