A known-groups design was used to determine the classification accuracy of Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale-III (WAIS-III) variables in detecting malingered neurocognitive dysfunction (MND) in traumatic brain injury (TBI). TBI patients were classified into the following groups: (a) mild TBI not-MND (n = 26), (b) mild TBI MND (n = 31), and (c)…

Universities have rushed to expand their delivery of courses through e-learning environments. But is e-learning effective? The authors conducted an exploratory study to evaluate e-learning through WebCT on the basis of Bloom's taxonomy. The authors distributed 75 questionnaires to investigate whether individual or instructional factors play an…

The scope of the present study was first to evaluate the cross-cultural reliability and validity of the Social Emotional Questionnaire (SEQ) and second to estimate and compare the prevalence rates of childhood developmental and psychiatric disorders in the general population of young children in the Netherlands and Greece. To this end, the…

We examined categorical speech perception in school-age children with developmental dyslexia or Specific Language Impairment (SLI), compared to age-matched and younger controls. Stimuli consisted of synthetic speech tokens in which place of articulation varied from "b" to "d". Children were tested on categorization, categorization in noise, and…

Geometry, classification, and the classification of geometrical objects are integral aspects of recent curriculum documents in mathematics education. Such curriculum documents, however, leave open how the "work" of classifying objects according to geometrical properties can be accomplished given that the knowledge of these properties is the…

Gist identification or coherent situation model construction performance is an important criterion not only in L1 and L2 reading comprehension assessment but also in every aspect of discourse processing. Whereas most previous L2 research has investigated schematic knowledge of readers about relations within a text, more recent studies have used…

A classification scheme for international, intergovernmental organizations in use in the University of Virginia's main library is described briefly. (Author)

A classification system for librarians at the University of Western Ontario has four general and five ranking factors in position classification. A matrix was developed using these factors on a vertical axis and the desired number of positions on a horizontal axis. Existing professional positions were analyzed in terms of the matrix. (Author/LS)

A CONTENT ANALYSIS OF THE LITERATURE ON MENTAL RETARDATION GROUPED TERMS INTO FIVE CATEGORIES--GENERAL TERMS, ETIOLOGICAL TERMS, TERMS CONCERNED WITH DEGREE OF RETARDATION, EDUCATIONAL TERMS, AND LEGAL TERMS. FOR EACH GROUP, DISCUSSION SUMMARIZES DEFINITION, PRESENTS AREAS OF AGREEMENT AND DISAGREEMENT, AND POINTS UP ISSUES AND PROBLEMS. A TABLE…

The reprint of a 1980 article concerns issues of classification in international sports competitions for the disabled. Proposed is a system which would reduce classification categories even if fewer individuals were to win medals. (DB)

The 1983 definition and classification of mental retardation of the American Association on Mental Deficiency reflects positions of the Council for Exceptional Children's Mental Retardation division by raising the ceiling IQ for classification, abandoning the standard deviation as a measurement criterion, and providing flexibility in IQ scores at…

The private and professional life of Henry Bliss, with emphasis on his study of classification and production of the Bibliographic Classification scheme. (LS)

A method has been developed for the automatic classification of chemical structures and it has been tested by applying it to the common naturally occurring amino acids. The resulting classification is reasonable from a qualitative viewpoint. (9 references) (Authors)