Making and using needle-sort cards fosters logical thinking, facilitates accumulation of factual knowledge in geography and can be applied students at any grade level. (JH)

Intended for use in collecting data on secondary school course offerings, this inventory of courses taught nationwide at the secondary level is organized in a classified arrangement. Each course is identified by a six-digit numerical code. The inventory of course titles was developed from three major sources--a sample of 52 public and private…

THIS REPORT PRESENTS THE RESULTS OF THE JOINT PLANNING COMMITTEE OF INDIANA UNIVERSITY AND PURDUE UNIVERSITY IN TERMS OF THE AMOUNT AND TYPE OF SPACE THAT WILL BE REQUIRED BY 1965 AND BY 1972 IN A FACILITY TO BE JOINTLY OCCUPIED BY THE TWO UNIVERSITIES AT FORT WAYNE. IN GENERAL, A SIX-STEP PROCEDURE WAS FOLLOWED--(1) EACH INSTITUTION,…

THIRTY-FOUR TEACHERS OF GRADES ONE THROUGH SIX WERE ASKED TO REPORT THE CHANGES IN READING GROUP COMPOSITION IN THEIR CLASSROOMS OVER A PERIOD OF 17 WEEKS. TWENTY-SIX TEACHERS HAD AT LEAST 3 YEARS OF EXPERIENCE AND WERE SUPERVISING STUDENT TEACHERS. THE OTHER EIGHT HAD 2 YEARS OF EXPERIENCE AND HAD COMPLETED A GRADUATE COURSE IN READING. THEY WERE…

THE ESTABLISHMENT OF EVALUATIVE CRITERIA FOR GUIDANCE OBJECTIVES IS AFFECTED BY THREE MAJOR CONSIDERATIONS--(1) SPECIFYING GUIDANCE OBJECTIVES, (2) TRANSLATING THESE OBJECTIVES INTO DESIRED BEHAVIORAL OUTCOMES, AND (3) MEASURING AND REPORTING THESE BEHAVIORAL OUTCOMES. THE MAJOR PROBLEM IS FINDING UNIVERSALLY ACCEPTABLE OBJECTIVES WHICH ARE…

THE DEFINITION OF CLASSES OF AREA WITHIN BUILDINGS IS DEALT WITH IN THIS STUDY. THE OBJECTIVE OF THE STUDY WAS TO EVALUATE EXISTING METHODS OF CATEGORIZING AREAS IN BUILDINGS, FOR PERTINENCY TO THE REQUIREMENTS OF FEDERAL AGENCIES. A TASK GROUP OF SPECIALLY QUALIFIED INDIVIDUALS WAS NAMED BY THE OPERATING COUNCIL TO UNDERTAKE THE STUDY WHICH LED…

This study attempted to determine the influence of Hindu epistemology on Ranganathan's Colon Classification. Only the epistemological schools of Hindu philosophy and the Idea Plane element of Colon Classification were included. A literature search revealed that, although there is significant literature on each side of the problem, no bridges exist…

The emerging Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) is reviewed, focusing on those areas that are particularly relevant to the occupational needs of the National Technical Institute for the Deaf (NTID). Areas covered are scope, structure, and language. The following major points are made about the three areas: The scope of SOC accommodates…

The Committee to Revise the 1959 Standards for College Libraries found that great differences existed among colleges in objectives, size, and program breadth, and that library standards should reflect those differences. Therefore, several higher education classification schemes were examined for their applicability to the committee's needs. Two…

Techniques for automatic recognition of isolated words are investigated, and a computer simulation of a word recognition system is effected. Considered in detail are data acquisition and digitizing, word detection, amplitude and time normalization, short-time spectral estimation including spectral windowing, spectral envelope approximation,…

Four instructional strategies for promoting the acquisition of infinite concept classes were investigated. Three independent variables were 1) probability level of exemplars and nonexemplars determined by the number of students in a separate sample who correctly classify the instance as an exemplar or a nonexemplar; 2) matching of an exemplar to a…

The purpose of this publication is to modify and update the list of discipline specialties in the Higher Education General Information Survey (HEGIS) questionnaires and to make the list sufficiently flexible and comprehensive for adaptation to overall institutional recordkeeping, apart from HEGIS reporting. The taxonomy is divided in 2 sections:…

This document lists the indigenous languages of North and South America, with the exception of the Eskimo-Aleut languages, the European-based Creoles, and languages which represent Post-Columbian intrusions. Section I consists of genetic classification of the languages included (948 language-level entries). Section II is an alphabetic list of all…