This is the first of two reports on existing measurement techniques for assessing characteristics of the home and educational environments and personal characteristics of children from birth to 9 years of age. In order to facilitate the use of currently available measures, tests have been categorized in terms of 10 broad areas and subcategorized…

A necessary but neglected step in teaching classification to inexperienced writers is list making and categorizing. Learning that step gives the untrained writer practical experience in learning that a good writer classifies for a purpose and that a relationship exists between the evidence, the categories, the outline, the paragraph, and the whole…

OUTLINED IN THIS ARTICLE IS AN APPROACH FOR DETERMINING LEVELS OF INCOME WHICH TYPIFY EQUIVALENT LEVELS OF POVERTY FOR FAMILIES IN DIFFERENT CIRCUMSTANCES. THE INDEX IS CONSTRUCTED WITH DESCRIPTIONS OF SUCH FAMILY CIRCUMSTANCES AS NUMBER AND AGE OF PERSONS AND GEOGRAPHICAL LOCATION. THE INDEX CAN BE USED TO DEFLATE FAMILY INCOME SO THAT IT IS…

This report presents the identification and definitions of subject oriented engineering and scientific disciplines and fields which are included in the EDIS Subject Categories. The discussion is extended to include the mix of subjects with other orientations, such as Item, Mission-Project, Expertise and Data Bank Categories. Sample queries are…

Presented is an annotated bibliography containing approximately 85 citations (1974-1976) on identification and assessment of handicaps in early childhood. Entries are arranged by accession number and usually provide the following information: author, title, source, date, pagination, availability (including Educational Resources Information Center…

Approximately 50 citations (1973 - 1976) are included in the annotated bibliography on identification and assessment of gifted children. Entries are arranged according to accession number and usually provide information on author, title, source, date, pagination, availability (including Educational Resources Information Center number when…

This document presents a programmed introduction to concepts of affective behavior according to the taxonomic analysis developed by Krathwohl for college education students. The main task the student is expected to perform upon completion of the program is to identify affective behaviors in each of Krathwohl's five levels. Nine subtasks are…

The regulation contains policy guidance, administrative procedures, and responsibilities for the operation and maintenance of the Military Occupational Data Bank (MODB). It revises a former regulation governing the MODB method of operation by revising the list of occupational data collection agencies and by providing expanded information…

Presented is a summary of the Final Report of the federally funded Project on Classification of Exceptional Children. Reviewed is the scope of the project which emphasized such aspects as the effects of labeling on individual children and the technical adequacy of diagnostic and classification systems. Among limitations ascribed to categories and…

The Bureau of the Census and Navy occupational classification systems are outlined and examined for the purpose of identifying the civilian occupations which correspond to each Navy rating. The procedures for and problems encountered in matching occupations from the census system (a public information document designed to portray an accurate…

The language of library and information science is presented in a faceted library classification. To this vocabulary are added rules for combining terms into compound subjects; an overall linear order for all terms, elementary and compound; and a notation to maintain this order in a mechanical fashion. An extensive alphabetical index is included.…

This programed text presents the basic principles and practices of subject indexing--limited to the area of precoordinate indexing. This first of two volumes deals with the subject analysis of documents, primarily at the level of summarization, and the basic elements of translation into classification schemes. The text includes regular self-tests…

Identified are issues in the classification of physically handicapped children. Issues include the need for safeguards to assure education and ancillary services at a time when categorical aid is questioned and the need to identify useful alternatives to categorizing children. (DB)

An empirical assesssment of the space distortion properties of two prototypic hierarchical clustering procedures is given in terms of an occupancy model developed from combinatorics. Using one simple example, the single-link and complete-link clustering strategies now in common use in the behavioral sciences are empirically shown to be space…

Suggested subject headings for 16mm motion pictures are listed. The intent of the list is to provide audiovisual librarians with a tool which will aid them in making subject indexes for their printed catalogs. It is also intended as an authority for professional catalogers who may be called upon to catalog 16mm motion pictures. (Author/KKC)