The development of a taxonomy of residential facilities for people with mental retardation based on program model, size, and operator is described, and data is presented on the system's use in a national survey of residential facilities. Program models are defined, and national summary data provided. (Author/CL)

Describes a typology for classifying and monitoring the expanding knowledge base in student affairs. The categories in this typology include descriptive, theory development, concept integration, policy formulation, decision making, and developmental. (BH)

Briefly analyzes and critiques "The Taxonomy of Educational Objectives" by Benjamin Bloom and others from the perspective of the values and epistemological presuppositions of the critical thinking movement. Suggests that the hierarchical organization of the taxonomy fosters mistaken assumptions about cognitive processes and may hamper…

When 60 five-year-old and 48 10-year-old children heard three stories, each containing three target objects from each of three taxonomic categories, younger children received greater benefit than older children from strongly scripted story presentations and from constrained category-cue and script-cue retrieval conditions. Cues and the extent to…

Describes a scheme consisting of nine elements or "themes" ordered in terms of their more probable links developed from clinical work with crying infants. Theme categories are genetic/hereditary, psychiatric disorder, central nervous system, medical health (chronic), medical health (acute), nutrition/allergy, form, psychosocial…

Cluster analyzed the MMPI profiles of 70 male chronic pain patients into four homogeneous subgroups. Mean composites for each subgrouping were entered into a PDP 11 computer to generate an objective actuarial narrative description. Findings appeared to extend and replicate the work of earlier investigators. (Author)

A review and analysis of current research on subtypes of learning-disabled children argues against a "single syndrome" theory of learning disability and demonstrates the feasibility of creating more homogeneous diagnostic groups within this broad and ill-defined category of exceptional children. (Author/CL)

Assesses children's recall performance using three memory instructions: standard free recall, repetition, and categorical processing. Recall performance was about equal for standard versus repetition and superior when category processing is used, especially with highly representative items. Concludes that at both 7 years and 10 years the…

Iterative Intercolumnar Correlation Classification (IICC) computes the correlation coefficients for the entries of every column of a matrix with those of every other column of the matrix. Iteration increases the size and validity of the object indices, reduces error in the indices, and increases homogeneity amongst them. (Author/BW)

Though it is laborious to examine the culture of the school, researchers have been endeavouring to empirically apprehend it since the 1960s. A variety of research jobs have been carried out, of various starting points, ways of materialization, and conclusions. The presented text indicates a way of classifying these studies according to the…

This paper describes procedures for estimating various indices of classification consistency and accuracy for multiple category classifications using data from a single test administration. The estimates of the classification consistency and accuracy indices are compared under three different psychometric models: the two-parameter beta binomial,…

This study assessed the use of knowledge management (KM), the process of generating, codifying, and transferring information assets for increased organizational performance, and the strategies that further its use in research universities. The study also examined relationships between use and efficiency of strategies and the effectiveness of KM,…

Much of the literature on charter schools treats them as an undifferentiated mass. A typology of charter schools grounded in the norms, traditions, and perspectives of the founding organization or organizers is presented and tested in this paper. It is suggested that there are two broad categories of charter founders: (1) those who are more…

This paper provides an overview of the Elazar classification system for libraries of Judaica. The authors of the scheme contend that there was and is a need for a system for libraries of Judaica to classify and arrange their collections according to Jewish concepts based upon Jewish thought and terminology. Topics covered include: (1) initial…

The purpose of this paper is to derive optimal rules for sequential mastery tests. In a sequential mastery test, the decision is to classify a subject as a master or a nonmaster, or to continue sampling and administering another random test item. The framework of minimax sequential decision theory (minimum information approach) is used; that is,…