Discusses advantages and disadvantages of the lecture method as an instructional form; circumstances where lectures serve a useful purpose; the general lecture model, which includes an introduction, presentation, and summary; and three variations on this general model--interactive, demonstrational, and interactive demonstration lectures. (MBR)

Discusses the connection between the fields of terminology and information science and demonstrates the importance of linguistics, in particular the theory of terminology, in the automation of such information processes as classification, indexing, and abstracting. Fourteen references are cited. (Author/EJS)

Compared six Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) short forms with the full-length MMPI for ability to identify code-types and indices of psychopathology in renal dialysis patients (N=53) and paranoid schizophrenics (N=58). Results suggested that the accuracy of the short forms fluctuates for different patient populations and…

The Experiential Taxonomy is one that teachers who have taken an introductory inservice mini-course can use in the classroom as an effective tool for planning and evaluation of student experiences. It can be used equally effectively in the classroom for planning, amending, implementing, and evaluating each student activity or learning sequence.…

Ranganathan believed that effective reference service depended on the intuitive "flair" of the librarian and on the use of an analyticosynthetic classification scheme. (Author)

The purpose of this presentation is to continue the dialogue on the professional status of and the specialization within the instructional design and technology (IDT) field. This presentation highlights the similarities and differences among the various classification systems, which are used for ranking occupational fields, and discusses the most…

We consider the problem of classifying an unknown observation into one of several populations using tree-structured allocation rules. Although many parametric classification procedures are robust to certain assumption violations, there is need for discriminant procedures that can be utilized regardless of the group-conditional distributions that…

This study attempted to expand the dichotomous classification scheme typically used by researchers to describe teaching incentives and to offer administrators and teachers an "alternative" framework within which to develop incentive systems. This study is built on a previous one, but used a much larger sample (n=969). Elementary, middle,…

The Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education is the framework in which institutional diversity in United States higher education is commonly described. Developed in 1971, the Classification was designed to support research in higher education by identifying categories of colleges and universities that would be homogeneous with…

The reanalysis of data to answer the original research question with better statistical techniques or to answer new questions with old data is not uncommon in quantitative studies. Meta analysis and research syntheses have increased with the increase in research using similar statistical analyses, refinements of analytical techniques, and the…

Data from records of 99 patients were used to classify cardiac patients as to whether they were likely or unlikely to experience a subsequent morbid event after admission to a hospital. Both a linear discriminant function and a logistic regression equation were developed using a set of nine predictor variables that were chosen on the basis of…

Implicit in the work of S. Huck and H. Sandler (1979) is the idea that the concept "rival hypotheses" refers to some kind of alternative explanation. Rather than being threats to internal validity, rival hypotheses, in their view, are interpretations that differ from those of the researcher. This paper broadens the idea to include any…

This supplement has been prepared to be used with Office of Education Bulletin 1930, No. 24, which is the latest complete bulletin of accredited secondary schools in the United States. It shows under each State: First, names of schools which should be added to the corresponding list in the bulletin; next, those which should be removed whether…

The logic of different types of weighting are discussed, and experiments testing weighting schemes of these types are described. The results show that one type of weighting leads to material performance improvements in quite different collection environments. (22 references) (Author)