Both students and adults preferred number and color to form groups. Number and color were equally difficult, form being the most difficult grouping. Illiterate adults sorted as well or better than students when given a task believed to be functional in the Mano culture. (DB)

A criticism of the obfuscatory nomenclature, and the negative influence on children labeled with learning disabilities. (RA)

Children should be faced with high level questions in the classroom in order to develop their ability to think creatively. (CK)

Reminiscences of a subject cataloger at the Library of Congress, in which he tells of some of the challenges of subject analysis and explains methods of meeting them. (Author)

Article describes findings of a survey of systems engineering programs made in 1968 by the Systems Science and Cybernetics Education Committee. (IR)

Mass media has made it possible for all members of the public to listen to and enjoy good music. (CK)

Creative teaching should be used to motivate small children to appreciate and understand the beauty of music. (CK)

The use of words to appropriately convey one's thoughts is discussed. (CK)

Three experiments on tachistoscopic perception of visual stimuli demonstrate that the visual system is sensitive to global topological properties. The results indicate that extraction of global topological properties is a basic factor in perceptual organization. (Author)

Presents a typology for differentiating between varying definitions of educational needs. The typology is based on the assessment of learner competence, motivation, and the relevance of the learning activity. A case study to test the typology investigates the degree of interdependence of these elements in the assessment of learner needs.…

The Bloom Taxonomy of Educational Objectives is criticized because its distinctions between cognitive, affective, and psychomotor domains are invalid; its categories are ill-defined and do not denote homogenous types of objectives; its structural base is inconsistent; and it is debatable whether it is a true taxonomy. (IS)