Attempts to define the New Journalism and examines the effect of technology on metropolitan newspapers and print journalism. (RB)

Proposes a framework to conceptualize and define the curriculum and instructional components of education and discusses some of the implications that the use of such a framework has for evaluators. (Author)

A list of recently formed Russian compounds with "radio-" and "tele-" and their German equivalents. (Text is in Russian and German.) (DH)

Article considered the source, nature, and role of values in human behavior. (Author/RK)

This study reviews the long-standing issue regarding the role and function of diagnosis within the counseling process. The author argues that the irreconcilable positions taken by client-centered versus diagnostic counselors have been sustained largely by the failure to resolve definitional ambiguities. (Author/BW)

This first to be published dictionary of Khowar has two parts, an introduction and the Khowar-English dictionary itself. The introduction describes Khowar, the primary language of the Chitral District of the Northwest Frontier Province of Pakistan. Khowar is described as an Indo-European language that came to the isolated Chitral valley more than…

The extent to which identification as learning disabled is a function of the definition used and the extent to which different classifications would result from use of different definitions were examined in a study involving 51 students (6 to 12 years old) referred for psychological evaluation as a result of academic difficulties. The school…

This report presents the findings and conclusions from the first phase of a two-phase study of education and work councils (community organizations of business leaders, school officials, and representatives of other institutions, formed to ease the transition of youths from school to work). The report describes the education and work councils…

This monograph examines sociological perspectives and their applications. It is intended to help the college student coming to sociology for the first time to recognize that there are several perspectives within sociology and to disentangle the mass of terms associated with each. The first distinctive sociological perspective came from the work of…

The report analyzes the scope of child sexual abuse and reviews treatment approaches to the problem. A tentative definition of child sexual abuse is offered, and incidence figures are examined. Family dynamics surrounding incest are described, as are effects on children and families. Characteristics of successful treatment and prevention…

This essay assesses the principal literature published on the theory of information science during 1971-1976. This literature is compared to the article, "From Information Science to Informatics: A Terminological Investigation," by Hans Wellisch. What has been written since Wellisch wrote was found to be not equal in quality to this…

This glossary was compiled to provide reference material for participants at Hawaii's Second Governor's Conference on Library and Information Services and is especially useful to those individuals not familiar with the terminology of the library and information sciences. Entries consist of 194 names, acronyms, and other terms which are arranged in…

The questions that are central to the curriculum field--why certain things should be taught, who should get what knowledge, what rules should govern the teaching of school subjects, and how the components of the curriculum should be interrelated--indicate that curriculum development is not a neutral, technical activity. Curriculum development…

This paper defines technical writing as writing about subjects in the sciences in which the writer informs the reader through an objective presentation of facts. The emphasis in the definition is on three aspects of writing: the writer's subject; the writer's purpose; and the writer's attitude. A stanza from Shelley's "To a Skylark" and the entry…

In order to have more utility as constructs, international and intercultural communication must be redefined and interrelated. International communication is any symbolic interaction among people of different nation states. This definition rules out all communication which does not pass across national boundaries, but includes all social messages…