After initial efforts to maintain the traditional posture toward learning disabilities in the rewriting of the Rehabilitation Comprehensive Services and Developmental Disabilities Amendments of 1978 (P.L. 95-602), the Rehabilitation Services Administration yielded to a new conceptualization which will now allow the severely LD access to…

The literature reviewed on the relationship of child abuse to mental retardation is said to suggest a higher incidence of mental retardation for abused children than might be expected in the general population. Implications are drawn for the expanded role of educators in prevention, identification, and treatment. (Author)

Examines a recent study of children's definitions of classroom work and play and discusses the implications of the findings for curriculum and teaching. Findings show that children in kindergarten call required work activities, work, and voluntary ones, play. Fifth graders define play as any activity, voluntary or required, which is pleasurable.…

Competence is seen as a cause of effective performance, not a synonym for it. Teaching and assessing competence may be different than teaching and assessing academic skills. Competence can be measured, but its measurement depends first on its definition. (Author/MLW)

The author explores the complex meanings of "education,""career," and "work" as they are used in career education discussions and proposals. (Ed/MM)

Functional literacy for inmates is that critical threshold in learning which enables a person to become an autonomous individual capable of reflecting on his/her circumstances and transforming the self and behavior. Once on 'the outside,' the conditions which led to incarceration can hopefully be recognized and avoided. (Author)

Discusses the role of the lexicographer in assisting the translator and the technical writer and in vocabulary control. (AM)

Describes a study examing 34 introductory psychological statistics texts for their usage and definitions of the terms "random sample" and "simple random sampling." Results showed a high percentage of conceptual errors. (CK)

The author examines the view of Ludwig Wittgenstein and Morris Weitz that an object is "art" if it shares characteristics with other objects already called "art." Asserting that such a definition provides the art teacher no standards for judging student work, he proposes the use of teacher-constructed, honorific definitions. (SJL)

It is posited that varying uses of the words "values" and "ethics" signify important clashes of opinion about the proper subject matter, scope, and goals of teaching about normative prescriptive judgements and theories. (MJB)

The authors clarify the definition of cognitive styles and identify important areas of concern in the field. (MJB)

Improvisation implies a relative freedom to choose elements within stylistic norms of rules proper to a given culture. Improvisatory processes for music from several cultures are described. These cultures are: Indian, Spanish, African, and Afro-Cuban (rumba). A few resources focusing on improvisation in Latin American music are presented. (KC)

Presents a framework for analyzing what it means to understand an intellectual skill, particularly in science or mathematics: (1) types of knowledge, (2) knowledge associated with intellectual skills, (3) classification system for this knowledge, (4) application of the system to two protocols, and (5) instructional prescriptions. Gagne's learning…

Terms used in the interagency process component of community education are defined and examples of linking mechanisms and factors that encourage collaboration are listed. (MLF)

This first of two related reports by the same authors presents a generalized theory of the information flow process that establishes quantitative definitions for and relationships among quantity of information, value of information, effectiveness of information, decision-maker effectiveness, and decision-maker performance. Eighteen references are…