Responds to Zajonc's criticism of author's own belief in primacy of cognition by defining what he means by "emotion" and discussing whether sensory preferences can be regarded as emotions. Says that the evidence Zajonc presents to supporting his claim for the primacy of emotion and its independence from cognition is specious. (CMG)

Presents an overview of the FORTH programing language's functions, compares it to BASIC, demonstrates how it can be tailored to specific applications, and describes in detail the VIC FORTH dialect designed specifically for the Commodore VIC-20 microcomputer. Representative FORTH words and a VIC FORTH dictionary are included. (MBR)

Cautions against adapting the Interagency Language Roundtable and the ACTFL/ETS guidelines for specific purposes. Defines "hothouse special" as a second language learner who can impressively speak on one or two higher topics but fails to transfer this level of vocabulary and grammar to other topics. Proposes new definitions of proficiency,…

Describes recent attempts to integrate developmental perspectives in research involving infant and child psychopathology. Definitions are offered, and various methods to foster the growth of developmental psychopathology are presented. (Author/RH)

Reading disability is conceptualized as a disorder of several aspects of langauage, with acquisition of syntax, phonics, and phonemic coding in short-term memory signficantly delayed. However, semantic processing appears to be relatively intact. Remedial reading programs should stress the encouragement of expressive language skills. (Author/CL)

Dealing effectively with the issue of quality assessment in innovative graduate programs involves having a clear idea of what is meant by "quality," of the range of "graduate education," and of what constitutes "innovation." (MLW)

The Individual Development creativity model developed here is for the thousands of teachers who would like to have an instructional handle on creativity. (Author/RK)

Examines the use of the concept "community" for describing experiments in education. Looks at the very different concepts which the Chinese use in discussing what they are doing, and at the experiments themselves, hoping that this will stimulate further critical discussion of the relation between concepts employed and educational…

The use of the terms "sensitivity, threshold, bias, and ratio scale" in psychophysics is discussed, with special reference to the statistical decision theory of sensory discrimination and its application to signal detection and classical psychophysical procedures. (Editor)

In order to compare and contrast the situations in which one ought to purchase materials and when one ought to produce materials in the environment of the single school, the basis of curriculum and instruction were examined. (Author/RK)

The author defines a number of the current terms used in education today. (HMV)

Argues that the criteria of beauty elaborated in Francis Kovach's recent work, "Philosophy Of Beauty," cannot be applied with success, and in consequence his theory suffers from an excess of traditionalism. (Author/RK)

Discusses the notion of explanatory adequacy with reference to a theory of generative phonology. An approach is suggested which defines the notion of possible processes based on natural language rules, rather than one which defines the notion of possible rules based on universal processes. (Text is in French.) (CDSH/AM)

Treatment of entitlement to an education as a privilege or a claim rather than a fundamental human right is criticized. (GW)

Many Americans with disabilities feel that a series of negative court decisions is reducing their status to that of "second-class citizens," a status that the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) was supposed to remedy forever. In this report, the National Council on Disability (NCD), which first proposed the enactment of an ADA and…