Analyzes the structure of French distributive complements, including the formal and semantic similarities and differences among them. (AM)

An historical discussion of three types of film--teaching, information, and entertainment--is presented. The numbers of films in each category, especially the last, which includes the animated, unnarrated, iconographic, underground, and avant-garde, has grown substantially. Libraries have quickly accepted all except the revolutionary philosophies…

Library film services for the hearing-impaired are discussed. Captioned and nonverbal films are defined, and a discussion of changing attitudes that resulted in integrated showing of these films is presented. Pointers on how to integrate, and sources of information on films for the hearing-impaired are also included. (MBR)

A broad definition of numeracy is suggested that involves the use of mathematical knowledge. (MP)

Social scientists need to become more concerned with the study of dangerous behaviors and practices in our society, especially in light of the disproportionate injury and harm suffered by socially disadvantaged groups. (Author)

The ability to raise effective questions for problem-solving learning requires considerable skill and much preparation and practice. This research provides a brief examination of three problem-solving models for both elementary and secondary-level classrooms and emphasizes the development of an appropriate teacher question repertory for each phase…

Responsibility Education is a concept designed to restructure and redefine schooling and education to emphasize those attitudes, dispositions, and habits that lead to the development of a sense of responsibility within each individual and the knowledge, skills, judgments, standards and commitments needed by an individual to act responsibly.…

Some of the tactics elderly people use to sustain an honorable self-image, some ways in which society deprives aging people of dignity, and some suggestions for augmenting the dignity accorded old people in American society are discussed here. (Author)

The developmentally, physically, and psychiatrically disabled who must cope with institutionalization, disability, and their humanity, are the people whom the institution library serves. The librarian faces the challenge of professionalism, creativity, and awareness to care for and about these people. (Author/MBR)

The definition of test bias--the inventory of the ways in which the term is used--has many widely disparate aspects frequently stemming from entirely different universes of discourse. This article attempts a review of the status of each of these. (Author)

The variety of definitions of Indian tribal sovereignty may stem from the fact that there are so many differences in situation and problems from one reservation to the next. Three cases are briefly surveyed: the White Earth Chippewa Reservation in Minnesota, the Choctaw Reservation in Philadelphia, Mississippi, and the Makah Reservation in Neah…

Applies the judgment analysis technique (JAN) to the decision-making procedure of learning disabilities (LD) specialists. Each group of learning disabilities specialists, as formed by JAN, represented a different judgmental policy or a different construct of learning disabilities. (Author/RK)

Attempts "to look through the microscope" to try to understand how consciousness--or mind--comes into existence. And with mind, how language, the notion of truth, logic, mathematics and the sciences have come into the world. (Author/RK)

The article discusses a study designed to reconcile the widely varying estimates of prevalence of hyperactivity in children, in which parents, teachers, and physicians were asked to identify hyperactivity in a sample of over 5,000 elementary school children. (DLS)

An analysis of terms used to translate the English real estate "developer." A comparative study is made of English and French definitions. The following terms are suggested translations of the English "developer": "Promoteur,""lotisseur,""amenageur," and "maitre de l'ouvrage." (Text is in French.) (AMH)