Describes a four-part curriculum that can serve as a model for incorporating artificial intelligence (AI) into the high school computer curriculum. The model includes examining questions fundamental to AI, creating and designing an expert system, language processing, and creating programs that integrate machine vision with robotics and…

The current state of knowledge, primarily anecdotal, concerning ritualism in child sexual abuse is reviewed. The terminology is defined, and the issues of credibility and responses among parents, professionals, and the community are discussed. Implications for interviewing in clinical practice and for policy development are described, as are areas…

Cross-disciplinary similarities and differences are apparent among various conceptualizations of decision making. This article isolates several decision theories outside education traditions and reports the application of social judgment theory to improving educational administrators' ability to identify high-risk students. (42 references) (MLH)

Offers a teacher evaluation model designed to help principals understand their role as instructional supervisor. The model can also help teachers understand the nature of the evaluation being accomplished, facilitate the delegation of formative evaluation to others, and reconcile two seemingly irreconcilable processes. (12 references) (MLH)

The confusion by students on the use of three terms in their writing is discussed. The definitions of catabolite repression, constitutive, and ribosome binding site, given in the glossaries of 10 textbooks, are compared with the use of these terms in students' papers. (KR)

Examines circumstances associated with fatal child neglect in Iowa. Differentiates fatal child neglect from fatal physical abuse and other types of neglect. The typical neglect fatality was a male child, younger than three, living with the mother and two or three siblings. The bathroom is the room where fatal child neglect is most likely to occur.…

Defining hunger on the basis of poverty or other nonphysiological criteria is misleading. With nutritional data used by human-service agencies, suggests programs with such conception of hunger hurt the efforts at nutritional change. Uses central Mississippi as an example to propose objective nutritional definition and assessment. (TES)

Contends that, although the operant approach to psychology is based on objective empirical observations, much of psychology is filled with subjective, interpretive terminology. Argues that such terminology produces confusion over the definitions of basic operant concepts. Suggests a solution that defines the concepts of positive and negative…

This paper examines the extent to which the 1992 American Association on Mental Retardation (AAMR) definition of mental retardation provides decision rules to guide clinicians and researchers in classification efforts. The paper examines concerns about the intelligence quotient criterion, the adaptive skill areas, and proposed differentiation by…

Studies with 174 college students and 41 college faculty attempted to define trick questions and to determine whether students could distinguish between trick and not-trick questions. Evidence seems to suggest that the concept of trickiness is not as clear as some test construction textbooks indicate. (SLD)

Despite the popularity of outcome-based education, research documenting its effects is rare. As an umbrella concept embracing various reform efforts, OBE defies easy definition. This article explains two OBE models (Mastery Learning and the Outcomes-Driven Developmental Model used in Johnson City, New York, Schools) and summarizes recent state OBE…

Reviews statistics on children in foster care. Examines the definition of foster care, the reasons children are placed in foster care, the various living arrangements that constitute foster care, and the rapid growth of the foster care population. (MDM)

Critiques works from "Journal of Mental Health Counseling" special issue on mental health counseling for men. Notes Kelly and Hall's confusion of terms regarding biological sex and masculine gender roles. Contends that Heesacker and Prichard presented dualistic statements and pigeonholed men. Advocates for greater knowledge of gender-related…

Presents a revised working definition of schema, lists four types of knowledge that individuals have (i.e., identification, elaboration, planning, and execution), and outlines issues in schema theory. The usefulness of schema in problem solving and information problem solving is discussed, and implications for teachers of information literacy are…

Today varied notions of good teaching are mired in fruitless, "cheesy" debates over traditional versus progressive philosophies. On the "Velveeta" side is John Locke, who viewed children as a "tabula rasa" (empty slate). On the brie side is Rousseau, who emphasized freeing the child as "noble savage." The…