The performance of 18 deaf college students who learned English words and their definitions using the mnemonic keyword method with pictorial elaboration was compared with the performance of 13 controls who learned the same words and their definitions using their own strategies. Immediate and delayed prompted word-definition recall and delayed…

The success or failure of black children in school has been attributed to positive or negative self-concept, but the construct of self-concept has been misused and misrepresented by educators and researchers. The traditional definition of self-concept as a highly interrelated perception of the self has been defined in perceptual rather than…

The literature review considers characteristics of autism in three general areas of impairment: communication; cognition; and social behavior. Briefly noted are incidence and etiology facts. A variety of definitions are presented including a psychiatric definition, Leo Kanner's definition, and the definition of the Autism Study Committee of Iowa.…

This training manual was written for student reference assistants to teach them about the Monterey County Free Library (California) and about libraries in general. It introduces library nomenclature (e.g., automated system, interlibrary loan, and MLS), describes requirements of the reference assistant position, and provides information on how to…

Definitions, statistics, and problems of world refugees are presented in this document for high school global education classes. Although various agencies have determined different definitions of the term, the authors consider as refugees all those forced to flee their native land in order to survive. For most refugees the attraction of a higher…

This bilingual American government handbook is one in a series designed to help high school students who are literate in their native Lao, but are limited-English-proficient, in meeting their graduation requirements. The handbook is essentially a glossary. The first part, in Lao, contains major concepts in American government and definitions of…

This bilingual handbook on United States government is one in a series developed to help high school students who are literate in Spanish, but not in English, to meet graduate requirements. Major American government concepts and a glossary of important and commonly used terms are presented, first in Spanish and then in English. (CMG)

This publication contains 190 terms that relate directly and uniquely to agricultural education or that are considered to be highly important in vocational and technical education and have direct relevance to agricultural education. Intended for supervisors, teacher educators, teachers, and students in agricultural education, the publication…

This glossary offers definitions of almost 600 terms normally associated with the field of educational technology in brief and easy-to-understand form, all in Spanish (a Portugese version exists). The terms are organized into six major areas: learning, communications, instructional design, evaluation, media production, and systems theory. (Author)

This study was an attempt to determine the nature of the pausing phenomena in oral reading, and whether these phenomena are possible overt features of the verbal processing entailed in reading orally, and also in reading silently, by relating them to the silent and oral reading comprehension abilities of the subjects. (Author)

Author attempted to outline a concept of logic that involves standards of correct reasoning as well as some idea of how these might be carried out in a classroom. (Author/RK)

Results of a student questionnaire survey on cheating at two colleges in Maryland and Nebraska are reported. Findings show that there is a need for definition of what constitutes cheating and that the degree of overt attention to cheating does not indicate the severity of the problem. Recommendations are made for faculty involvement in solutions.…

Author presented a brief summary of what he saw when looking back, around, and about the fields of comparative and international education, and what those observations suggested to him about the future as a field and Society. (Author/RK)

Outlines the problems requiring restructuring of programs to prepare two new types of primary care physicians: a family physician who is predominantly an ambulatory care specialist and a primary care internist, pediatrician, or obstetrician who cares for most diseases in office and hospital. (JT)

Seven domains upon which public policy is said to have an impact are differentiated here. A major intention of the paper is to distinguish between science and trans-science and the validity of including non-objective phenomena as an input into public policy evaluation and formation. (Author/AM)