This paper sets forth chronology of disciplinary names that have been used in scholarly literature over past 80 years to characterize information science and its antecedents--bibliography, documentation, scientific information, information retrieval, information science, informatics, bibliometrics. Future research needs are discussed. Related…

The level of meaning (membership, partial association, or generalization) that English-speaking (N=1635) and Hindi-speaking students (N=823) preferred when thinking about each of 16 key concept definitions associated with the theme "the nature of matter" was measured for each concept. Results and implications for science instruction are…

Presents an anecdotal look at the evolution of computer literacy from 1965 to 1985 and a projection to 1995 by tracing progress at 10-year intervals. The characteristics of a computer literate person and arguments for computer literacy during each time period are discussed. (MBR)

The effects of text-provided aids on readers' understanding of scientific passages are discussed. Two techniques are pretraining on definitions and signaling. In the experiments, subjects read a scientific passage with either definitions pretraining, signaling, both, or neither. Results indicated these techniques helped readers build mental models…

Discusses current national mood regarding importance of science education, what can be done to remedy the gross inadequacy of math and science education that currently exists for the average U.S. student, make-up of target audience for this new strategy, and pedagogical strategy designed to achieve technology literacy. (MBR)

Focuses on (1) the acquisition and use of word representations and (2) the acquisition of the alphabetic code. Urges that instruction provide conditions to promote the learning of three types of representation--word forms, letter patterns, and mapping. (RDN)

Characteristics of different kinds of disabled children, including mentally retarded, neurologically impaired, emotionally disturbed, orthopedically impaired, visually impaired, perceptually disabled, auditorially disabled, and multiply disabled, are described. Approaches for teaching art activities to the various groups are presented and teacher…

Reviews various sociological concepts of "rural" and the definitional problems related to occupational, sociocultural, ecological, and multidimensional conceptions of rurality. Describes and recommends multidimensional typologies developed by the United States Department of Agriculture's Economic Research Services and the Maine State Planning…

The university aims to define what it means to be a well-educated person and a responsible citizen both of the university and of the broader social and political world. A definition of the idea of a university and an analysis of the role and function of "general education" in a modern university are provided.(MLW)

Compares various methods of defining derived quantities, arguing for a definitional formula using base or fundamental units in a word equation, or symbol-equations with the symbols explained. Suggests that fundamental units be defined operationally or left regarded as intuitive as in the case of length and time. (JM)

Investigated learning of the energy concept during physics instruction in grades seven to 10, focusing on meanings of words (names of concepts) and tasks involving motion. Results indicate severe limitations of the impact of physics instruction on learning the concept. (JN)

Suggests some reasons why the exploration and description of language function is often an untidy exercise but, none-the-less very rewarding and rich in implication for English teaching. (Author/RK)

Article reported the results of a survey of principals of 670 schools in all cities of the United States with a population of over 300,000 on their attitudes about the educational worth of a wide variety of educational innovations. (Author/RK)

Reviewed are the activities of the Bureau of Education for the Handicapped in helping severely handicapped children and youth become as independent as possible. (SBH)