This monograph contains an autoinstructional packet developed for secondary school biology students. The instructions present a lesson on classification using slides and packets of pictures as the media for displaying the animals and plants to be classified. A brief historical account leads into the study of the modern classification system. No…

The Uniform Slavic Transliteration Alphabet (USTA) was designed primarily with the following objectives: to aid librarians (catalogers and bibliographers), information scientists, transliterators, and editors of bibliographic works of the many Slavic tongues; and to serve as original research for the further development of a machine-readable…

The study reported involved: (1) development of a concept learning task which embodied complex concepts similar to those included in elementary school curricula, and (2) investigation of the effects of type of thinking, abstract or concrete; grade levels, fourth, sixth, or eighth; and sex upon performance of human Ss with complex concepts of…

A taxonomy for use in data gathering was developed and adapted. There are three types of activity in community service programs: (1) those designed to assist community members who are seeking to improve their own lives, (2) those designed to assist existing community organizations in establishing cooperative alliances to meet community-wide needs,…

Current efforts to take advantage of the special virtues of the computer as an aid in text analysis are described. Verbal constructs, category construction, and contingency analysis are discussed and illustrated. Mechanical techniques for reducing human labor when studying large quantities of verbal data have been sought at an increasing rate by…

The typology is based on 2 dimensions of the ideology of each American Indian movement. One of these dimensions is the time perspective of the movement, based on its handling of time and change. Movements are distinguished according to whether they amphasize the present, past, future, or a breadth of time perspective. Movements are also…

This report compares maximum linear prediction, maximum total correct classifications for a group, and maximum probability of correct classification for an individual as objective criteria for univariate grading scales. Since the goals of valid prediction and valid classification lead to conflicting criteria, it is possible that a compromise…

The trend in Community Colleges, Technical Institutes, and some senior institutions is to merge the services of libraries, skills labs, media centers, and supportive instructional agencies into Learning Resources Centers (LRC). Many excellent reports have been written about the LRC concept, consequently, this report deals with the mechanics of…

The logical structure of the data bank is described from the user's point of view, without reference to machine implementation. The length of files, records, segments, and fields are variable and unlimited; duplication factors are unlimited; sequence of files, records within file, and segments within record are random. All data are subject to…

This extension of Harris' classification system permits classification of the interval-scale properties of any 2 x 2 (two person, two choice) game. The system is compared to taxonomies developed by various previous researchers. It is shown to permit compact description of any 2 x 2 game as an octet of numbers. It also permits rapid classification…

A discussion of the classification of behavior disturbance, the paper focuses on the results of behavior and ways to avoid uncontrolled inference and observer-interpretation. One hypothesis of maladjustment which is explored is a failure to think about the consequences of behavior and to act on impulse. An experimental revision of the Bristol…

In an effort to help parents and others understand changes being made in the English secondary schools, this book explains the reasons for abolishing the "11 plus" in favor of comprehensive education; the reasons for using child growth and development as the basis for modern educational methods; the school activities, organization, and…

Discussion of licensing educational personnel has focused on three levels of criteria: 1) academic proficiency, 2) ability to perform skills and behaviors deemed essential to teaching, and 3) ability to produce changes in pupil behavior. The optimum criteria would be a mix of the first and second levels, since there are too many uncontrolled…

Designed basically as an operating manual for the technical processing staff, this publication is also intended to be used as a reference by librarians and library administrators. The contents include: the book, book collections, the public card catalog, catalog card filing rules, objectives-goals-activities of the Technical Processes Division,…

A program was conducted to prepare a plan for research toward empirical determination of critical and procedures for optimal selection of cost-effective methods and media. The procedure followed was a review of pertinent literature, analysis of the findings, identification of problems for further research, and formulation of new approaches to…