Cites and discusses each usage of the term "elective affinity" in the writings of Max Weber and relates Weber's usage of the term to literature, chemistry, and philosophy. (Author/DB)

The article deals with the problem of scientific definitions, focusing on its application to learning disabilities. (DLS)

The user's judgment of the relevance of output from an information system may or may not be appropriate reference points for the evaluation of systems. A more penetrating understanding of the information transfer process is needed to elucidate the problems of developing information systems to support the new intellectual technology. (Author/MBR)

The author reviews problems in the field of learning disabilities. (Author/SBH)

Illustrating modern community mental health philosophy, this article asserts that the term "client" is preferable to that of "patient" because it implies some measure of personal responsibility, does not carry the connotation of "mental patient", and is a respectable reference to those who patronize community mental health services. (JC)

The authors present two studies designed to examine the effects of maturation and mathematics education on students' ability to apply notions of sentential logic in interpreting disjunctive and inferential arguments. (MN)

A look at behavioral objectives in a general setting combined with a discussion of some of the aspects of behavioral objectives as interpreted in mathematics and some practical lessons on objective writing were the focus of this paper. (Author/RK)

The consequences of presenting graduate education students with a highly structured definition of the concept of curriculum were assessed in terms of the subject's cognitive structure, their attitudes toward the concept, and the nature of discussions which the subjects held with other teachers in their school setting. (Author/NQ)

Attempts to show that the route of those who have been active in comparative studies over the past thirteen years has not been the most profitable one and to demonstrate that the way ahead lies in greater academic independence, in less dogmatism regarding methodology, and in deliberately placing limitations on the competence of the comparative…

The nature of measurement is discussed in this article with respect to science and mathematics. According to the author, "measurement is the assigning of numerals to objects of thought or perception according to rules." Other definitions, and properties of measurement are included. Two activities exploring measurement are given. (MA)

Beginning in 1975, the Head Start Program expanded its services to include special education for preschool children who are handicapped (each state must allocate 10 percent of its enrollment opportunities to handicapped children). Head Start has also developed a needs assessment kit to aid personnel in recognizing and dealing with handicapping…

Discusses the need and usefulness of defining electromotive force, potential difference, and voltage in a precise way so that each can be distinguished from the other. (SL)

Summarizes five task analysis approaches to determining what people need to know and do to perform their jobs successfully. (EM)

Attempts to define discrimination from a middle point of view and proposes that discrimination means attitudes and beliefs which foster overt and covert selective practices and behavior toward a person or groups of people. Uses black white relations as examples and shows a model of the various factors tending to influence institutional…

It is suggested that the theory of behavior based on conditioning processes can be reconciled with new data, but only by revising certain tacit behaviorist assumptions about the parameters of the conditioning process. (Author/AM)