Few ways have been developed for effectively recording and analyzing values held by individuals, groups, and schools. The investigator sought to devise a rapid, valid, and reliable way to record and classify values expressed by students and schools. She hoped to avoid weaknesses inherent in the customary paper and pencil tests with their…

This manual serves as a guide to the organization of library collections for Ball State University students in the graduate school of library science. The manual presents, in a concise manner, methods and card forms used in establishing bibliographic controls over a library collection. It is intended that the manual will be used in conjunction…

The Workshop was held to promote the use and encourage the exchange of information on the techniques of audiovisual librarianship and to develop these techniques. A forum was provided for discussion and exchange of views on the subject. Various aspects of the control, storage and exploitation of media are discussed in the five papers which range…

GRADES OR AGES: Four-, five-, and six-year olds. SUBJECT MATTER: Cognitive areas of symbolism, classification, conservation, seriation, spatial relationship, and temporal relationships. ORGANIZATION AND PHYSICAL APPEARANCE: The guide is divided into six sections, one for each of the above cognitive areas. Each section lists materials and describes…

Some 180 kindergarten children from low income families were tested midway through the school year on an instructional concepts inventory created by the Southwest Regional Laboratory for Educational Research and Development (SRL). The inventory was designed to measure the basic concepts known by a child. It is specifically geared to test…

This developmental study sought to determine the feasibility of utilizing computers and the limitations of computers in the curriculum development process. It focused on these steps in the curriculum development process: (1) formulation of objectives, (2) selection of content, (3) organization of content, (4) selection of learning experiences, and…

Fifty-four 5-year-old Head Start children participated in a study of the effect of varied versus repeated training on the development of the ability to categorize and transfer learning. The children were grouped according to chronological age and results of a mastery test and the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test. Work categories translated into…

A teachers' guide for social studies, this manual stresses geography curriculum and activities for the primary grades. It is suggested that a teacher work with one group while the other children work individually. Children first work independently for a team, and then progress to less structured small group activities. Positive reinforcement by…

To introduce kindergarten-second grade children to the process of classification, a multimedia kit has been assembled. Mounted bird specimens, films, data cards, books, stickers and flash cards are provided. The classifying activities and the collecting of data from the bird mounts and films are all structured around games. Eight lesson plans are…

This manual is basically a procedural outline to assist local school officials in developing and organizing a meaningful school property accounting system to comply with generally accepted governmental accounting principles. A list of references concerned with property accounting is included. (FS)

The position statement from the National Association of Retarded Citizens specifies areas of study and competencies needed by evaluators who generate or interpret psychometric data used in classification and placement decisions regarding mentally handicapped persons. Guidelines focus on academic degrees and licensure; recommended areas of study…

Very little cognitive development research has been done among African children, and most of the completed studies have relied on "translated" versions of Western test materials that are inappropriate to the African milieu. This paucity of research has had two affects: (1) rural African children have been represented as somewhat less…

The paper, given by the director of a project to train teachers for early childhood education programs which integrate handicapped and normal children, focuses on the effects of labeling on teacher-child interaction. The author recounts her own experience with teaching handicapped children and the historical tendency to label and segregate various…

Most successful vocational education programs are identified in 16 community colleges through the use of the Delphi method. The design provided for a reliability check on the Delphi technique through the use of two independent Delphi panels on each campus. Hard data on 36 "most successful" and 36 "other" programs on 12 campuses…

As a standard classification system, International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED) provides a standard format for assembling, reporting, and compiling statistics of different educational phenomena both within a country and internationally. The system classified courses, programs, and fields of education according to their educational…