The pamphlet offers an overview of the position of the educable mentally handicapped (EMH) student in secondary schools in discussions of the classification of EMH pupils, social attitudes, learning processes, and educational needs. Definitions (current and historic) and causes of MH are canvassed briefly. Historical, cultural, and current…

The responses of young children to two forms of the Sampling Organization and Recall Through Strategies (SORTS) test were compared. Subjects were first, second, and third graders in a Midwestern urban area. Children's SORTS scores, representing the sorting skill levels demonstrated by the children, were derived from a combination of groups formed…

A resource center is an agency for stimulating the active creation and use of a resource collection, including these six elements: production of home-made resources; selection and acquisition of other resources; classification and indexing for retrieval; storage; use, including guidance, lending, etc.; and evaluation and weeding. It was the charge…

Because the impact of college on students is not uniform, this work uses a typological approach to come to grips more adequately with the question of what happens to students who attend four-year colleges. Change, development, and senior "outcomes" are examined for each of 13 groups. The groupings were devised based on a statistical analysis of…

A total of 47 6-year-old children listened to stories after which they either constructed pictorial representations of those stories from a set of backgrounds and cut-out figures and objects, or they spent equivalent time classifying geometric figures. The pictorial elaboration task inhibited recall of the stories. This contrasts with results…

Presented for diagnosticians and referral agents is an overview of four major types of diagnostic procedures utilized in the assessment of mental retardation: differential, etiological, diagnostic-remedial, and behavioral-task analysis. The rationale, definition, method, assets, and limitations of each method are discussed and are summarized in…

Publications offered for sale by the International Federation for Documentation (FID), an agency devoted to documentation and information science, are listed. The publications, which are in many languages, are arranged by subject matter. Among the topics covered are: research and development, documentation practice, linguistics, and the Universal…

The product of two summer institutes to prepare teachers and administrators for school integration, this report contains a resource manual on "Grouping Children in Integrated Schools." For the full abstract of the institute proceedings, see UD 010 390. For other resource manuals, see ED 036 568-ED 036 573, and UD 010 390. (RJ)

This final report indicates the general areas of investigation in a program of research in the prediction of personal adjustment, conducted over a seventeen-year period. The crucial problems in the prediction of personal adjustment are fundamentally concerned with the data matrix which reflects the experimental designs and displays the essential…

An introduction to the Russian phonemic system leads to a model classification of verb forms derived from the infinitive and present stems of selected verbs. Correspondences between the two sets of verb forms are listed. A brief history of attempts at verb classification concentrates on the theory of Meyer, Berneker, and Bloomfield. A complete…

Thirty-two papers presented at the seventh annual seminar of the Documentation Research and Training Center explore: (1) Universe of Subjects - Its Development and Structure, (2) Subject Analysis and Classification, (3) Subject Headings, (4) Librametry and Its Scope, (5) Subject Analysis, (6) Library Work, (7) Documentation List, (8) Library…

The opening session of the seventh annual seminar of the Documentation Research and Training Center is provided in verbatim form. The section of Group Meetings and Plenary Sessions examines the propositions presented in the thirty-two papers presented in Volume I (LI 002 230). The balance of the report provides: (1) the Valedictory Address and the…

The purpose of this study was to investigate the possible role of adult education in nation-building. Nation-building was defined as a process of building group cohesion and group loyalty for the purposes of domestic planning and international representation. Models were designed for the purpose of analyzing the function of adult education in…

This paper presents a two dimensional chart of student behavior and subject matter content for facilitating the development of the Individually Prescribed Instruction (IPI) science curriculum, or any science curriculum. Within this framework, behavioral objectives are formulated, science subject matter content is selected, student learning…

A preschool curriculum for lower class children was developed based on Piaget's theory. Evaluation procedures were developed to parallel a Piagetian curriculum. According to Piagetian theory, the mechanism of classification is the coordination of the intensive and extensive properties of a group of objects. The ability to dichotomously classify…