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…

The mastery of a concept is quite important in learning science. In classroom situations, it is difficult to assess if students have attained mastery in the absence of some systematic evaluation of their understanding of the concept. With this in view, a scheme of concept analysis was developed in science and test items were written for each…

This paper focuses on the problems of comparative educational research in developing societies and suggests theories for a new cross-cultural typology for schools related to four modes of instruction: memorizing; training; intellect developing; and problem solving. For ease of comparison, the descriptions of the types are classified under the same…

This study of chronic illness in the home originates in theoretical and practical questions posed by physicians, nurses, and biometricians. The study covers the following elements: The research plan, the patient sample, providing continued care, interviewing, classification of disease and mental status, effect of treatment program, classification…

The last 25 years of special education has seen the pendulum swing from over confidence in special class placement to current efforts to mainstream handicapped children. Characteristic of children entering school is variation in ability and learning style. Some of the children will be referred to special education not because of extreme learning…

The appendices to a report on the LIGRU Project, which deals with the reading of literature at comprehensive school level and comprises a goal analysis of the objectives of instruction, both in and with the help of literature, are provided in this volume. The comprehensive school is the Swedish compulsory nine-year school for pupils between 7 and…

Thirty-three Parent-Child Centers (PCCs) are grouped into five clusters according to thematic orientation of content or intent for parents' and children's programs in order to provide models which may be viewed as strata in selecting Centers as sampling points for Phase II of the national PCC evaluation--an in-depth study of project impact on…

Interest in quantifying nonverbal variables in human interaction has led to the development and application of several nonverbal observation systems. The authors present a selective overview of these approaches, briefly explaining the major assumptions in terms of their differences and similarities. Drawing largely from their own experiences in…

A study was conducted to determine whether language provided for the child in discriminating specific criteria helps him significantly to learn to create and hold criteria for sorting, a major difference in the theories of Vygotsky and Piaget. Specifically three questions are investigated: (1) whether 3- to 5-year-old black ghetto children can be…

Prompted by Piaget's suggestion that there might be qualitative differences in the thinking processes of children who read well as compared with those who read poorly, this study investigated the mental operations of multiple classification and class inclusion as possible characteristics required for a child to abstract and modify efficient…

To serve as a basis for establishing compatibility among the states in planning, implementing, and evaluating programs and services for persons with special needs and in reporting enrollments and other pertinent information, this pamphlet provides specific requirements of the Vocational Education Amendments of 1968, and classification systems for…

To fill a need for defining and describing 15 occupational clusters identified by the U.S. Office of Education for a comprehensive career education program in a Texas county, this federally funded analysis presents separately for each of the 15 clusters a rationale, methodology, subgroupings into job families and occupational listings, and a chart…

The bibliography is a compilation of annotated references on information sciences: information centers and special libraries and is volume II in a four-volume set on information sciences. It is a revision to the unlimited references in two earlier bibliographies, AD-829 001 and AD-829 002. Volume II includes references on technical information…