In a schematic concept formation task, second and fifth graders were required to sort 60 computer-generated, 8-sided polygons into two classes. The results indicated that age differences in schematic concept formation are due more to the efficiency of information use than to differences in strategy or the selection of information to be used. (ST)

One hundred sixty sibling pairs from two child families were sampled for sibling interaction behaviors as they relate to measures of categorization style. The study provides additional evidence of the importance of a child's siblings to his cognitive development. (Editor/RK)

Author used a study of writing ability in the age group 11 to 18 and presented a model, which seeks to distinguish various types of audience-orientation in pupils when they are engaged on a piece of written work. (Author/RK)

This study was conducted to analyze the classification ability of middle class, culturally diverse, and visually impaired children after instruction in a Science Curriculum Improvement Study (SCIS) unit. The SCIS unit was effective in improving student abilities to classify. (PS)

Using Data from empirical Studies available on the various dimensions of faculty stress, this article suggests implications for organizational design in academe. The author interprets academic behavior in terms of two criteria -- organizational effectiveness and academic freedom. (Author)

Discusses nine of the most serious limitations of the office landscape concept: status screens, noise level, privacy problem, hazard control, security, unjustifiable changes, thermal environment, storage, and future planning. (Author/MF)

Induction refers to categorizing sensory experience and substitution to interchanging similar objects. If similar items are functionally identical and near the focus of attention at nearly the same time, similarity impedes learning (interference). If either condition is not fulfilled, similarity aids learning (transfer). (DD)

Research on which portions of this study are based was performed under a National Science Foundation Grant and a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. (VM)

A significant positive correlation between multiple classification was found, in testing 65 children aged 6 to 8 years, at the stage of concrete operations. This is interpreted as support for the existence of a structure d'ensemble of operational schemes in the period of concrete operations. (Authors)

Study compared the relative power of the Taxonomic, Semantic Differential, and Sense Impression categories in the recall behavior of children. (Authors)

There is little definitive research to support coeducational grouping as the optimal grouping pattern for first grade boys and girls. (Authors)

Multiple classification refers to the combination of the common attribute of one class with the common attribute of another class such that the multiple class is defined by the simultaneous presence of both attributes. (Authors)

Purpose of the study was to evaluate the effectiveness of a hierarchically arranged instructional program in multiple classification, which refers to the ability to define a class by two or more attributes simultaneously. (Authors/MB)