Procedures necessary for conducting facility inventories and space utilization studies for Idaho's higher education institutions are directed towards establishing a coordinated, comprehensive planning system. The specific objectives are to provide data necessary to plan intelligently for future facilities construction needs, and to provide some of…

High school and college students often are handicapped by their lack of or misuse of reading skills when using textual materials as learning resources. This paper describes the development of two investigative procedures that help individuals to identify, systematize, and overcome their reading problems. One procedure consists of intensive group…

The study examines post office mail processing equipment (MPE) maintenance positions on the basis of interviews conducted among maintenance mechanics and supervisors at 17 small, medium, and large mechanized post offices for the purpose of determining existing and desired maintenance practices and maintenance personnel policy. The study considers…

The practice of analyzing all available project children in as large a group as possible is considered not to be justifiable when distinct subgroups of pupils are represented. Instead, the approach suggested here determines the test score gain a pupil achieves from the beginning to the end of the year, with all of the pupil gain scores of a single…

The difficulty of intelligently and systematically selecting from the overwhelming curriculum and teacher background materials being produced and disseminated in values education is a problem for educators and teachers. This book focuses on alleviating the problem, making the choice easier for users of values materials. Chapter one describes a…

This project determines the extent to which similarity of teacher and student structuring of class materials is related to student performance on tests covering the materials. Information about how student and teacher structure the materials was obtained through a matching test. During the second stage of the project, three alternative procedures…

This is a second report of a study of the use of scientific and technical information in industrial and nonprofit settings. It focuses on mapping the information-communication behavior of the engineering division of the Southwest Research Institute. Data include questionnaires, library records, travel records, telephone records, and contractual…

The University of California at Davis's (UC) Agricultural Experiment Station (AES) was used as a case study for purposes of examining how one Land Grant Institution responded to charges that its research had not followed the mandate of the Hatch Act of 1887. Focusing on "rural, noncommercial" research, data were analyzed for fiscal years…

This work attempts to provide an overview of linguistic diversity in South Asia and to place this diversity in a cultural context. The work tries to describe the current state of knowledge concerning socially conditioned language variation in the subcontinent. Each of five major language families contains numerous mutually intelligible and…

The chief purposes of this book are the illustration of an analytical approach to tone languages, a methodology based upon recent linguistic advance, and the presentation of firsthand data on Mixteco and Mazateco, languages which represent two very different structural arrangements of linguistic tone. Part 1 describes some of the types of…

This document presents a classification of Western Queensland aboriginal languages based on a lexicostatistic methodology. Over 50 languages are considered and compared according to a cognate test list of 250 words. The resultant subgroups and groups are described and classified. An appendix includes the word list used for comparison and the terms…

The document comprises a transportable performance-based model for preparing occupational education leaders/administrators. Based on a graduate program developed and implemented at Illinois State University at Normal and Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, the model's taxonomy consists of seven broad performance areas: (1) program planning…

The procedure for setting educational goals described in this booklet, the first of three, is based on the belief that only through a school-community partnership can the best solutions be found and supported. It is also based on the belief that goal setting can proceed only after local needs are known. The booklet outlines in considerable detail…

A manipulandum-referenced taxonomy for response categories appropriate to primary education is presented. The tenability of automatic on-line evaluation of the different types of response when processing equipment of the sort that probably will be available to Southwest Regional Laboratory is preliminarily evaluated. (Author/SK)

The Language Acquisition Device, or LAD, is related to reading and intellectual development in the first of five papers on cognitive and affective characteristics of exceptional children. A discussion of the intellectual processes involved in learning focuses on the developmental stages of Piaget. A report on a task force to discuss terminology…