How can the triumph of Western liberalism be reconciled with the pictures of chaos, war, crime, terror, and poverty which continue to appear in the daily news? Does violence coexist, in a significant fashion, with capitalism and democracy? What role does education play in this context? In addressing these questions, this paper presents a framework…

This paper explores the ways liberal arts colleges and universities can conceptualize and design next generation service and learning programs that give more considered attention to the service dimension. A Service and Learning typology suggests four variations found on many campuses in which service and learning have some relationship: (1)…

This study compared the classification performance among parametric discriminant analysis, nonparametric discriminant analysis, and logistic regression in a two-group classification application. Field data from an organizational survey were analyzed and bootstrapped for additional exploration. The data were observed to depart from multivariate…

As the automated scoring of constructed responses reaches operational status, monitoring the scoring process becomes a primary concern, particularly if automated scoring is intended to operate completely unassisted by humans. Using actual candidate selections from the Architectural Registration Examination (n=326), this study uses Kohonen…

The causal model approach used in this study tested the cumulative hierarchical structure of the six major taxonomic levels of Bloom's Taxonomy by measuring the strengths of the linear relationships ( links'') between levels. (Editor)

The hypothesis that it is possible to find among a normal population a group with the same level of intelligence as a group of institutionalized retarded persons was confirmed in a study of 2,000 19-year-old males registering for military service. (Authors)

Libraries can serve many functions, and the type of library best for a particular school depends on how the library corresponds to the educational curriculum. (Author/MF)

The problem of the direct and inverted forms of adjective-noun subject headings which contain national adjectives is reexamined. A pattern based on subject categories is discovered which is different from the pattern based on work-frequency discussed in Harris' Subject Analysis. (11 references) (Author)

There are presently certain concepts, techniques, methodologies, and goals for processing services on which there is substantial professional agreement. A basic technique for evaluation would be to determine these areas of agreement and examine the extent to which a given library is applying them. (JB)

In the present investigation, the MMPI profile classification program was used to compare the representatives'' of three different sets of diagnostic prototypes. (Author)

Two of the originators of the DEG Project tell what it is, how it works and how such an approach can help teachers gain confidence in meeting the emotional needs of each child. (Editor)

ISDED, designed as an international classification system but adaptable to national systems, is an inter-departmental project of Unesco administered by the Office of Statistics. A three stage, five digit system by level, field and programme, ISCED consists of over 450 categories of education with their respective definitions. (JB)