An attempt is made to determine whether a procedure requiring each member of a rating group to rank a subset of fifteen goals selected at random from one hundred and six goals would produce results that were, in effect, equivalent to having each member of a rating group rate each of the one hundred and six goals. The ratings of the one hundred and…

Communication Systems Managers have expressed interest as to the need for and desirability of continuation of the Communications Yeoman (CYN) service rating in consideration of changes which have occurred in naval communications and the Radioman general rating. The objective of the research is to determine and analyze the current and continuing…

This study was designed to investigate (a) the feasibility of modifying an existing question classification scheme for use in measuring the inquiry level of teachers' questions and (b) the relationship between the inquiry level of teacher questioning and student achievement. Data for the study were collected from three specific classroom…

The Classification Research Group has produced a number of reports which explore the theoretical, as opposed to special, classification schemes and worked out their applications in detail in a few selected disciplines. A short and simplified introduction to these reports, which are published under the title "Classification and Information…

All graphic reproduction processes are a means of communication. The purpose of this study was to identify and classify common elements of graphic communication technology into a structure representing the various industrial techniques. Six graphic reproduction processes were identified as relief, intaglio, planography, screen process,…

The problems of modeling a process as complex as reading are discussed, including such factors as the lack of agreement surrounding definitions of modeling, varying levels of rigor within and between models, the disjunctive categories within which models fall, and the difficulty of synthesis across fields which employ very different technical…

Committee hearings are among the most important documents issued by Congress because they contain the transcript of testimony given before the committees. Here presumably the major proponents and opponents of a bill voice their opinions, recite facts and support their beliefs. The transcripts of proceedings of Congressional committee hearings are…

Nearly all organizations are faced with problems of classifying and coding financial data, management and technical information, components, stores, etc. and need to apply some logical and meaningful system of identification. This report examines the objectives and applications of classification and coding systems and reviews eight systems…

Proposes a new conceptual basis for visualizing the organization of information, or knowledge, which differentiates between the concept "vectors" for a field of knowledge represented in a multidimensional space, and the state "vectors" for a person based on his understanding of these concepts, and the representational…

A book titled "The Processes of Thinking" by Marc Belth is reviewed. (JD)

Lists six steps for developing and maintaining a filing system for teachers' resource and reference materials. (MKM)

First and fifth graders sorted cards into two piles based on the orientation of a T figure. Sorting took place in the presence of irrelevant information which did or did not contrast in line slope with the target, or in the absence of irrelevant information. (Author/JMB)

Government and business have become more concerned with measuring market performance in terms of consumer satisfactions and dissatisfactions (CS/D). This research is concerned with the question of how one ought to measure CS/D. Offers a taxonomy of alternative CS/D measures and presents data from a national urban study of consumer complaints to…

This study measured the feature selection and classification ability of 213 children between the ages of four and sixteen through an analysis of their sorting performance from a developmental point of view. (CM)

Wide ranges of functional abilities existing among the disabled led to the development and application of a quantitative method of evaluating severity of functional impairment for rehabilitative purposes. (BP)