Sixty-four children in grades 2 and 5 were asked to recall items from six successively presented sets of categorized pictorial stimuli using one of four types of retrieval cues. Significant effects of grade level and type of cue (favoring subcategory cues) were found. (Author/JMB)

Moral education is seen as being concerned with three concepts (good/bad, praise/blame, right/wrong) from which Kohlberg's stages of moral development addresses only the second. (MJB)

A three dimensional classification of psychological attributes of media is proposed. Using this classification system to related media, learner, and task characteristics may lead to a rational approach to media selection. (Author/STS)

This study assessed the predictive utility of a classification-based model versus a representational memory-based model to account for the effects of verbal training on the acquired equivalence and distinctiveness paradigms. (Author/JMB)

The category item production task was used to obtain child norms and to investigate two alternative types of category bias reputedly shown by young children: (a) underinclusion of appropriate items; and (b) overinclusion of inappropriate items. Preschool and grade school children (n=144) were asked to produce verbal responses to four category…

This article demonstrates how to construct two types of graphs, the line plot, and the stem and leaf plot. States that these graphing techniques improve students' ability to understand tabular data. An instructional model is presented for directing lessons which use the two types of graphs. (JDH)

A method for teaching sight words to elementary level learning disabled children is proposed which relies on input organization, a strategy in which teachers reorganize information into small, related units for instruction. Also included are sample word categories, results of the method's use, and recommendations for use. (DB)

Examines the balkanization of adult education and the creation of barriers to communication within the field, suggests a typology of organizations, reviews the functions of a representative selection of organizations, and comments on the strengths and problems in the present arrangement. (JOW)

Discusses the advantages of vertical file collections for nonconventional literature, and describes the classification scheme used for fugitive literature by the Acid Rain Information Clearinghouse at the Center for Environmental Information. An annotated list of organizations and examples of titles they offer is provided. (8 notes with…

The Ravens Standard Progressive Matrices Test was administered to 48 subjects who then performed a card-sorting task under single- and competing-task conditions. Hick's Law and the Roth-Jensen procedure were used in task development. Complexity should have a more central role in speed of processing models of intelligence than ability to divide…

Attempts to define interrelationship of personality disorders. Discusses relationships between and among three major groupings of Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. Suggests that passive aggressive, avoidant, and borderline personality disorders serve as bridges between these groupings. Discusses placement within groupings with…

Equivalence of marginal likelihood of the two-parameter normal ogive model in item response theory and factor analysis of dichotomized variables was formally proved. Ordered and unordered categorical data and paired comparisons data were discussed, and a taxonomy of data for the models was suggested. (Author/GDC)

Explores differences in precision of terms used in subject access in the humanities, differentiating by the exactness with which the phenomena designated can be located in space and time. Samples of 200 terms from seven indexes in the humanities are classified according to five categories of terms. Six tables present results of data analyses. (22…

This article discusses many of the problems associated with testing the physical performance of people with varying abilities, offers ways to deal with the problems, and presents issues regarding testing. (MT)

Proposes classification system for short-term and time-limited treatments that descriptively orders different types of brief treatments. Uses system to compare and contrast conceptually planned models of short-term therapy. Discusses research and practice implications for counseling psychologists. (Author/NB)