This report describes recent efforts to modify, test, and evaluate an experimental online database consisting of 15 vendor-supplied, controlled subject vocabularies or thesauri. The experimental database, called the Vocabulary Switching System (VSS), is designed to enhance search strategies and ultimately retrieval performance for users of online…

The classification behavior of male and female college students was compared with that of healthy, well-educated older males and females. On the whole, the results failed to confirm other published evidence maintaining that aging is marked by conceptual deficits or a regressed mode of cognitive functioning. (Author/CS)

This article attempts to construct a classification system for those places where degrees can be acquired without the normal work output or residency requirements that are expected at all accredited institutions or that are candidates for accreditation by the six regional accrediting bodies. (Author)

A classification task, involving the sorting of pictures of animals and plants into major orders and classes, was administered to 12 year old students from four schools in Great Britain. Students with above average intelligence did better if they had been taught by the Nuffield method. Students below average did better if they had been taught by a…

Article discussed grouping and how it interpretation determines the way in which we live. (RK)

Enquiry learning can produce impressive cognitive and affective outcomes. However, there are different types/levels of enquiry. This hierarchy can be used to assess the degree of enquiry of an activity, to suggest how the enquiry level of an activity might be adjusted, to design enquiry activities, and to better sequence enquiry activities during…

Reports the results of experiments in document clustering using three well-known test collections. (Author)

Young children usually prefer to classify objects on the basis of shape rather than color. The present study explored this phenomenon with a stimulus matching test and a component selection test. (ST)

Investigates socioeconomic influences on conceptual development (classificatory behaviors) of third and sixth grades. (DP)

A model for explaining structural variations between work units within the complex organization is presented. Based upon an analysis of the impact of task difficulty and task variability on intraorganizational structure, a taxonomy of alternative work-unit structures is derived. The taxonomy suggests that work units within a complex organization…

This bibliography contains 143 listings under six main headings, with some overlapping of items. The stress is on recent works which update a 1969 bibliography of 400 items. (Author)

Discussed is whether sociocultural deprivation is a cause of secondary mental retardation or whether socioculturally different would be a more appropriate term to apply to such children. (DB)

Responded to is an article by Michael Herrick suggesting that disadvantaged children be provided with special educational services offered learning disabled children. (DB)