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diSessa, Andrea A. – 1977
This paper discusses a number of educational concerns suggested by the computational metaphor which proposes the comparison of processes of mind to realizable or imaginable computer activities. Among the concerns discussed are those which include procedural modes of knowledge representation and control knowledge--knowing what to do. Also included…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Classification, Cognitive Processes, Computer Graphics
Haars, Venant – 1981
Fifty-six Dutch school children (aged 6-0 to 14-4 years) participated in a study designed to investigate their ability to reason with logical implication. They answered a total of 32 reasoning problems. Before or after each question they were asked a class inclusion question. A high degree of correspondence was found between class inclusion and…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Classification, Developmental Stages, Elementary Education
Milofsky, Carl – 1978
The paper offers an analysis of how the misclassification of school children as cognitively disabled for placement in public school special education classes may have positive as well as negative consequences. This approach is used to criticize the sort of unilateral prohibition of misclassification mandated by the Education for All Handicapped…
Descriptors: Classification, Conceptual Schemes, Elementary Secondary Education, Handicapped Children
President's Committee on Mental Retardation, Washington, DC. – 1978
The issue contains reports on seven new court cases regarding mental retardation and the law and updated information on 35 cases previously reported. Cases concern such issues as classification, commitment, education, employment, sterilization, and treatment. Also included is a feature article on the implications of Halderman v Pennhurst State…
Descriptors: Civil Liberties, Classification, Court Litigation, Education
New York State Education Dept., Albany. – 1977
A brief description is provided of the composition of the collection of materials on Adult Learning Services held by the Study of Adult Education in the New York State Education Department, and a list of the subject headings used for its book and vertical file collections. The alphabetically ordered list of approximately 350 terms used to index…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Agencies, Classification, Information Centers
Falk, Joyce Duncan – 1979
This examination of abstracting-indexing services for the field of history focuses on Historical Abstracts (HA) and America--History and Life (AHL), and their relationship to the American Bibliographical Center's Subject Profile Index (ABC-SPIndex). The history, scope, selection criteria, and classification arrangements of the two databases are…
Descriptors: Classification, Databases, History, Indexing
Miguel, Richard J.; And Others – 1979
The purpose of the first year's work of a two-year project was to identify education and work program characteristics that are indicators of the normative (work-centered) and personalistic (person-centered) dimensions of eighteen experiential education programs and to determine common characteristics and whether programs can be classified based on…
Descriptors: Classification, Definitions, Experiential Learning, Interviews
Creps, Earl – 1980
A three-part study of the forms of rhetorical criticism is offered. Part one reviews the nature of genre criticism, enumerates several concepts of form and the types of genre criticism they produce, and discusses the implications of this relationship between form and genre. Part two is an essay on the methodological implications of form-grounded…
Descriptors: Classification, Higher Education, Persuasive Discourse, Public Speaking
Copple, Carol E.; And Others – 1980
The purpose of this study is to identify dimensions of children's representational awareness as revealed by their verbalizations while drawing in a group situation. Subjects were 76 middle-class children in five preschool classes. Drawing sessions were audiotaped and observed by a non-participating adult who took notes and later transcribed the…
Descriptors: Classification, Freehand Drawing, Group Dynamics, Perception
Inglewood Public Library, CA. – 1979
As an aid to library administrators, professional staffs, and officials in making comparative evaluations of their own organization's position descriptions and in developing new position descriptions and classification specifications, this document describes 72 library-related positions and divides them into two major groups of classifications:…
Descriptors: Classification, Flow Charts, Job Analysis, Librarians
SMITH, EDWARD – 1965
THE EFFECTS OF FAMILIARITY ON THE PROCESSING OF STIMULUS AND MEMORIAL INFORMATION WERE INVESTIGATED IN TWO TASKS--ONE WHICH SUPPOSEDLY REQUIRED ONLY THE PERCEPTUAL RECOGNITION OF EACH STIMULUS WORD (E TASK) AND ONE WHICH REQUIRED A MEANINGFUL CATEGORIZATION OF EACH STIMULUS WORD (C TASK). FIFTY UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN UNDERGRADUATES WHO WERE PAID…
Descriptors: Classification, College Students, Information Processing, Memory
HEALD, J. HESTON – 1967
THE BACKGROUND, OPERATIONAL, AND PROCEDURAL EVENTS LEADING TO AND INCLUDED IN THE BUILDING OF THE "THESAURUS OF ENGINEERING AND SCIENTIFIC TERMS" ARE DISCUSSED. THE WORK WAS PERFORMED BY THE OFFICE OF NAVAL RESEARCH, AT THE REQUEST OF THE DIRECTOR, DEFENSE RESEARCH AND ENGINEERING, UNDER A SPECIALLY ESTABLISHED TASK NAMED PROJECT LEX.…
Descriptors: Classification, Development, Documentation, Engineering
STONE, DON C. – 1967
ONE OF THE PROBLEMS IN INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS OF TECHNICAL DOCUMENTS IS THE INTERPRETATION OF WORDS USED TO INDEX DOCUMENTS. SEMANTIC TOOLS, DEFINED AS CHANNELS FOR THE COMMUNICATION OF WORD MEANINGS BETWEEN TECHNICAL EXPERTS, DOCUMENT INDEXERS, AND SEARCHERS, PROVIDE ONE METHOD OF DEALING WITH THE PROBLEM OF MULTIPLE…
Descriptors: Classification, Correlation, Indexing, Information Retrieval
ASCHNER, MARY JANE; AND OTHERS – 1962
A SYSTEM FOR CLASSIFYING THOUGHT PROCESSES IN THE CONTEXT OF CLASSROOM VERBAL INTERACTION IS PRESENTED. THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE SYSTEM IS NECESSARY TO THE STUDY OF THE VERBAL PERFORMANCE OF TEACHERS AND STUDENTS TO ASSESS THE QUALITY OF THINKING THAT IS ELICITED AND EXPRESSED IN THE COURSE AND CONTEXT OF CLASSROOM OPERATION. VERBAL PERFORMANCES…
Descriptors: Classification, Classroom Communication, Cognitive Processes, Learning Processes
NEIDT, CHARLES O. – 1963
A REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE ON THE ROLE OF NONINTELLECTIVE FACTORS IN LEARNING WAS CONDUCTED TO IDENTIFY AREAS OF NEEDED RESEARCH. STUDIES WERE REVIEWED WHICH WERE CONSIDERED ILLUSTRATIVE OF PREVIOUS ATTEMPTS TO ASSESS NONINTELLECTIVE FACTORS IN A VARIETY OF LEARNING SITUATIONS. BASIC TO THE SYNTHESIS OF RESEARCH FINDINGS FROM THE REVIEW WAS A…
Descriptors: Classification, Learning, Learning Activities, Learning Theories
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