Three preschoolers performed four sorts with stimulus cards--an untaught target sort and three directly taught alternating sorts considered to self-instruct the target performance. Accuracy increased first in the skill sorts and then in the untaught target sorts. All subjects generalized to new target sorts. Correct spontaneous self-instructions…

Chest pain was identified as a specific medical problem space, and disease classes were modeled to define it. Results from a test taken by 628 medical residents indicate a second-order factor structure that suggests that chest pain is a multidimensional problem space. Implications for medical education are discussed. (SLD)

Highlights the move towards a practice of storytelling and personal, aesthetic reflections that deliberately challenges the boundaries of the reserved space for these things in Western culture. Discusses academic storytelling and the limits of conventional knowledge; storytelling and the social turn in composition; and examining experience in…

Explores the use of linear models and a combination of neural networks and linear classifiers to create a hybrid hierarchical mixture of experts (HME) model. Results confirm that using the hierarchical structure of the classification vocabulary improves categorization performance. (AEF)

Presents a bibliometric methodology that provides a general overview of scientific disciplines with special attention to their interrelation. This work aims to establish a tentative typology of disciplines and research areas according to their degree of interdisciplinarity, measured through a series of indicators based on Institute for Scientific…

Discusses electronic records management in the federal government. Highlights include managing electronic mail; information technology planning, systems design, and architecture; updating conventional records management; integrating electronic records management with other information technology systems; challenges of end-user training; business…

Explores the development of a classification system for two-year institutions that can provide a framework for analysis and contribute to the discourse in public policy. The proposed classification system is based on cluster analyses using data from the National Center for Education Statistics' Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System…

Examines and discusses the utility of the classification systems proposed for community colleges from the perspective of the American Association of Community Colleges. Provides insights for understanding the differences among community colleges. Concludes size appears to be the most important factor driving proposed categorization systems. (NB)

Presents a taxonomy of organizational characteristics that was developed as part of a large-scale job analysis project that reviewed 315 organizations. A hierarchical taxonomy of organizational characteristics was developed with six construct domains: organizational structure, leadership, human resources systems and practices, goals, and…

Presents a part of a larger study attempting to retrieve the versions of the child implicit in the everyday life of a literature classroom. Focuses on a children's novel, "Magpie Island" (Thiele, 1974), and the classroom talk about that novel. Findings reveal that the version of the child implicit in the novel and that enacted in the classroom…

Whether preschoolers extend count nouns to other members of the same noun category was studied with 87 French- and 45 Spanish-speaking children. Results suggest that mapping between count nouns and object categories may be a universal phenomenon, although mappings between adjectives and associated applications vary among languages. (SLD)

Two parallel studies were performed with 12 American college students and 12 traditional Itzaj-Mayan adults each to investigate universal and cultural features of folkbiological taxonomies and inductions. Results show cultural consensus among both groups in taxonomies of local mammals. These taxonomies had similar relationships to scientific…

Discusses diagnostic and functional classification, assessment, and treatment approaches for school refusal behavior. Diagnostic classification focuses on separation anxiety disorder, specific phobia, social phobia, depression, and truancy. Functional classification focuses on the maintaining consequences of the behavior, such as avoidance of…

Discusses problems associated with manually created or maintained hyperdocument links and the need for automatic methods, describes a system for the automatic detection and management of various links, and presents a case study of a World Wide Web hyperbase for the Australian parliament. (Author/LRW)

Asked children and adults to recall events from "Sesame Street." Found that subjects' memory was influenced by causal factors (number of causal relations to other events, place in the story's causal chain) and this influence increased with age; children recalled actions, whereas adults recalled protagonists' goals; and children's recall…