Dissimilarity Linkage Analysis (DLA) is an extremely simple procedure for developing a typology from empirical attributes that permits the clustering of entities. First the procedure develops a taxonomy of types from empirical attributes possessed by entities in the sample. Second, the procedure assigns entities to one, and only one, type in the…

This article is a discussion, within the context of transformational grammar, of the formal relationships which exist between nominal, verbal, and adjectival roots in Swahili. The presentation is made with special reference to a set of subcategorizational rules which relate the given lexical categories. (Author/AMM)

A typology of teacher encounters was derived from observations of elementary school teachers for the purposes of ordering field data and indicating teaching experiences outside the classroom which affect, through sociocultural forces, classroom teaching behavior. From observations of teacher encounters in the auditorium, faculty room, school…

This volume of the Languages of the World Series contains: "(1.5) Unified List of American Indian Languages aboriginal to Latin America" (pages 1-120), and "(1.6) Classification of American Indian languages" (North, Central, and South America, pages 121-50). For each language, language family, or other group, information is…

The idea of pseudo-classification based on external relevance is introduced and compared with the more usual classifications derived by associative techniques. A general model for an information retrieval system using term classification is described. The derivation of a set of operators, or perturbations, for adjusting pseudo-classification and…

The International Standard Classification of Occupations was developed to provide a systematic basis for presentation of occupational data relating to different countries in order to facilitate international comparisons. A second objective was to provide a system which developing countries could use in formulating their national occupational…

The scope of Training Abstracts Service (TAS) coverage is explained, along with the abstracts and their production, use of the TAS classification scheme, access to source materials, and information on ordering from the TAS. Appendix 1 contains the TAS classification schedules: general; national considerations; the educational system; training…

This document is the second part of the report of the African Education Research (AER) project. It presents a classification of 416 research projects undertaken by Africans on education issues in Africa during the period from 1970 to 1974. It is designed to provide Africans and Africanists with a resource to assess the state of the art and to…

This paper constructs a typology of the philosophical assumptions of a humanistic, competency based, teacher education program. At the same time, the paper fills in the assumptions of the typology. It is indicated that the listing of assumptions is characterized by completeness, sequential ordering, and the fact that it is non-compromised. The…

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…