Examines what can and should be done to clarify and/or resolve scientific conflicts with policy implications. Includes a typology for classifying controversies, mechanisms, and objectives with regard to scientific disputes with policy implications. This apparatus aims to show the differences in disputes and in approaches to deal with them. (JN)

Presents an alternative approach to the life cycle which avoids the creation of monolithic age categories and exclusive reliance upon the unidimensional index of chronological age. Data exemplify the potential utility of age status graphing in understanding the life cycle. (JAC)

The historical development of current controversy over the use of quantitative or qualitative approaches in evaluation is traced. (Author/PN)

The motor performance of 49 nonhandicapped children and 18 mildly and moderately retarded children (5-12 years old) was assessed to determine the appropriateness of their physical education instruction. Although 66 percent of Ss were correctly clasified, some nonhandicapped and mentally retarded children were misclassified. (Author/CL)

Provides five guiding principles helpful in cataloging, storing, and circulating teacher-made materials as well as commercially produced media. (Author/RK)

This article describes sources of occupational information available to the counselor in the field and indicates the advantages of each. The importance of career counseling in today's uncertain job market is discussed. Major schemes of classification in the world of work are identified. (Author)

Official translation from Chinese to English of words and phrases commonly used in education and library work. Classifications include sayings of Chairman Mao, revolutionary mass criticism, revolution in education, "May 7" cadre schools, teaching methods and materials, disciplines and curricula, school names and terms, and library…

Discusses the use of additive and substitutive nomenclature for chemical substances rather than classifying substances as organic or inorganic. (MLH)

Describes the Toy Lending Library, St. Paul, Minnesota: its goal, history, toy-classification system--how it works and what it does. System attempts to answer question: how does a toy lending library get the right toys to the right educator/child at the right time for maximum child development support?

Brent Ruben introduces readers to a framework that surveys, summarizes, and synthesizes a broad cross section of the contemporary writings on leadership. The book organizes that literature into five broad competency areas, each of which is composed of a number of themes, and provides a Leadership Competencies Scorecard Inventory that allows…

This paper advocates the use of nonparametric statistics. First, the consequence of using parametric inferential techniques under nonnormality is described. Second, the advantages of using nonparametric techniques are presented. The third purpose is to demonstrate empirically how infrequently nonparametric statistics appear in studies, even those…

Counseling and educational professionals are encouraged to understand the research behind the theory and the development of a measure of personality in addition to the application of the measure. Personality assessment, especially in relation to the Enneagram classification system of personality, has been dramatically changing. Personality…

This paper explores the representation of taxonomy, systematics and other aspects of science on selected natural history museum Web sites, using two different but related approaches. One uses a series of categories relating to the nature of science (derived from an evaluation of exhibitions) and applies these to each Web site. In essence, this…

Sociolinguistic research on varieties of language and language variation, along with the necessity for meeting "equivalence" in terms of the appropriateness of the variety to the context have been well recognized in the formulation of a translation theory. However, the treatment of variation has always been restricted to dialect and has not…