Some significant differences were discovered between individual and group sessions and among elementary, junior, and senior high students on three of the four theme classifications: (1) Self; (2) Significant Others, Authority Figures; (3) Significant Others, Peers; and (4) Ideas, Places, Things, and Time Topics. (Author/CJ)

Tested were the abilities of three- and four-year-olds to match a three-dimensional solid with a color photograph or black line sketch of it. Significant differences were found which indicated that factors of teacher and experience in an instructional unit were influential in the child's performance. (RS)

Review of work by many investigators in area of vocational behavior permits a taxonomy of a work values system, although divergence is noted on how to treat findings on assessment of person's value framework. Extensive references. (Author/CJ)

Use of an IBM 1401 computer and a single keypunch operation for changing a college book collection from Dewey decimal to Library of Congress classification; for acquisitions, accounting and circulation procedures; and for production of a list of periodical holdings. A mark-sense reproducer is used for the circulation system. (Editor)

Investigation supported by a Public Health Service Fellowship from the National Institute of Mental Health and by a grant from the University Committee on Research, The University of North Dakota.

Addresses the respective roles of prototypes and specific exemplars in children's categorization behavior. The ability of children and adults to abstract and recognize figural prototypes was examined using a prototype-plus-distortions design. (Author/RH)

When preschool children think of objects as organized into collections (e.g., forest, army) they solve certain problems better than when they think of the same objects as organized into classes (e.g., trees, soldiers). Present studies indicate preschool children occasionally distort natural language inclusion hierarchies (e.g., oak, tree) into the…

Investigates vocabulary of the humanities by analyzing terms used as entry points in leading encyclopedias and dictionaries in humanities. Categories that distinguish entry terms by precision and potential for effectiveness in subject access are proposed and a sample of entry terms is classified into these categories. Thirty-five sources are…

The authors propose a model for preparing special education teachers which accepts those differences among students that require categorical decisions for instructional pruposes but not those categories existing as mere historical artifacts. Three noncategorical teacher training programs are described, and six clusters of teacher competencies are…

An alternative analysis of the two-group single response variable design is proposed. It involves the classification of experimental units to populations represented by the two groups. Three real data sets are provided to illustrate the utility of the classification analysis. A table of sample sizes required for the analysis is presented.…

Suggests that the Vocational Card Sort is best used as a combined assessment and counseling technique that stimulates clients to project their idiosyncratic classifications of occupational values and interests. It should not be used as a self-administered interest inventory. (JAC)