A test of the relative effects of verbal definitions and numerical examples as correctional feedback in a computer-assisted learning task. (MM)

Essay on the relationship between the social sciences and humanities, and its implications for social studies education. (SE)

The conceptual approach to learning strives to arrange the best environment and materials possible for learning and simply allows it to happen. Basic to the provision of such a vital teaching learning" climate is the thoughtful identification of statements acceptably usable in structuring such a curriculum. (Author)

The author presents and explains a classification scheme intended to define learning behavior in terms of cognitive principles, affective principles, transformational principles, and heuristic principles. (LS)

Refutes the questions raised by Tuinman and Blanton in this issue concerning his reading comprehension model and its validation. Restates his purpose for examining this area of reading. Tables and bibliography. (RW)

Article addressed itself to the question of whether adult education is a profession, considered terms associated with occupational professionalization, and discussed some alternative stances to lifelong learning and lifelong education on the part of adult educators. (Author/RK)

Discusses the history and philosophy of the premise of rural localism from Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty to its present relationship to the New Federalism of the Reagan administration. Concludes that the concept and its consequences should be reexamined by those in the rural social work profession. (Author/BRR)

Sketches a perspective of competence and its underlying assumptions. Compares and contrasts this perspective with McCroskey's conceptualization (ERIC ED 203 401). Discusses the implications of a relational competence approach for theory and pedagogy. (PD)

Proposes a comprehensive definition of permanency planning and delineates its major components. (Author/RH)

Characteristics of heresy are outlined. The heresy hunt, in which heresy is labeled and heretics are suppressed, serves as an anxiety-relieving ritual for institutional elites and facilitates their dominance within the institution. A case study of heresy, the "modernist controversy" in Roman Catholicism, is examined. (Author/RM)

M.S. Horner has been criticized for defining "success" to her subjects in her research on fear-of-success. The present study, which provided an ambiguous verbal lead, showed low incidence of fear-of-success, because subjects themselves were allowed to define "success." (GC)

The editor introduces a special issue on myths in gifted education. He suggests that myths deal with three major topics: definitions of the gifted and talented, identification, and programs. He concludes with a list of 14 questions concerning alternative approaches. (CL)

Outlines the Universal Availability of Publications (UAP) program and the place therein of the UAP Congress. Presents the observations made by the Preparatory Committee for the congress on the UAP programme and on a number of problems concerning the disparities between developed and undeveloped countries in publication availability. (Author/JL)

Survey of 56 public reference librarians from New York, Ohio, and Pennsylvania reveals that they perceive reference service as comprising question answering (34 percent); locating information (30 percent); service (17 percent); providing materials (7 percent); aiding readers in library use (4 percent); telephone referral (2 percent); 100 percent…