A few statistics concerning teaching English as a second language in Manitoba are provided. (HP)

The developmentally, physically, and psychiatrically disabled who must cope with institutionalization, disability, and their humanity, are the people whom the institution library serves. The librarian faces the challenge of professionalism, creativity, and awareness to care for and about these people. (Author/MBR)

Types of presentations for quantitative data are defined and illustrated, and their attributes are discussed with recommendations of formats for specific purposes. (Author/STS)

Factors such as the "internal/external" status of the chief negotiator and expressed attitudes regarding the perceived benefits of collective negotiations were found to be related to the stage of bargaining at which a settlement was reached, as well as the number of hours spent in negotiation. (Author)

Analysis showed that student dissatisfaction with the level of influence in collegiate decision-making correlated with the students' professed willingness to join a union. (Author/IRT)

The article examines the relative sizes of the nation's partially sighted, legally blind but not functionally blind, and functionally blind populations as a function of age. (Author/CL)

Using a research design employing cross-sectional and longitudinal data, the analysis explores whether budgeting conforms more closely to a bureaucratic or coalitional model of organization. The data suggest that coalitional behavior is most easily discernible in budget decision-making when resources are relatively scarce. (Author/IRT)

Examines three hypotheses regarding the relative significance public bureaucracies assign to evaluation, examination, and seniority in making promotions. The significant effects of regional differences are of special interest because they indicate the degree to which intraorganizational advancement criteria are ultimately shaped by the…

The students in a basic course on probability and statistics in Trinidad demonstrated that the number of fatal highway accidents appeared to follow a Poisson distribution while the length of time between deaths followed exponential distribution. (MN)

Presenting statistical data, this article indicates that the population of Appalachia has grown nearly as fast as that of the nation between 1970 and 1976, while Appalachian per capita money income has continued to approach that of the national level. (JC)

Examines the implications of using the national median score for selecting children for Title I participation. (Author/AM)

Attempts to familiarize the reader with the current extent of use of the legal assistant, to analyze the major sources of attorney resistance to the more extensive use of the legal assistant, and to make predictions of the extent to which legal assistants will be utilized within the next ten years. (Author/RK)

Divorce rates in North America have increased sharply during the last century. Though this fact may best be understood as the result of many factors, one of them is the law. This paper provides a brief history of Canadian divorce laws and their relationship to divorce rates. (Author)

Discusses four basic aspects of data reference work: 1) How files are created as related to the main sources for acquisition of data files; 2) What publications help to identify available data files; 3) What variables appear in which data files; 4) What information about the physical medium of file storage is needed to use the file on a computer.…

Further explores the difficulties pertaining to limitations in the use and interpretation of the Index of Dissimilarity demonstrates some of the systematic biases resulting from these inadequacies and provides a mathematical refinement which overcomes some of the major problems inherent in the use of this index. (Author/AM)