Describes a framework for building "story traces" (compact global views of a narrative) and "story projects" (selections of key elements of a narrative) and their applications in text understanding and classification. The resulting "abstract story traces" provide a compact view of the underlying narrative's key…

Discusses text categorization and Web site classification and proposes a three-step classification system that includes the use of Web pages linked with the home page. Highlights include the k-nearest neighbor (k-NN) approach; improving performance with a feature selection method and a term weighting scheme using HTML tags; and similarity…

The Library of Congress has two new classification schemes for organizing and accessing materials relating to the law of nations and international relations. This article examines the rationale for replacing the JX classification and the process behind the adoption of the KZ (law of nations) and JZ (international relations) classifications. The…

Explaining that academia is undergoing intense scrutiny by legislators and the public with respect to its accountability, examines some common ethical boundaries in the profession of academia and opportunities for ethics failure to occur, suggests a typology of ethics failure, and explores the response to ethics failure and its consequences for…

Serves as introduction and background for remaining papers in this issue which describe major pieces of Army's Selection and Classification Project (Project A). Outlines principal objectives, methodology, and research design of Project A. Identifies overall objective of the project: to generate instrumentation and validity information database…

Describes events that led up to the decision to create a Request for Proposals for the Army's Selection and Classification Project (Project A) and considers the conditions that made it possible. Also discusses the conditions that seem necessary to maintain such a project over the course of its life cycle. (Author/NB)

Provides an overview of the use of models in instructional design. Highlights include a definition of the term model; types of models, including conceptual, procedural, mathematical, and prescriptive; procedures for model development; classification of models in the literature; and alternative techniques for model validation. (Contains 38…

Discusses pattern classification of images by computer and describes the Two Domain Method in which expert knowledge is acquired using multidimensional scaling of judgments of dissimilarities and linear mapping. An application of the Two Domain Method that tested its power to discriminate two patterns of human blood leukocyte distribution is…

Analyzes the complexities surrounding the concept of dialogue in evaluation through a critical examination of current theory and practices. Uses a descriptive typology based on genre, process, goal, evaluator identity, orientation, and epistemology to analyze two vignettes of dialogue in evaluation. (Author/SLD)

Presents a method for handling educational data in which students belong to more than one unit at a given level, but there is missing information on the identification of the units to which students belong. The method, which involves setting up a cross-classified model, is illustrated with longitudinal data on students' progress in English. (SLD)

This monograph identifies, analyzes, and judges 22 evaluation approaches used in program evaluation. Two approaches, labeled psuedoevaluations, are politically oriented and often used to misrepresent a program's value. The remaining 20, judged legitimate, are categorized by their orientations, and rated for their value. (SLD)

Considers the nature of information and the field of librarianship. Topics include library philosophy; and library practice, including authority, cataloging, classification, epistemology, logic, ontology, and mind. (LRW)

Discusses changes in accepted approaches to teaching and learning, shifts in psychological and pedagogical theory towards a constructivist view of learning, and the consequences of these theoretical shifts for computer assisted learning. Explains a classification scheme for constructivism that provides a framework for looking at constructivist…

Describes key aspects of an integrative framework that may help evaluators move beyond paradigm wars and the segmentation of evaluation practices. Proposes a scheme for categorizing evaluation methods with four inquiry modes, or clusters of methods: description, classification, causal analysis, and values inquiry. (Author/SLD)

The link between classification and knowledge is explored. The strengths and limitations of four classificatory approaches (hierarchies, trees, paradigms, and faceted analysis) are described in terms of their ability to reflect, discover, and create new knowledge. Examples are provided of the way in which knowledge and the classification process…