Examines the conflict between one group of educators which is calling for a more complete, precise, expanded vocabulary and another group, which is calling for fewer terms and simpler meanings in the development of evaluation terminology. (CMV)

Openness is a condition in a relationship which depends on certain traits. Discusses the traits necessary to encourage the establishment of the condition of openness and to support this condition as it appears within the relationship. (Author/RK)

An historical review of definitions of visual literacy is summarized by the statement, "the transmission of meaning visually is what visual literacy is all about." To be visually literate is to be able to gain meaning from what we see and to be able to communicate meaning to others through the images we create. Three assumptions, taken from the…

In spite of polls showing lack of confidence in public schools, the author suggests that schools are not doing a bad job, but that they are not doing a good job of communicating the rationale and goals of school programs. A good vehicle for communication is the community school. (KC)

This paper presents a rationale and a conceptual framework for a wider research project dealing with mathematical communication, and in particular with actions performed by interlocutors whenever they wish to clarify their use of a symbol, a word or an expression. The aim of such actions is often to repair a communicational breach resulting from…