DESCRIBED AND EXEMPLIFIED IS A CODING SYSTEM FOR TRANSLATING ON-GOING BEHAVIOR OF CHILDREN AND ADULTS INTO A NUMERICAL LANGUAGE, THUS PERMITTING THE DATA TO BE SUMMARIZED AND ANALYZED BY COMPUTER. APPROACH IS BASED ON OBSERVATION. THE OBSERVER, WHO BECOMES PART OF THE ENVIRONMENT, REPORTS INTO A TAPE RECORDER THE RESPONSES OF THE MAIN FIGURE BEING…

Part two of a seven-section, final report on the Multi-Disciplinary Graduate Program in Educational Research, this document contains discussions of quantification and reason analysis. Quantification is presented as a language consisting of sentences (graphs and tables), words, (classificatory instruments), and grammar (rules for constructing and…

Discusses the features of automated information systems (AIS) in local governments. Examines three perspectives of the use and impact of automated information. These perspectives consider AIS as a rationalizing force, as controlled both by a self-serving technological elite and by its own technological imperatives, and as not qualitatively…

An intensive longitudinal investigation was conducted on the social behavior of two three-year old boys in a nursery school setting over a four-month period to analyze observable stimuli in each subject's immediate social environment for the main determinants of his social interactive behavior. It was hypothesized that the daily rate of social…