Eleven ideas that will help you control printing tools and supplies more easily while cutting down on wasteful methods in instruction. (Editor)

Comments favorably on article by Ray E. Hosford in same issue, but expresses concern over the heavy emphasis on social modeling. (Author)

Comments on article by Ray E. Hosford in same issue. (CJ)

Psychotherapeutic intervention, while failing to produce consistent gross differences between the experimental and control group, did lead to subtle but important changes that could be interpreted as contributing meaningfully to training, particularly if a psychoanalytic frame of reference is accepted. Reprints available from author at: Counseling…

"The general goals of this essay are (1) to improve the rigor and forecasting power of curriculum design and (2) to aid in the development of a set of basic notions or commonplaces for a technologically based conceptual structure for the field of curriculum design." (Author)

Techniques for making Christmas gifts, greeting cards, holiday figures, and room decorations. (CO)

Urges cooperation between nursery school teachers who prefer the intuitive approach to education and research psychologists who emphasize the need for using scientific methodology in studying children and their development. (DR)

This article elaborates on the misrepresentations in Nagy and Griffiths' review of Piagetian research (EJ 275 527). The limitations of their treatment of important methodological and theoretical issues is discussed. (Author/PN)

Demonstrates the property of inclusiveness of document retrieval systems where documents are indexed by unweighted terms and in which query search patterns are Boolean functions of descriptors and presents three methods for determining a partial ordering on a set of system responses to these queries. Eleven sources are listed. (FM)

Describes a method of iterative searching that uses local metrical clustering in the formulation of additional searches by producing searchonyms, terms which are synonymous to keywords in the context of a single query. The method was applied to a database containing Hebrew and Aramaic text. Seven references are listed. (FM)

Suggests evaluation strategies (principles of procedure) for use by curriculum evaluators who work in the "illuminative,""responsive," and "democratic" modes. Principles include independence, disinterest, negotiated access, negotiation of boundaries, negotiation of accounts, publication, confidentiality, and accountability. (DB)