Needs analysis is often ambiguous, leading to five types of misconceptions: (1) information needs can be easily identified; (2) information is best handled in institutional settings; (3) all information is of potentially equal value; (4) given sufficient information, decisions can be made; (5) information and education are unrelated. (Author/JM)

Deals with some of the difficult questions that arise when one attempts to handle Black English in the context of helping children learn to read and write. (Author/JM)

Investigates on a cross-cultural basis the dual hypothese of (1) the merging into one of two or more differently inflected grammatical categories and (2) faulty mastery of difficult syntax. Hypotheses are examined for causes of children's distinctive communication technique, and the entire question of the significance of black/white difference in…

Paper presented at the Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages Convention, Washington, D.C., February 1972. (DD)

Describes the problems and progress toward cultural understanding between professionals and community persons in operating the Watts Health Center. (DM)

A report of classroom activities intended to alleviate the day-to-day communications problems" which students face. (Author/RD)

Explains how elementary, high school, and college students communicated silently via the chalkboard. (SW)

Results of exploratory investigation indicate that failures to communicate management information systems (MIS) concepts can result from the sender's communication style being inappropriate to the receiver's cognitive type. Details of the research methodology, analysis of variance, and summary of results are given, as well as recommendations for…

To produce a curriculum guide that is practical calls for an awareness of the working context of the practitioner and an ability to translate that intuitive awareness into an explicit description which captures the essence of what teaching is. Health education project materials are used to illustrate the translating demands. (RM)

Examined problems in communicating emergency information to multi-ethnic communities using a sample of flood warning recipients in a town with a large Mexican American segment. Results showed Mexican Americans were more skeptical, were less likely to evacuate and were less likely to interpret messages as indicating personal danger. (RC)