DISISS (Design of Information Systems in the Social Sciences) is a research project financed by OSTI, which began in January 1971. The objective of the project is to carry out research necessary for the effective design of information systems in the social sciences. The aim of this part of the DISISS project is the application of statistical…

The "cluster college arrangement" is discussed in this model for reorganization of the College of DuPage. The basic idea is to provide, within the framework of the parent institution, several educational communities small enough to enable students and faculty members to work closely toward reasonable educational goals. The following…

Oakton Community College (Illinois) opened in 1970 with the proviso to have five or six groupings of professionals directly concerned with the learning process. To meet stated goals, two basic departures from the usual academic practice were (1) to hire a minimum of line administrators, and (2) to abandon subject area departments and organization.…

A factor rotation scheme is presented which has a property that is interesting for examining factor-structure hypotheses. Given several clusters of tests the orthogonal bounds scheme produces factors which contain these clusters in some optimal sense. (Author)

This report describes a 1-year effort at San Francisco State College to incorporate as part of a Cycle 5 Teacher Corps Project some aspects of competency-based education in the instruction of the Teacher Corps interns. A 3-hour weekly course in curriculum and instruction occurring for the entire 1970-71 academic year served as the vehicle of…

Students in grades 4, 6, and 8 were required to indicate whether or not a stimulus word belonged in either of two semantic categories that were held in memory. Results indicated that even for the youngest children semantically similar categories required less search time than dissimilar categories. (GO)

Interresponse time (IRT) data were used to investigate the hypothesis that the learning to cluster (effectively organizing presented material) phenomenon should be interpreted as the result of a retrieval strategy. A systematic increase of category exit criterion should produce an increase in clustering because more category words should be…

The literature of bibliometrics suggests that the results of bibliometric studies can be of practical use in libraries by providing a scientific basis for collection management decisions. Reports on the application of these studies are virtually nonexistent and a number of reasons for this are suggested. (EM)

The role of the coauthor relationship in the structure of informal communications networks within disciplines is explored, and the validity of coauthor graphs used to map these relationships is tested for both small and large databases. (CLB)

While there are many ways to differentiate among community colleges (size, control, student characteristics, etc.), there have been few attempts to categorize them. The Carnegie Foundation's classification system, published first in 1971 and since revised several times, categorizes research universities, comprehensive institutions, liberal arts…

Trade and industrial educators are finding it necessary to provide individuals with a multiplicity of skills to meet the needs of the nation's scientific and technological complex. The cluster skill concept should be initiated in the pre-employment training program for trade and industrial education. (AG)

Results indicate that responses are not organized per se, but that response grouping is mediated by stimulus categories. (Author)

Purpose of this project was to devise a program for a teaching machine which would increase the ability of subjects to perceive alternatives in their environment and to facilitate the integration of dimensions. (Author)

Results show the major effect of word association over rhyming as an organizational basis in a list where either or both types are possible. (Author/MB)

Results of three experiments affirm prior research concerned with the distinction between associative and encoding factors in free recall. (Author/MB)