The clustering technique of instruction is described. Clustering is defined as "an active group exchange and/or interchange of three or more people that center their attention around a particular objective." There are multiple and expansive cluster shapes that can be used by a class for receiving and offering ideas and information. The most…

Man's knowledge may be conceptualized and ordered into four domains or classes--formal knowledge, descriptive knowledge, prescriptive knowledge, and praxiological knowledge. In today's rapidly changing world of work, the key saleable skills are flexibility and adaptability. A secondary school program based entirely on the formal, descriptive, and…

This report on the NCERD/Teacher Corps competency-based teacher education project (CBTE) is an assessment of the extent to which the project's objectives were realized. Two methods of inquiry were employed. The principal method of inquiry was interviewing key participants on the Teacher Corps program. The secondary method employed was a review and…

A "world of work map" based on the data/ideas and people/things work task dimensions is described and suggestions are provided for its use in career guidance. (Author)

Examined the maintenance of cumulative-cluster and cluster rehearsal strategies on free recall tasks as a function of amount of strategy training. Subjects were 50 elementary school students in third and fourth grades. (Author/MP)

If you administer a middle or junior high school in an old building, the traditional plant need not be a liability. Discusses a cluster organization as a pilot program for seventh grade students entering junior high grades. (Author/RK)

An example of the use of the cluster approach in a reading/language arts program for gifted first-graders (in a classroom with peers of varying ability) illustrates how this approach allows gifted students to work with others who have similar abilities and provides time-saving opportunities for teachers and modeling opportunities for non-gifted…

A Monte Carlo study was made of the recovery of cluster structure in binary data by five hierarchical techniques, with a view to finding which data structure factors influenced recovery and to determining differences between clustering methods with respect to these factors. (LMO)

A discussion of recent developments in foreign language lexicology instruction precedes suggestions for adopting a Hallidayan functional framework, within which the general interpersonal, ideational, and textual functions of lexis can be distinguished as much more than exemplification of syntactic structure. (CB)

Suggests clustering can help students of any ability level draw upon latent images and ideas, generate more original sentences, and experiment with metaphor and simile. (MS)

Paper addresses the question of whether occupations can be meaningfully grouped on the basis of personality dimensions by cluster analysis. (Authors)

The fact that the suggestion to cluster was capable of offsetting social class differences in recall is discussed in terms of Jensen's recommendations for differential education of middle- and lower-class children. (Authors)

The first installment of a 3-part Building Cost File designed to provide readers with a basic framework for acquiring and using their own data. Discusses the myths and realities of cost data and cost analysis, describes how the file is put together, and presents an actual high school cost analysis (see EA 503 951) prepared under the rules set out…

The most significant finding is that classification according to complete similarity not only occurs much earlier than reported by Inhelder and Piaget, but also does not follow the developmental course reported by Inhelder and Piaget. (Author)

Preschool, first-grade, and fifth-grade children served as Ss in 2 experiments designed to test the developmental hypothesis that memorizing and perceiving are functionally undifferentiated for the young child, with deliberate memorization only gradually emerging as a separate and distinctive form of cognitive encounter with external data.…