This report was prepared by the Careers and Curricula Program, which is a career development and guidance program sponsored by The Center for Social Organization of Schools. As one of five Center programs which develop scientific knowledge of the schools' effects upon students and utilize this information to improve educational practices, this…

The purpose of this paper is to suggest a technique of cluster analysis which is similar in aim to the Interactive Intercolumnar Correlation Analysis (IICA), though different in detail. Two methods are proposed for extracting a single bipolar factor (a "contrast compenent") directly from the initial similarities matrix. The advantages of this…

The relation between individual differences in verbal ability and memory for order was investigated. Results indicated that (1) order and item information may be retained separately; (2) verbal ability is related to short-term recall but not recognition of order; and (3) transformation of order at output increases the relation. (Author/RD)

Taxonomic category encoding was studied in 160 second and fourth grade students, both low-socioeconomic status Blacks and middle-class Whites. Three items were displayed sequentially, to be recalled later. The results provided conclusive evidence of the availability of taxonomic encoding categories in the groups sampled. (Author/GDC)

A preliminary classification is presented for functional human sexual disorders. This system is based on objective behavior and reports of distress. Five categories of sexual disorders are proposed, including the behavioral, psychological and informational components of sexual functioning in the individual and the couple. (Author)

Reports on comparative study of document classifications produced by use of single linkage, complete linkage, group average, and Ward clustering methods. Findings of work that compares use of clusters consisting of pairs of documents with conventional best match searches are also reported. Thirty-four references are provided. (EJS)

Considers classifications produced by application of single linkage, complete linkage, group average, and word clustering methods to Keen and Cranfield document test collections, and studies structure of hierarchies produced, extent to which methods distort input similarity matrices during classification generation, and retrieval effectiveness…

This paper focuses on clustering a World Wide Web site (i.e., the 1998 World Cup Soccer site) into groups of documents that are predictive of future user accesses. Two approaches were developed and tested. The first approach uses semantic information inherent in the documents to facilitate the clustering process. User access history is then used…

A Texas-sized superschool that tries to educate kids for the real world. (Editor)

A chronicle of author's two days a week at a school in a large northern city-- the story of what happened to him and what he saw happening to the children and their teachers in the open classroom. (Author/CB)

Explains an experimental program designed to give the student a total look at himself and his society through literature, politics, and history; a paper presented at annual convention of National Council of Teachers of English (Washington, D. C., November 28, 1969) and published in Kansas English" (February 1970). (Editor/SW)

Mothers of children attending nursery schools completed the Behavior Style Questionnaire (BSQ) from which scores for nine temperament categories were derived. Found membership in groups based on factor scores independent of sex, socioeconomic class, age but not ordinal birth position. (Author)

Conducted a Monte Carlo computer simulation of the ANOVA design to detect job differences. The design proved reasonably powerful in detecting differences. A second study used Monte Carlo methods to analyze the viability of techniques for determining job differences. Offers guidelines for selecting statistical techniques. (Author/RC)