The major purpose of the present study was to investigate the effects of non-cueing immediate knowledge upon answering academic questions constructed so as to minimize intrinsic knowledge of ongoing accuracy. (Author)

A general developmental model for interindividual differences, intraindividual differences, and intraindividual changes is described in terms of individuals, variables, and occasions. (ST)

The purposes of the study reported here were: to identify criteria for curriculum development that are crucial, functional, and observable; and to test these criteria in existing school systems. (Author)

Techniques, media, and systems for making organized data available exist, but have not been used extensively enough. Reasons for failure to use these are explored and recommendations made for extraction by authors at time of writing, centralized organization, and publication through existing organization. Datum signatures are described. (50…

Three major classes of review articles identified are: (1) annual review, (2) critical review, and (3) data compilations. The role and control of the review article in medicine is described. (23 references) (Author/NH)

Various aspects of the litter problem can be manipulated in the classroom and in the field to effectively develop concepts of scientific method, information acquisition and recording, techniques of data analyses, means of classification and interpretation, and also to predict new problems and hypotheses. (Author)

With a view to obtaining a set of standard times for information system operations, Aslib Research Department is developing and testing methods for collecting and analysing data on the time taken to perform certain operations. The current state of development of these methods is described. (2 references) (Author/NH)

A design is described for a system to manage the information directly related to the experimental work in a toxicological laboratory. A number of distinct input procedures provide data to a set of co-existing data bases. Periodic, event-triggered, predefined demand, and ad hoc reports are posited. (12 references) (Author/NH)

Discusses some of the problems which have impeded research into the various aspects of nonverbal communication, and outlines some aspects of necessary research into the subject. (AN)

Students collect data for long-term study of effect of urban development on stream characteristics. (AL)

A formula for determining sample size, which originally appeared in 1960, has lacked a table for easy reference. This article supplies a graph of the function and a table of values which permits easy determination of the size of sample needed to be representative of a given population. (DG)

It is imperative that stringent protective devices be included in each information system to involve limitations upon the scope and character of the data that are collected, their dissemination, and their use. (Author)

this essay attempts to integrate certain inferences from people processing research with certain other inferences from what might loosely be termed micro-theory through the use of the rather unusual medium of panel survey research data." The topic is the appropriate way in which to conceive of the relationships between organizations and their…

An installation at the University of California at San Diego is one of three systems used to illustrate the flexibility of computerized control systems. (Author/MLF)