The concept "sex-role identification" is seen as biased and value-laden as it is utilized in present research. This assumes that learning the proper sex role in American society is directly related to adequate personality adjustment of the adolescent. Discusses problems associated with this conceptual approach and suggests a more appropriate…

According to the author, business educators should help students make career choices by developing "life style" and "work style" concepts which would blend personal values and careers into a congruent state. (MF)

Plate tectonics concepts require a definition of fault, a new term to compliment epeirogeny, and a clarification of transform fault characteristics. This article makes proposals for these changes. (Author/MA)

The purpose of this article is to offer some suggestions which might place community satisfaction within a useful theoretical framework. Specifically, it is argued that community satisfaction can be profitably viewed as one dimension of the definition of the situation, where satisfaction refers to a definitional and community a situational…

"Study" is not merely confined to the careful and thoughtful examination of arguments and beliefs already set out, but can be applied to original and creative inquiry which expands the frontiers of knowledge. (Author/NQ)

It will be the job of instructional designers to find the knowledge structure underlying various subject matter areas and to redesign materials so that they become more accessible to beginners in a new discipline. The problem is to find procedures for bringing such structures into being as efficiently as possible. (VT)

Sculpture concepts are acquired by a young child from many sources in his or her environment. Discusses the synthesizing of these concepts for children and outlines a chart of sculpture concepts for the art teacher. (Author/RK)

Young children's comprehension and overdiscrimination of natural language concepts were examined by asking 2- and 4-year-old children to select pictorial instances of five concrete semantic concepts. Results suggest that young children initially tend to use concept labels in a very restricted manner. (JMB)

The WISC, Piagetian logico-mathematical and representational space tasks, the Frostig DTVP and a motor ability test were administered to elementary children at 3 age and arithmetic achievement levels to determine whether specific patterns of cognitive and/or spatial development were related to arithmetic achievement and whether patterns varied…

Two experiments with third to sixth grade children were undertaken to test three predictions derived from the assumption that children may fail to solve union problems because addition of classes is not implied when classes to be combined overlap. (SB)

The author reviews various sources of competencies used in forming a competency based educational process, dividing these sources into three groups: inductive (from observation), deductive (from general principles), and seductive (from presently existing programs). (MJB)

Findings are interpreted to support the hypothesis that the subjective probability induced by normative feedback mediates performance via an experimentally produced motive-like orientation. (Author/RC)

Explained are some scientific terms that have more than one meaning. After discussing seven concepts of the term, mass, the author gives a plan for blending the various concepts for a given term so students will be able to use the term in all its dimensions without confusion. (AJ)