The fact that small organizations have been slow to adopt elearning is not because of a lack of need--in fact elearning offers tremendous benefits for small organizations in the form of time savings, captured expertise, improved workflow and improved staff development--but rather because small organizations tend not to have the right components…

The purpose of this study was to determine the nature and efficiency of the strategies used by prelingually deafened native signers for the temporary retention of written words with reference to a primary language-coding hypothesis (M. A. Shand, 1982). For the gathering of the data, participants were shown lists of serially presented written…

The single-link cluster method is used to construct a hierarchic classification for the 1400 documents in the Cranfield test collection. A variety of retrieval strategies applied to this hierarchy are evaluated in terms of effectiveness and efficiency. (Author)

Perhaps the most crucial education question of the late 1980s involves the assessment and evaluation of teaching quality. To help identify quality of teaching issues, this paper poses three questions: (1) Why have teachers found research-based teaching quality indicators so hollow and unacceptable? (2) What role, if any, can the accumulated…

This report by Donald Lamberton reviews the Australian telecommunications system, including its funding and efficiency. Growth requirements and the impact of technological change are discussed, and the relevance of the American experience to Australian conditions is assessed. The paper concludes with some remarks on regional issues such as the…

Tasks based on the function concept (y = f(x)) were used in a study charting the development of anticipation in children from 5 through 7 years of age. In each task a desired outcome was a function of a combination of specific, rule-constrained, antecedent conditions. Subjects' behavior was scored according to criteria differentiating six levels…

A series of studies was conducted to determine whether children's reasoning is capacity-limited and whether any such capacity, if it exists, is based on the working memory system. An N-term series (transitive inference) was used as the primary task in an interference paradigm. A concurrent short-term memory load was employed as the secondary task.…

Reports research on local school taxation determinants, that focuses on taxes and local funding. Includes school tax exportability (cost spillout) measures, divides intergovernmental school aid into lump-sum and matching categories, and uses data for individual school districts rather than for aggregates of such units. Findings indicate that tax…

A team relationship between an executive and a secretary is proposed for effective and efficient organizational management. The roles of each in seven items of shared responsibility are outlined. (Author/MLF)

Historically, school finance has been concerned with three things: adequate provision, equity, and efficiency. While the first of these has been substantially achieved with free public education and a stabilizing student population, recent court cases remind us that the term "adequate educational program" has never been conclusively…

The new energy consciousness has led to a thorough reevaluation of how artificial lighting can be used wisely, while other researchers have explored the potential of daylighting as an alternative interior light source. (Author/MLF)

Use of nonbook media in schools is valuable because some content is best communicated, and some learning tasks are best accomplished through one or a combination of such media. Some learning environments and students may require use of a particular medium for more effective learning. Nonprint media has high motivational power. (Author/MBR)

A working wife and mother who is also a home economics teacher and organization president offers suggestions for managing home and family duties by deciding what activities are more important to her. (MF)

Analysis of imprint dates, average turn around time, delivery rates, service charges, average cost per title, claiming, and invoice formats for five book dealers indicates that certain ones to give greater discounts and have shorter turn around times, but these advantages must be weighed against problems encountered. (Author/MBR)