A procedure designed to help instructional decision-makers evaluate individual sources of diagnostic information in terms of their functional utility may add a desirable measure of precision to their instructional prescriptions for learners. (Author)

Attention to visual and nonvisual imagery, elicited by an imagery questionnaire, was studied using both within and between subjects analyses of cardiac and respiratory parameters. (Editor)

One of four International Reading Association award-winning dissertations from 1975. (RB)

The study has applied speech recognition and text-mining technologies to a set of recorded outbound marketing calls and analyzed the results. Since speaker-independent speech recognition technology results in a significantly lower recognition rate than that found when the recognizer is trained for a particular speaker, a number of post-processing…

This book examines the varying experiences of information literacy among higher educators and proposes a relational model of information literacy as an alternative to the behavioral model that dominates the education and research. The metaphor of an "information literacy wheel" is used to examine problems associated with the behavioral model and…

Author stresses the importance of art, music, and literature experiences in the perceptual development of a child. (GB)

This paper describes one child care agency's use of a management information system to provide data swiftly, accurately, and in a usable form. (ST)

Problems encountered in converting a card-oriented biological data information system to new computer equipment are discussed. Data formats, input-output procedures, search strategies, etc., are described. (5 references) (Author/SJ)

The formation of a single, correlated set of data elements, accomplished by merging sixteen commercial and national bibliographic data bases, and subsequent improvements in current awareness and information retrieval activities are described. The correlation is compatible with most existing and proposed data-element standards. (27 references)…

Article describes how badge input and data collection terminals raise productivity and support new library services at the University of Maryland. (HB)

With MSRTS, a computerized record transfer system, continuity is at last being brought to the schooling of our most mobile students. (Editor)

The major topics included in this paper are: thesaurus structure, later developments, functions of thesauri, keyword list generation, compatibility, and maintenance and updating. (NH)

Stylistic analysis or attribution study is a very different kind of indexing. Instead of indexing subjects, it measures such things as the frequencies of common words such as and" and the". These studies reveal a great deal about consistency, methodology, and the approaches used for documents in the humanities. (41 references) (Author/NH)

The time has arrived for an assessment of the present status of sound archives and of their present and potential usefulness to scholarship and society; for an attempt to systematize description and location of materials; and to consider approaches to their function in education. (37 references) (Author)