Designed to measure the syntactic maturity of oral speech, the K-Ratio Index was devised for use in an investigation of the relationships between certain measures of syntactic maturity of oral languages and silent reading comprehension scores. Preparation for computing the ratio was accomplished by transcribing oral speech samples, excluding…

Designed to measure children's skill at recovering the deep structure relationships of sentences, the test contains twenty-five groups of three sentences and directs the children to circle the sentence which has a different meaning within each group. Means and standard deviations are listed by sex, and content validity is established for the test…

Designed to measure a person's knowledge of commonly used prefixes and root words, this test is composed of the twelve most frequently occurring prefixes and the twelve most frequently occurring root words derived from Latin. During the untimed test, students are directed to select the best meanings for prefixes and other word parts. Content…

Designed to provide a scale for assessing the quality of short expository essays, this material includes a group of six expository essays about 250-300 words in length arranged in order of quality. Each essay is followed by critical comments and a general discussion of the characteristics of essays at that level of quality. No validity or…

Designed to measure discrimination of prose excerpts, the Literary Discrimination Test (LDT) includes nine pairs of passages for the respondent to choose between, and one set of four passages to be rank-ordered. One of each pair of passages and one passage from the set of four were from published novels; the others were rewritten and inferior…

Designed to measure syntactic fluency or maturity in narrative writing, the Syntactic Maturity Test for Narrative Writing (SMTNW) is in two parts: (1) the test itself, a group of seventy-six kernel sentences making a coherent narrative, and (2) a means of syntactic analysis of the written samples that result when respondents rewrite the narrative,…

Designed to assess the reading comprehension ability of high school students, this measure contains items which were constructed to test the subskills found by R. T. Lennon, on the basis of factor analysis of thirty studies of comprehension tests, to be the four components of comprehension tests that may be measured reliably. These subskills are a…

This document presents a compilation of possible formats for questions which can be used in preparing follow-up questionnaires for community/junior college students. The compilation resulted from the review and selection of pertinent questions from approximately fifty follow-up questionnaires obtained from sources both within and outside of Texas.…

Discusses the development and assesses the value of historical works on radio news broadcasts during the 1930s. Examines two photograph collections from the Broadcast Pioneers Library, stating that they are an important resource in radio and television history that can be used for history teaching and research. Presents several of the photographs…

Recent academic advising literature, what it covers, and how advisors can keep up with current issues are discussed. Reasons for keeping up, how to keep up, and current issues are described, and guides to ERIC Clearinghouse and searching in ERIC are provided. (MLW)

Describes the development and current status of the Explorers Club, and the collections and services of the club library. The collections include the arctic library of Admiral Robert Peary, rare books and records, paintings, and memorabilia. The discussion covers research services offered by the library and preservation of the collections. (CLB)

Describes the provision of corporate information services to a zoological organization of 1,200 employees located in two facilities. The discussion covers the history and development of the library collections, and services provided to users. (Author/CLB)

The 23 articles in this special issue describe resource materials and research tools available for genealogical research. The topics covered include the use of government records, materials contained in Illinois public library collections and archives, the organization of genealogical collections, and library services offered to genealogists. (CLB)

Lists and discusses sources of child welfare materials for the historical researcher: general histories, reference guides, catalogs, bibliographies, directories, abstracts, indexes, and electronic services. Also listed are guides to archives containing--among other items--manuscripts, documents, social agency records, and oral history transcripts.…

The federal Preparing Tomorrow's Teachers to Use Technology (PT3) grant program produced a variety of tools, strategies and resources which different grantee sites designed for educating preservice teachers on the integration of technology in K-12 classrooms. These tools, strategies and resources are referred to as knowledge capture artifacts,…