Contents

• DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
• BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
• COLLECTION DESCRIPTION
• SERIES LIST
• INFORMATION FOR USERS
• SUBJECTS
• CONTAINER LIST

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James Dunn papers, 1966-1990.
Collection Number: 27-2-3170

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Cornell University Library

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DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY

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INFORMATION FOR USERS

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CONTAINER LIST

Container		Description	Date
		Series I. American Institutes for Research (AIR), 1968-1977
		Project Plan
Box 1	Folder 1	AIR - Occupations
Box 1	Folder 2	AIR- Guidance program in the plan system of individualized education
Box 1	Folder 3	AIR- Contacts	1982
		AIR- Evaluation project
Box 1	Folder 4	Project Plan
Box 1	Folder 5	Plan Guidance Flow Chart
		AIR- VECS and CCEM
Box 1	Folder 6	AIR VECS II	1977
Box 1	Folder 7	CCEM- Monograph notebook
Box 1	Folder 8	CCEM- Publisher contacts
		AIR- DS Project Descriptions
Box 1	Folder 9	CE curriculum materials guide
Box 1	Folder 10	Monograph III
Box 1	Folder 11	CCEM Monograph
Box 1	Folder 12	Project Descriptions
		AIR- Salary Chronology
Box 1	Folder 13	Old AIR salary schedules
Box 1	Folder 14, 16	Salary chronology
Box 1	Folder 15	Recent AIR correspondence
		AIR- Benefits
Box 1	Folder 16	Personnel Reviews- JAD
		AIR- Other Files
Box 1	Folder 17	AIR- Employees' Handbook
Box 1	Folder 18	Annual Report	1980
Box 1	Folder 19	AIR Corporate
Box 1	Folder 20	AIR Phone Directory	1977
		AIR- Greenbriar 71
Box 1	Folder 21	AIR Directors' Meeting- Greenbriar	Jan. 1971
		AIR- La Costa 74
Box 1	Folder 22	Report to the Board of Directors- American Institutes for Research	Aug. 17-19, 1974
Box 1	Folder 23	La Costa	1975
Box 1	Folder 24	Report to the Board of Directors, American Institutes for Research	Feb. 14-16, 1975
Box 1	Folder 25	Report to the Board of Directors, American Institutes for Research in the Behavioral Sciences	Feb. 5-8, 1976
Box 1	Folder 26	Project Record - American Institutes of Research Developmental Systems Group
Box 2	Folder 1-2	Report to the Board of Directors, American Institutes for Research in the Behavioral Sciences	Aug. 20-23, 1976
Box 2	Folder 3	JAD/WVS Memos: Personnel Policies
Box 2	Folder 4	Chronological File	Nov. 1976
Box 2	Folder 5	WVC Chronological file
Box 2	Folder 6	Summary of Problems with WVC
Box 2	Folder 7	Personal Problems with WVC
Box 2	Folder 8	"For discussion with Bill Clemans"
Box 2	Folder 9	Contracts
Box 2	Folder 10	Copyright Agreement
Box 2	Folder 11	Suggested Agreement Formats
Box 2	Folder 12	Preliminary Drafts- publishing agreement
Box 2	Folder 13	Draft Revisions- Plan Guidance Modules
Box 2	Folder 14	Plan Guidance Modules
		DS Brochures and Promo Materials
Box 2	Folder 15	DS Brochures
Box 2	Folder 16	DS Promo Materials
Box 2	Folder 18	DS Promo Materials
		AIR Promotion Materials
Box 2	Folder 17	AIR Promotion Materials
Box 2	Folder 19	Program Promotion Plan
Box 2	Folder 20	Sponsor Contact Form
Box 2	Folder 21	DS Administrative Guide
Box 2	Folder 22	Cost of Living- AIR growth
		Series II. OST, 1966-1979
		Manuals
Box 3	Folder 1	The OST: Theory, Instrument and Norms, by James Dunn	1969
Box 3	Folder 2	On Science and Theory	1985
Box 3	Folder 3	Psychology and Assumptions Regarding the Nature of Man	1985
Box 3	Folder 4	Matrix Theory of Cognitive Structure	1985-1986
Box 3	Folder 5	III. Early Cognitive Theory: The Associationists	Mar. 17, 1986
Box 3	Folder 6	IV. Guilford and the Structuralists	Mar. 17, 1986
Box 3	Folder 7	V. Kelly and the Constructionists	June 1985
Box 3	Folder 8	OST Instrumentation
		Manuscripts
Box 3	Folder 9	Sample Materials to Practice OST Scoring
Box 3	Folder 10	VII. "Cognitive Style & Its Impact on Cognitive Performance"	1985
Box 3	Folder 11	"Concept Formation, Cognitive Structures & Technology Transfer"	1985
Box 3	Folder 12	OST Literature
Box 3	Folder 37	OST Manuscript	1967
Box 4	Folder 1	"Characteristic Patterns of High and Low Performance Rated Counselor-Candidates," thesis by Robert Innis Havens	1966
Box 4	Folder 2	Exemplary Student Papers
Box 4	Folder 3	"The Object-Sorting Task Project Type: Structured Divergent Versus Normal Divergent" by Karoline A. Fuata'l	Spring 1988
Box 4	Folder 4	"A Comparative Study of Chinese and American Performance . . ." - by J.A. Dunn, Zhang Xiao-yan, & R.E. Ripple	Nov. 1988
Box 4	Folder 5	"A Comparative Study of Chinese and American Thinking Styles in Divergent and Convergent Thinking Tasks"- a thesis by Zhang Xiao-Yan	1987
Box 4	Folder 6	"On Concept Formation, Recognition and Utilization: A Method for the Study of Cognitive Operations" by James Dunn
Box 4	Folder 7	Three theses by Ronald Curcio, Philip Lane Safford & Barbara Lorraine Fisher Landau
Box 3	Folder 41	"Concept Formation, Recognition & Utilization"	1986
Box 3	Folder 42	Papers
Box 3	Folder 43	Lazarus Khabanyane, Education 711	July 1986
Box 3	Folder 44	Laura Bloomberg, Education 711	May 5, 1986
Box 3	Folder 45	Hansen, Zona Scheiner	1970
		Concept Formation
Box 3	Folder 13	Livonia Study
Box 3	Folder 14	Progress Reports
Box 3	Folder 15	OST Graphs
Box 3	Folder 16	Miscellaneous Charts and Graphs
Box 3	Folder 17	Block Specifications
Box 3	Folder 18	Chapter IV Instrumentation
Box 3	Folder 19	OST Descriptors
Box 3	Folder 20	OST Intro
Box 3	Folder 21	Miscellaneous Materials
Box 3	Folder 22	"Patterns of Intellectual Development"
Box 3	Folder 23	"Request for Macintosh Programming Assistance"
Box 3	Folder 24	Concept Formation, Cognitive Structures and Technology Transfer"
		OST Photographs
Box 3	Folder 25	Null Left
Box 3	Folder 26	Null Right
Box 3	Folder 27	Angular
Box 3	Folder 28	Short
Box 3	Folder 29	Tall
Box 3	Folder 30	OST Photos to do
Box 3	Folder 31	Test Strips
Box 3	Folder 32	Miscellaneous photographs for testing purposes
Box 3	Folder 33	Miscellaneous photograph materials
Box 3	Folder 34	Negatives
Box 3	Folder 35	OST photo book
Box 3	Folder 36	OST- master photo set
		Other OST
Box 3	Folder 38	OST Results
Box 3	Folder 40	OST Monograph Part II- Results (original)
		Data Coding and Analysis
Box 3	Folder 9	Instrumentation
Box 3	Folder 10	"School Management"
Box 4	Folder 13	Miscellaneous Charts and Graphs
		Basic Skills Problem
Box 4	Folder 11, 14	Introduction to the Basic Skills Problem (clear overheads)
Box 4	Folder 12	Sample Letters, State and Local Norms: Basic Skills in Vocational Education
Box 4	Folder 15	Basic Skills through Vocational Education- overview and development
Box 4	Folder 16	Basic Skills Project
Box 4	Folder 17	Basic Skills Materials Development (overheads)
Box 4	Folder 18	Basic Skills Materials Revision and Final Product Production
Box 4	Folder 19	Miscellaneous Basic Skills Materials
Box 4	Folder 20	New York State Norms	1981
Box 4	Folder 21	New York State Norms	1983
Box 4	Folder 22	Utah Norms	1983
Box 4	Folder 23	Maryland Norms	1983
Box 4	Folder 24	Program Difference	1981
		CIOE
Box 4	Folder 25	Reporting Student Progress	1979
Box 4	Folder 26	Managing Student Progress	1980-1981
Box 4	Folder 27	Student Program Planning Information
Box 4	Folder 28	Prescriptive Teaching
Box 4	Folder 29	Washington D.C. Basic Competency	1981
Box 4	Folder 30	AVEA attitudes survey	1982
Box 4	Folder 31	AVEA-CIOE
Box 4	Folder 32	Test Results
		Series III. YETP: Basic Skills, 1980-1990
Box 3	Folder 8	YETP Curriculum Guide
Box 4	Folder 33	Basic Skills- annual report	1980-1981
Box 4	Folder 34	Teaching Basic Skills through Vocational Education (introductory guide)	Sept. 1980
Box 5	Folder 2	Business Proposals	1979
Box 5	Folder 3	Basic Skills Technical Assistance Requests
Box 4	Folder 35	Teaching Oral Communication Skills in Vocational Education	Sept. 1980
Box 4	Folder 36	Resource Guide, Teaching Basic Skills through Vocational Education	Sept. 1980
		Talks and Workshops
Box 5	Folder 4	Cincinnati Consultation	1981
Box 5	Folder 5	New Jersey Talk	1982
Box 5	Folder 6	Maryland Workshop	1981
Box 5	Folder 7	Ohio State Conference	Feb. 1981
Box 5	Folder 8	Ohio State-CVTE visit
Box 5	Folder 9	Career Education National Forum held in Columbus, Ohio	Mar. 19-21, 1975
Box 5	Folder 10	University of Nevada in Las Vegas Conference	May 1982
Box 5	Folder 11	Utah State Conference	1982
Box 5	Folder 12	Speech notes from Sandy, Utah	1982
Box 5	Folder 13	Basic Skills Workshop in Sacramento, California	Mar. 1982
Box 5	Folder 14	Basic Skills Symposium	1981
Box 5	Folder 15	Basic Skills Workshop held in Cheverly, Maryland	Apr. 1982
Box 5	Folder 16	Basic Skills Workshop held in Seattle, Washington	Mar. 22, 1982
Box 5	Folder 17	Basic Skills Workshop held in Chicago, Illinois	Jan. 1982
Box 5	Folder 18	Basic Skills Workshop held in Atlanta, Georgia	Dec. 1981
Box 5	Folder 19	"A Vocational Education Mathematics Curriculum"- Cincinnati Public Schools	Dec. 12, 1981
Box 5	Folder 20	Basic Skills Workshop held in Chicopee, Massachusetts	Nov. 23-24, 1981
Box 5	Folder 21	Conference in theWestern Curriculum Coordination Center in Koror, Palau	Sept. 27- Oct. 1, 1981
Box 5	Folder 22	Arithmetic Norms for Vermont and New York States	1983 &amp, 1986
Box 5	Folder 23	Example Survey of Basic Skills
Box 5	Folder 24	Essex Junction Pre/Post Arithmetic
Box 5	Folder 25	Cornell Test of Basic Skills: Basic Skills Overhead Presentation
		New York State Norms
Box 5	Folder 26	Keys- Math
Box 5	Folder 27	Keys-Reading
Box 5	Folder 28	Test Key
Box 5	Folder 29	Keys- Arithmetic
Box 5	Folder 30	Guide to Vocational Education Materials and Practices
Box 5	Folder 31	New York State Norms
		Vermont Norms
Box 5	Folder 32	Vermont Test Scores
Box 5	Folder 33	Outcomes of Occupational Education- Instrumentation Report (draft)	1984
Box 5	Folder 34	Outcomes of Occupational Education- Instrumentation Report	1984
Box 5	Folder 35	"Systematic Error Analysis as an Empirical Basis for Analytic Teaching"	Dec. 13, 1991
Box 5	Folder 36	Basic Skills Report
		Basic Skills Guides
Box 5	Folder 37	Teacher Guide- Teaching Basic Skills through Vocational Education
Box 5	Folder 38	"Basic Skill Development Through Vocational Education" - Business Proposal	June 21, 1979
Box 5	Folder 39	"Literature Search,"Teaching Basic Skills through Vocational Education	Apr. 1989
Box 5	Folder 40	"Field Test Plan and Site Selection,"Teaching Basic Skills through Vocational Education	Apr. 1980
Box 5	Folder 41	Teaching Oral Communications Skills in Vocational Education	Oct. 1980
Box 5	Folder 42	Teaching Basic Skills through Vocational Education	Oct. 1980
Box 5	Folder 43	Teaching Reading Skills in Vocational Education	Oct. 1980
Box 5	Folder 44	Teaching Writing Skills in Vocational Education	Oct. 1980
Box 5	Folder 45	Teaching Mathematical Skills in Vocational Equation	Oct. 1980
Box 5	Folder 46	Teaching Basic Skills through Home Economics	Sept. 1981
Box 5	Folder 47	"Sample Lesson Ideas for Basic Skill Instruction in Selected Vocational Programs," Teaching Basic Skills through Vocational Education	Apr. 1982
Box 5	Folder 48	"Selected Instructional Materials for Teaching Basic Skills in Vocational Education," Teaching Basic Skills through Vocational Education	Apr. 1982
Box 5	Folder 49	"Readability Analyses of Selected Vocational Texts," Teaching Basic Skills through Vocational Education	Apr. 1982
Box 5	Folder 50	Basic Skills Miscellaneous Materials
Box 6	Folder 1	Proposal for an external degree program leading to the Degree of Master of Arts with a major in Vocational Education	May 1975
Box 6	Folder 2	Evaluation Report, External Degree Programs	1976-77
Box 6	Folder 3	CCEM Interim Reports	Dec. 1975
Box 6	Folder 4	Field Test and Revision of 88 Career Education Curriculum Units	May 9, 1974
Box 6	Folder 5-6	Design and Packaging of Impact Evaluation Models for Peace Corps Programs- Part I	Sept. 20, 1976
Box 6	Folder 7	Basic Skills Development through Vocational Education- annual report	1980-81
Box 6	Folder 8	State Dissemination Plan for Vocational Education Instructional Materials- Business Proposal	July 16, 1981
Box 6	Folder 9	State Dissemination Plan for Vocational Education Instructional Materials- Technical Proposal	July 16, 1981
Box 6	Folder 10-11	TV-CAP Career Awareness Programs for Children- Part I	Jan. 30, 1976
Box 6	Folder 12	Miscellaneous Basic Skills materials
Box 6	Folder 13	Request for Proposal- Field Testing Vocational Education Curriculum Specialist Materials	Aug. 21, 1978
Box 6	Folder 14	Request for Proposal- Basic Skill Development Through Vocational Education	June 21, 1979
Box 6	Folder 15	"Freestyle Follow-up" found in American Education	Dec. 1980
Box 6	Folder 16	Basic Skill Development through Vocational Education - Technical Proposal	June 21, 1979
Box 6	Folder 17	Basic Skill Development through Vocational Education - Technical Proposal with best and final addendum	Sept. 18, 1979
Box 6	Folder 18	Identification of Evaluated, Exemplary Activities in Career Education (K-12)	May 12, 1977
Box 6	Folder 19	Building Your Tomorrows- Module P-7-1-G
Box 6	Folder 20	Building Your Tomorrows- Module E-6-1-G
Box 6	Folder 21	Building Your Tomorrows- Module E-7-1-G
Box 6	Folder 22	Building Your Tomorrows- Module E-7-2-G
Box 6	Folder 23	Building Your Tomorrows- Module E-7-3-G
Box 6	Folder 24	Building Your Tomorrows- Module E-8-1-G
Box 6	Folder 25	Building Your Tomorrows- Module M-3-1-G
Box 6	Folder 26	Building Your Tomorrows- Module M-6-1-G
Box 6	Folder 27	Building Your Tomorrows- Module M-6-3-G
Box 6	Folder 28	Building Your Tomorrows- Module M-7-1-G
Box 6	Folder 29	Building Your Tomorrows- Module M-7-2-G
Box 6	Folder 30	Building Your Tomorrows- Module M-7-3-G
Box 6	Folder 31	Building Your Tomorrows- Module M-8-1-G
Box 6	Folder 32	Building Your Tomorrows- Module S-6-2-G
Box 6	Folder 33	Building Your Tomorrows- Module S-7-1-G
Box 6	Folder 34	Building Your Tomorrows- Module S-7-2-G
Box 6	Folder 35	Building Your Tomorrows- Module S-7-4-G
Box 6	Folder 36	Building Your Tomorrows- Module S-8-1-G
Box 6	Folder 37	Building Your Tomorrows- Module S-8-2-G
Box 6	Folder 38	Building Your Tomorrows- Module S-2-1-G
Box 6	Folder 39	Building Your Tomorrows- Module M-5-1-G
Box 6	Folder 40	Building Your Tomorrows- Module M-5-2-G
Box 6	Folder 41	Building Your Tomorrows- Module M-5-4-G
Box 6	Folder 42	Building Your Tomorrows- Module M-5-5-G
Box 6	Folder 43	Building Your Tomorrows- Module M-5-7-G
Box 6	Folder 44	Building Your Tomorrows- Module M-5-8-G
Box 6	Folder 45	Building Your Tomorrows- Module M-5-9-G
Box 6	Folder 46	Building Your Tomorrows- Module P-5-9-G
Box 6	Folder 47	Building Your Tomorrows- Module P-5-10-G
Box 6	Folder 48	Building Your Tomorrows- Module P-5-10-G
Box 6	Folder 49	Building Your Tomorrows- Module P-5-11-G
Box 6	Folder 50	Module List and Descriptions
Box 7	Folder 1	AIR Proposal Writing
Box 7	Folder 2	CCEM Monthly & Quarterly Progress Reports
Box 7	Folder 3	AIR- "Publisher Procurement for Educational Products" by James Dunn	June 1977
Box 7	Folder 4	AIR-"Toward More Natural Field Testing of Classroom Materials" by Dewey Lipe & Jacqueline E. Haveman	June 1977
Box 7	Folder 5	AIR-"Career Education Curriculum Materials Guide" by Carol B. Kaplan	June 1977
Box 7	Folder 6-8	Field Test Report on 130 Career Education Modules- Parts II-IV	Dec. 1976
Box 7	Folder 9	Basic Skills Worksheet
Box 7	Folder 10	Career Education Curriculum Development: Grades K-9	Oct. 1974
		Course 311
Box 7	Folder 12	Education 311
Box 7	Folder 13	Education 311 - lecture notes
Box 7	Folder 14	Education 311 - master review
Box 7	Folder 15	Scholar's Soliloquy
Box 7	Folder 28	Education 311 - overhead slides	Jan. 1990
		Education Courses
Box 7	Folder 16	Education 610 - Course Syllabus	Fall 1987
Box 7	Folder 17	Education 711 - Course Description	Spring 1988
Box 7	Folder 18	Education 612 - Course Announcement & Topic Outline	Spring 1985
Box 7	Folder 19	Education 612 - Reading List	Spring 1985
Box 7	Folder 11	Education 310 - course description	Fall 1989
Box 7	Folder 20	Current Criticism
Box 7	Folder 21	Education 212 - Readings
Box 7	Folder 22	"On Schools and Schooling: Lessons From a Review of the History of American Education" written by James A. Dunn
Box 7	Folder 23	Psychopathology
Box 7	Folder 24	POW
Box 7	Folder 25	Conflict and Stress
Box 7	Folder 26	Developmental Psychology- Readings	1990
Box 7	Folder 27	Educational Psychology	Summer 1969
		Readings for Educational Psychology-Education 311
Box 7	Folder 29	"The Social Psychology of Instruction"
Box 7	Folder 30	"Developmental Psychology"	Jan. 1990
Box 7	Folder 31	"Intelligence and Creativity"	Jan. 1990
Box 7	Folder 32	"Testing and Assessment"	July 1989
Box 7	Folder 33	"Learning"	July 1989
Box 7	Folder 34	"Cognitive Psychology"	July 1, 1989
Box 7	Folder 35	"Instructional Psychology"	Jan. 1990
Box 7	Folder 36	"Research and Research Methods"	July 1, 1989
Box 7	Folder 37	"Thinking and Cognition"	Jan. 1990
Box 7	Folder 38	"Perception"	Jan. 1990
		Reels
Reel 1		The Evolution of Clinical Psychology, Molly Harrower
Reel 1		Projective use of the Wechsler, Bellevue
Reel 2		Measurement of Abilities, Ann Anastasi
Reel 3		The Development of Clinical Psychology, Lawrence E. Abt
Reel 3		Clinical and Developmental Aspects of Child Psychology, Charlotte Buhler
Reel 4		Perception and Reading, J. Bergan