This paper reviews instructional theory and research relating to three design criteria: (1) the order of presentation of instruction (sequencing); (2) the kinds of content relationships that should be taught; and (3) the way content relationships should be taught (synthesis). Also research on the relations between sequencing and synthesis is…

Discusses research in North Carolina during the 1970s that lead to graduated driver licensing, some of the educational principles on which it is based, obstacles to its acceptance, and some of the early efforts to implement it in the United States and elsewhere. (Contains 1 figure and 17 references.) (AUTHOR/WFA)

This review of the literature on aptitude by treatment interaction concentrates on studies which investigated two or more instructional treatments in a quantitative subject area--primarily mathematics--with different populations of students on whom measures of individual differences in aptitude were available. Designed to formulate some tentative…