A RESEARCH TRAINING CONFERENCE ON LEARNING WAS HELD FOR 37 PSYCHOLOGISTS AND EDUCATIONAL RESEARCHERS. THE 6-WEEK CONFERENCE CENTERED ITS ACTIVITIES ON SUCH TOPICS AS LANGUAGE LEARNING, COMPUTER SIMULATION, INSTRUCTIONAL PROCEDURES DESIGN, ATTITUDE AND PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT, AND CURRICULUM EVALUATION. LECTURES AND TALKS WERE OFFERED BY…

THIS REPORT DESCRIBES THE DEVELOPMENT OF A PROGRAM IN PLANE GEOMETRY AND THE USE OF THIS PROGRAM IN EXPLORATORY RESEARCH TO GENERATE HYPOTHESES ABOUT METHODS OF PROGRAM IMPROVEMENT. AN INDUCTIVE APPROACH, BASED ON AN INTENSIVE ANALYSIS OF THE BEHAVIOR OF INDIVIDUAL STUDENTS IN A SELF-STUDY SITUATION, WAS USED TO DEVELOP PRINCIPLES OF PROGRAM…

Mastery learning is an approach to learning whereby students are expected to demonstrate competence of one level, or unit, of learning objectives before advancing to the next level. Most junior college instruction is group-paced, with the instructor determining the rate with which units are presented. One compromise between existing instruction…