Attempts to identify common assumptions which underlie introductory courses in organic chemistry, and relates these to some learning difficulties experienced by students. (Author/JR)

A definition and brief history of the learner analysis function as it relates to instructional development. (HB)

A concrete and a symbolic approach to learning multiplication in the second grade are studied. The results, indicating that children using the symbolic model performed at a higher level than those using a concrete model, are discussed. (DT)

The article reviews theory based research on the motivational characteristics of mildly retarded adolescents and young adults and highlights the need for more research on the motivational characteristics in learning among this group of individuals. (DLS)

It is frequently claimed that learning "how to learn" is more important than what is learned. On the other hand, many are more concerned with the mastery of content. The tendency to regard knowledge and skills as two different things is examined and it is argued that they are related phenomena, not separate entities. (Author/JMD)

Research on the application of descriptions of student learning to normal methods of studying is discussed, and a study is reported that examines student learning in actual working situations. It is concluded that learning styles and strategies apply to students in particular situations rather than to individual students per se. (Author/JMD)

Defining students' different styles of learning and their study patterns enables a teacher to guide them into using their own methods effectively; this is particularly important in teaching inner-city students. (JD)

In comparing the mechanism of a native language sound change and the acquisition of a second language phonology, it is concluded that individuals approach the learning and changing of phonology in a psycholinguistically unified way; the foreign language learner is fundamentally like himself as a native language changer. (Author/POP)

The specificity of training principle from exercise physiology was tested in a motor skills learning context. (Author/JA)

Learning activities intended to offer children practice in careful mathematical logical thinking are described. (DT)

Written by a kindergarten teacher in a school for blind children, the booklet is designed to give parents insights and guidelines to help prepare their visually handicapped child for school. Part I reviews characteristics of learning. Part II focuses on how children learn. A third section, which makes up most of the document, offers guidelines in…

THE PURPOSE OF THIS PROJECT WAS TO FIND (1) A LEARNING SITUATION IN WHICH THERE IS NO INTIMATION OF A FUTURE TRANSFER TEST AND YET (2) DEMONSTRATE TRANSFER FROM THE LEARNING BY A STABLE DIFFERENCE IN THE PERFORMANCE OF CONTROLS IN THE SECOND TEST. THE TECHNIQUE OF CRYPTOGRAPHY PERMITTED TESTING OF THE HYPOTHESIS. THE SUBJECTS WERE COLLEGE…

The central aim of this paper and its projected successors is to prove in detail that stimulus-response theory, or at least a mathematically precise version, can give an account of the learning of many phrase-structure grammars. Section 2 is concerned with standard notions of finite and probabilistic automata. An automaton is defined as a device…