This is a summary of discussion and materials used in a seminar on Cognitive Style Mapping (CSM) of individual learning strengths as a key to an accountable teacher education program based on personalized instruction. CSM refers to a diagnostic technique used to identify a student's relative learning strengths on selected learning variables. This…

The purpose of this study was: (a) to develop a learning hierarchy for rational number subtraction using intraconcept analysis, and (b) to validate that hierarchy using the Walbesser technique and pattern analysis. Skills required to complete tasks within the hierarchy were operationally defined and ordered from both a mathematical and…

The purpose of this study is to determine categories of learning styles based on research on the chemical and physiological correlates of learning, as well as the development of simple measures that would allow an investigator to place a subject within one or more of these categories. The data from eight experiments with rats suggests that there…

This investigation estimates the magnitude of the relationship between social class and visual information processing rates, and compares the development curves of processing rate for advantaged and disadvantaged children. Subjects were grade school children in a metropolitan area of southwestern Michigan. Estimates of the information processing…

The basic tenet of Programed Instruction (PI), that learning occurs best when knowledge is imparted in small increments, appears to apply to associative rather than deductive process. One may best learn definitions via association, and best learn inference via unified understandings. This hypothesis was tested by structuring two modes of…

To investigate the relationship between performance on a word association test and on a reversal/nonreversal shift discrimination task, institutionalized educable mentally handicapped children were tested. The study did not confirm the hypothesis that children who show evidence of rule-mediated performance on the word association test should also…

A major concern of this report was to compare the effect of three verbal reinforcement combinations (VRCs) on the rate at which children learn a simultaneous two-choice discrimination problem. The experiments were designed to test the following: (1) whether relative effectiveness of the VRCs was dependent upon task complexity or subject age; (2)…

The predominant use of female teachers in the elementary school is one of the variables to which the inferior learning rates of males in elementary school has been attributed. The present study was designed to determine the effect of the sex of the teacher/experimenter on the learning of a reading-like paired associate task by children in two…

To test the hypothesis that learning depends on the influence and interaction of three primary variables--instruction, learner aptitude, and learning environment--an explanatory model was tested during the 1967-68 school year in an experiment conducted with the cooperation of a simple random sample of 56 teachers drawn from the National Science…

The purpose of this research project was to evaluate the effects of prompts and cues in paired-associate learning. Experiment One was to investigate the effects of cues and prompting on the learning of Japanese vocabulary. Experiment Two duplicated the above using digit-nonsense syllable combinations as the paired associates. The next three…

The purposes of this study were to replicate and extend the list learning results in a prose context, and to explore both the learning of incidental material and the effect of a text organization pretest and posttest information about passage structure. One hundred twenty-eight college undergraduates read a 460 word prose story, which mentioned…

An aspect of problem solving ability was identified by the investigator as "mathelation" and was defined to be the ability to translate and to fit idealized real-world problem situations into appropriate mathematical expressions or models. The study involved three phases: (1) the construction and validation of an instrument to measure mathelation;…

Biological principles related to the theme "photosynthesis and Energy Relationships" were specified, ordered according to Gagne's hierarchical learning theory, and their attainment by students in grades 5, 7, and 9 measured by a 100-item test developed for the purpose. Each succeeding grade level achieved significantly higher scores;…

This study examines the effects on long-term retention of variations in intensity and temporal parameters of arousal following a single learning trial in a paired-associate task. Intensity of arousal was manipulated by using two levels of noise, 75 db. and 90 db., and a condition without noise. Noise was delivered to the 56 female university…

This paper examines the sequence and hierarchy of objectives in the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) "Science--A Process Approach" curriculum. The work of Piaget, Bruner forms a framework from which the learning objectives and tasks in the AAAS science curriculum are examined. The points of correspondence…