The effect of audience and task difficulty on the learning and performance of forty, high-anxious, sixth-grade students was examined, with data favoring the hypothesis that a spectator reduces drive and reassures the learner. (MJB)

In this study, hypothesis probe techniques were used to provide trial-to-trial monitoring of second and third grade children's use of feedback. (SB)

Tests children for the effects of prior knowledge on the amount of learning that occurs after a training period focusing on either number skills or logical operations. No relationship existed between the amount children learned and their pretraining knowledge or the amount learned and their developmental level. (Author/BB)

The allocation and use of time are considered important in the context of learning because time can be manipulated, measured, and applied to the design of instructional programs. After a clarification of terminology, an overview of current research on time is offered and policy recommendations discussed. (MJL)

This issues paper, the second in a series of eight, is intended to distill formative evaluation questions on topics that are central to the development of the higher and further education information environment in the United Kingdom. Issues Paper 1 introduced a framework for thinking about "good" learning. This paper complements Issues…

The central argument of this book is that the potential of problem-based learning is yet to be realized in higher education. Problem-based learning is an important approach to learning, based in the experiential learning tradition, that needs to be more centrally located in higher education curricula. Part 1 of this book explores problem-based…

The purpose of this paper is to suggest some of the implications for teachers' roles that might result from the growth of computer technology in education. In the past, technological innovations in education have affected the roles of teachers as much as those of students. An important historical example is the invention of mechanical printing,…

Human Resource Development conceptualization includes three categories according to different kinds of learning experiences: training (job-related learning experiences), education (individual-related learning experiences, and development (organizational-related learning experiences). Five implications which result from applying this HRD concept…

Discussed the materials necessary for students in a learning center stressing an individualized, team teaching project. (Author/RK)

Equating cheating with clever solutions, copying with learning from observing a neighbor's work, and the notion that noise in a room is not conducive to learning are discussed. The author describes workshop situations in which teachers became aware of the burden such misplaced taboos places on their students' learning. (JP)

These studies all indicate that self-directed small group study does not result in any decrement in subject matter mastery in the college learning experience. Observations of self-directed groups in action and some implications for policy decisions in higher education are given. (Editor/PG)

A look at an experiment using prose in which questions are categorized as 1) active; or 2) passive. (HB)

Analysis of difference in learning when students choose their own partners or randomly assigned pairs in a high school chemistry program. (HB)