Self-instructional booklets varying advance organizers, post organizers, and knowledge of behavioral objectives according to experimental treatment were used with 348 eighth graders and 259 preservice elementary education students. A significant interaction between the advance and the post organizers was found on one learning test. Students scored…

According to this study, students respond very favorably to the audiotutorial system of instruction and generally prefer it to the lecture method. In addition to describing an audiotutorial laboratory and students' evaluations of specific parts of it, the author projects plans to develop a completely independent study system. (Editor)

Article describes the school experience as being like a competition that students find unappealing so they lose interest. (ML)

Discussed are generalizations and problem solving, unsound uses of generalizations, generalization as data, and student discovery of generalizations. (CT)

The article describes a program which fosters the notion that normal children will learn if properly stimulated and taught; the pressure is therefore placed on the teacher to teach. In return the teacher is rewarded with more money and higher status. The author raises serious questions about the plan. (Author/BY)

The investigation was intended to assess the relationships of three variables at three distinctly different grade levels. The objective was to understand better the roles that each construct plays in relation to mathematics attitudes. Results did not establish causality, but it is felt implications for causality are clear. (MP)

Provides evidence indicating a strong connection between a high level of ambient household noise and intellectual deficits at stages of infant development. Observers rated noise level from all household sources (stereos, appliances, etc.). Delays were found in sensorimotor development with high levels of noise. (Author/JN)

A description is given of some of the ways personal computers could be used in the classroom and the benefits of these uses. (MK)

Describes an investigation undertaken by the Inner London Education Authority (ILEA) in four areas designated as having special difficulties. The problems faced by the schools are outlined, together with the various innovations and methods employed by the schools to deal with them. (Author)

Eighty tenth-graders studied a two-day unit on quadratic inequalities presented in one of four programmed-booklet forms: analytic treatment with advance organizer, analytic treatment plus introductory overview, graphical treatment with advance organizer and graphical treatment with introductory overview. No differences were found between groups on…

Three experiments involving 350 undergraduates addressed whether implicit learning is sensitive to a subject's entire range of learning or whether explicit knowledge is an important factor in the more complex learning of an artificial grammar. Results suggest that implicit learning occurs only at the simplest level of complexity. (SLD)

This article considers the synergistic force, specifically imagination, which can serve as the catalyst for motivation and learning. The importance of classroom climate in fostering imagination and developing growth, discovery, and vision is emphasized. Ways to make imagination an important element of classroom climate are listed. (JDD)