The purpose was to determine if there existed an interaction of cognitive style with teaching method on achievement and retention of strategies acquired through two differential treatments. Forty-eight elementary education majors received instruction on the topics "Teaching Division of Rational Numbers in the Elementary School" in one of two ways:…

The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate the feasibility of applying research variables for concept acquisition into a generalized instructional model for teaching concepts. This paper does not present the methodology for the decision/selection stages in designing the actual instruction task, but offers references to other sources which give…

Concentrating on television and social learning, this second volume in the series of technical reports to the Surgeon General's Scientific Advisory Committee on Television and Social Behavior consists of an overview and the reports of five investigations. The studies included are: Leifer and Roberts, "Children's Responses to Television Violence";…

The described inservice teacher training program was designed for use by elementary school counselors in their role as a consultant to teachers. The training program proposed to provide opportunities for teachers to examine their classroom behaviors and learn how certain behaviors influence the learning environment of the child. The topics…

Eleven studies made between 1958 and 1960 gathered information about the conditions under which children seek out television and under which TV has an effect on them. This book describes these studies and reports and interprets their results. In the first few chapters, some of the changes TV has made in the child's world are described, and…

This book-length manuscript discusses some of the developments in mathematics, psychology and educational theory which have influenced new mathematics curricula. The projects are discussed in detail: (1) the OPI Mathematics Project begun in Budapest, Hungary; (2) the Sherbrooke Project in Quebec, Canada; and (3) the New York Project in New York…

Discusses the systematic assessment of student learning gains by means of pretest and posttest comparisons. This type of assessment is found to be a time consuming procedure but can be a valuable guide to teaching effectiveness when studied in conjunction with a questionnaire which provides feedback about students' opinions. (DB)

This article points out the flaws inherent in the hypothetico-deductive formulation of inquiry. (CD)

This paper discusses several principles of learning and presents a simple model for economics instructional development at the college level. The author's hypothesis is that economics teachers do not adequately define their teaching goals and do not select the components of the learning system on the bases of sound criteria. (Author/RM)

Determination of the nonintellectual characteristics of migrant children that are involved in development of the child's readiness for academic material was the purpose of this study. (Author)

Describes the objectives, the procedures, and the evaluation involved in a personalized system of instruction (PSI) that has been introduced, as an option and as an alternative, in teaching a general physics course at Purdue University. (GA)

Investigated the degree of relationship among the performance of 28 seventh grade students on the following three formal operations tasks: chemical combinations, bending rods, and balance beam. Results show that task performance ranged widely from early concrete operational to fully operational. (HM)

Research into learning strategies students adopt in tackling academic work is reviewed. A report is presented of a research program underway at the Institute for Post-Compulsory Education at the University of Lancaster which is examining characteristics of students who adopt deep-level or surface processing strategies. (JMD)

Characteristics of the adult learner that differ from those of the child include the adult's greater responsibilities, larger stores of information, more fixed responses, and tendency to learn best what he can use immediately. Other concerns are included. (JMD)

Kindergarten, second, and fourth grade children were asked to recall letter sequences on a task which required the use of a verbal strategy, a positional strategy, or either of the two strategies. (BD)