This study examines the influence of personality and cognitive attributes on innovation, focusing on student ability to adapt to changes in learning strategies. Tests were administered to 186 college students, evaluating their levels of self-esteem, need for social approval, dogmatism, critical thinking, reading achievement, and previous academic…

This review of research, developed in cooperation with the National Association for Research in Science Teaching, was designed to analyze and synthesize the research related to developmental psychology and its relationship to science education. The review is divided into five parts: (1) Introduction; (2) Historical Precedents of the Developmental…

Elements of economic production theory are applied to the relation between time and student learning. The analysis takes into account that individual students matter, that students are often taught in classes, and that jointness in production is the rule rather than the exception. The values teachers place on the different possible educational…

TO INVESTIGATE THE EFFECTIVENESS OF PROGRAMMED INSTRUCTION AS AN ADJUNCT TO MORE TRADITIONAL METHODS OF COLLEGE TEACHING, THE EXPERIMENTORS IN THIS STUDY DEVISED METHODS OF TESTING RELATIVE EFFECTIVENESS OF TEACHING MACHINES, WORKBOOKS, SELF-PACED AND IMPOSED SCHEDULES, TRADITIONAL TEXTBOOKS AND SELECTED READINGS. THEY ALSO EXAMINED THE EFFECT OF…

The purpose of this study was to investigate a proposed model for the acquisition of the concept of displacement volume and to compare two methods of conservation task presentation. A 12-stage hierarchical model for the acquisition of the concept was proposed, based on four primary assumptions: (1) concept attainment can be measured by…

This document contains 15 case studies developed by the group teachers during a teaching experiment. Background information on each second grader, behavior and achievement characteristics, and analyses of the evaluation interviews are presented. (MS)

The author contends that there is a strong relationship between a students' scholastic success and self-image. Following a brief literature review, the Self-Anchoring Attitude Scale (SAAS), an inventory designed to assess attitude, is discussed. Each subject is asked to write down what they would say about students who like to learn, and what they…

The study was designed to determine if chronological age is the main factor in a child's ability to develop a particulate concept of matter. Four demonstrations were organized which consisted of a graded series of particle mixing, gas diffusion, dissolving and smoke investigations. The individualized interviews with children were tape recorded. On…

The efficacy of small group instructional programs in classificatory, seriation, and combined class/series skills was evaluated for a sample of 60 urban, middle-class, 4- to 5-year-old children in a transfer of training design. Significant curriculum-specific transfer effects were found for the seriation instructional condition, whereas little…

Reported is the development of instructional procedures to teach learning disabled and mentally handicapped children reading skills, based on their particular verbal learning and language characteristics. Focused on is the development of prototypes of teaching procedures based on cross connecting the learning, language, and reading domains.…

This research investigates the utility of advance organizers and behavioral objectives in a traditional introductory physics class at the college level. The advance organizer was designed to compare and contrast content to be learned with content previously studied or with assumed common knowledge. Behavioral objectives listed the expected…

This paper reports the results of research conducted by the Academic Games program since its beginning in 1967. The research is classified and examined in three major categories: The Influence of Game-Playing on the Socialization of Children; Games as Controlled Research Environments, and Effectiveness of Games in Education. In addition, the paper…

This volume contains abstracts of 33 research papers presented at the 53rd Annual Meeting of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics. Most papers concerned instructional strategies; fourteen were concerned with sequencing of instruction and/or hierarchical analysis of learning. Four papers dealt with strategies for reviewing and…

Reported are the results of a study to ascertain if verbal, visual-spatial, and numerical abilities were related to the learning of function concepts when taught by instructional approaches thought to be consistent with these abilities. A secondary purpose was to determine the efficacy of these approaches at the eighth grade level. Three subtests…

The interrelations between mental age (MA), IQ, and mediation were studied in 72 retardates in special classes. Subjects were selected to fall into sexually balanced groups of six in 12 MA-IQ categories (IQ 50-59, 60-69, 70-79, and 80-89; MA 4-0 to 5-11, 6-0 to 7-11, and 8-0 to 9-11). The apparatus alternately displayed two pairs of stimuli, and…