An analysis based on an extensive review of the scientific and popular literature indicates that memory enhancement techniques (mnemotechnics) can be used to increase the effectiveness of military training. An overview of the most common memory enhancement techniques provides background for an assessment of the general utility of such techniques…

Internal verbal processes were assumed to play a central role in complex school learning tasks. The research reported was concerned with a certain class of internal verbal behavior. The implicit associative response (IAR) was conceptualized as an internal verbal response that may occur when an individual sees or hears a word. Results of four…

This bibliography was developed for the use of researchers and practitioners in the area of individual differences, learning and instruction. It is not exhaustive, given the enormous amount of writing on the topic, but hopefully it contains a useful selection of the work in this area. (Author)

The author identifies cognitive learning styles of subjects who derived maximum knowledge from simulation game activities. (GW)

The classroom atmosphere is crucial to the learning process, and the instructor is inevitably and inextricably a part of that atmosphere. (RC)

Results of an experiment with 6-month-old infants showed that response-independent auditory-visual reinforcement can elicit learned responses and that action-consequence learning in infants may consist of a combination of elicitation and conditioning. (Author/JMB)

Discusses Walberg's psychological theory of educational productivity, which is based on the Cobb-Douglas economic production function. The empirical finding that the educational production function is approximately homogeneous of degree one in the productivity factors, in accordance with theory, is noted, and it is shown how this agreement could…

The paper discusses 10 educational uses for the microcomputer in acquisition and maintenance of learning with communication-disordered children. Specific needs of communication and communication-related disordered learners are presented. Language arts, reading, and math as academic areas are viewed for remediation using, in part, microcomputer…

The highly gifted create structures, generate ideas, and efficiently process information in ways qualitatively superior to moderately gifted and average ability individuals. Consistent, accurate, and valid feedback is more difficult to obtain, and the net effect of this is a tendency toward low self-esteem. (Author/CL)

Creative thought can be promoted by an attitude of mind, the implications of certain philosophy of science trends notwithstanding. Since such an attitude should obviously be encouraged, various ways of accomplishing this are suggested. (Author/JN)

Provides comments on research studies related to memory systems, considering those exploring the nature of memory traces. One researcher suggests that memory trace circuits are extremely localized (as opposed to being diffuse), such that a lesion in a rabbit's brain can completely destroy the trace for a particular learned response. (JN)

This paper describes a relatively new approach to program evaluation, the "learning history" approach. The paper also presents preliminary results of a pilot test of the method and provides a preliminary account of how this new approach will be compared to the classic goals-based approach to evaluation. The learning history method was…

Prior research has identified four kinds of interaction that affect the learning process in distance education (D. Hillman, D. Willis, and C. Gunawardena, 1994; M. Moore, 1989). This paper defines, characterizes, and describes a fifth form of interaction of particular importance to certain learners, especially within the context of…

This article reviews characteristics of American folk heroes to show how much the demand for conventional "school learning" departs from the traditional set of American values. (JA)

Six categories of issues in an open learning system are explored, and the functional characteristics of an open learning system are described. (Author)