Training courses organized by the World Bank Institute (WBI) have recently started to assess participant learning using a randomized, cognitive pretest-posttest. Some trainers, however, feel reluctant to use this Level 2 evaluation (D. Kirkpatrick, 1994) in their courses, and continue to rely on participants' self-assessment of their own…

Consideration is given to the importance of including ecological awareness in the education of young Americans. (FF)

The major finding of this study is that there is a larger socioeconomic status or Negro-White difference on intelligence measures than on measures of rote learning and memory. The difference in the performance of Negro and White children increases with age. (EH)

Authors repudiate excessive use of systems engineering models in education. Such models depreciate any learner-teacher-materials-interaction which cannot be assumed to proceed in a pre-determined manner. Efficiency measurement based on maximizing outputs and minimizing inputs produce a kind of prosaic mentality and obtuseness. (Author/PS)

Results of this study indicated that attitude conditioning increased with age and that the increase appeared to be a function of contingency awareness and perhaps also a function of the older subjects' having greater facility in transferring symbolic meaning. (Author)

Paper presents derivations of expressions for functions for any absorbing Markov-chain model. (Author)

Through project research undertaken by the students, each significant content aspect of the information course entitled Occupational, Educational, and Social Information'' will be directly experienced, or at least be experientially dealt with, and shared with others taking the course. In this way, important elements of information learning take…

Authors propose that the most significant differences among people in learning situations are intrinsic, and discuss developing individualized instruction programs for typical classroom subject matter through the use of prototypic learner models. (Editor)

Describes procedures, results, and conclusions of a study designed to compare urban children with suburban children on eight tasks of basic skills. The subjects were 1500 randomly chosen children in the first, second, and third grades. Children from different socioeconomic background performed differently. On many of the skills, third grade urban…

Seven experiments study the decrease in response to repeated visual stimulation in children's first four years. (DR)

The purpose is to explore two beliefs related to students' attitudes toward mathematics. First, certain attitudes toward or beliefs about mathematics are thought to be important objectives of instruction. Second, positive attitude toward mathematics is thought to play an important role in causing students to learn mathematics. (RP)