Evaluated was achievement in biology by tenth grade students in Cherry Hill, New Jersey. Three different student groups were exposed to the Biological Sciences Curriculum Study (BSCS) Blue Version, BSCS Yellow Version, and a general survey biology course respectively. Assessed were scientific literacy, increased understanding and ability to use…

The purpose of this study was to determine if a multi-media presentation facilitates synthetic responses. The variables, linearity and meaningfulness of the presentation, were studied using a 2 x 2 design with outside control. The five conditions were administered to 95 fifth graders. The synthetic responses were measured with three tasks. Task I…

This descriptive study proposed that students in a living-learning community would be more liberal in their attitudes, less tradiaionally oriented and more frequently hippie and activist in philosophy than a control group from the larger university. Females were anticipated to be more traditional than males. One hundred males and females from a…

This paper examines the issues for the group psychotherapist in relation to the training of the newer mental health worker. There is emphasis on the behavior and philosophy of the group psychotherapist in relation to the institution he is working in, the student he is teaching and his commitment. Examples are given in an academic setting, a field…

David P. Ausubel (1963, 1968) has developed a psychology of meaningful reception learning which is intimately related to instruction as it typically occurs in schools. A key component of this psychology involves the hypothesized effects of advance organizers has not been adequately evaluated. Previous investigations, while of theoretical interest,…

The impact of aptitude differences on learning performance is assessed. As a result of the assessment, instructional strategies are being developed to make efficient training programs for men of differing aptitude levels. Observations were that the high level group did better when left without a structured training program. The middle range was…

Attention has been studied in four major areas of research: 1) an orientation reaction which must be present before an organism can receive stimulation; 2) a mediating response which directs further action to the stimulus being presented; 3) a cognitive or perceptual state in which the organism selects certain stimuli and excludes others; and 4)…

This study investigated two functions that instructional objectives might fulfill in the learning situation: (1) organization and (2) orientation. One hypothesis was that instructional objectives can provide organization to learning materials. In this respect, objectives would provide little help when accompanying highly structured learning…

Discusses the advantages of more widespread instructional use of machine-readable materials from social science data archives. The author concludes that secondary analysis of archive data can have extremely beneficial effects on the students engaged in the analysis. (Author/DB)

An analysis of the rabbit problem reveals some of the fascinating properties of the Fibonacci numbers. (MP)

Five experiments investigated the differential effects of shock punishment on nonconsummatory licking (dry licking) and lever pressing. Results support a motivationally based theory of punishment involving the role of incentive stimuli associated with the particular responses studied. (Editor/RK)

Describes the learning characteristics of educable mentally retarded children and points out advantages and disadvantages of various approaches to teaching them to read. (DD)

The author discusses "academic" and "revolutionary" models of education as perceived in the People's Republic of China and illustrates the shift in official approval from the first to the second, with actual practice being a mix of the two. (MJB)

The director of the Central Intelligence Agency outlines needed skills and suggests how secondary education can encourage their development. (DS)

Comprehension involves the relationship of a child's knowledge and the organization of that knowledge as it relates to the material that he reads. (JD)