A State Curiosity Scale (SCS) was developed to be a self-reporting measure of a student's level of specific epistemic curiosity aroused by learning materials. The state of epistemic curiosity was conceptualized as a transitory emotional or motivational condition of the student, the arousal level of which was expected to vary across time, both with…

The problem investigated was the analysis of a complex figure by identifying simpler figures embedded in it. The primary goal was to determine the level of sophistication of analysis employed by children in the primary grades; a secondary goal was to determine if students could be led to expand their analyses. Drawings and problems were prepared…

Mistakes made by college students in learning the language of set theory are identified and classified. Four main types are noted: intersection mistakes, errors in null set problems, mistakes in which the answer was the same as one of the given sets, and errors where the answer given was the complement of the correct answer. Causes of the errors…

Assessed were: (1) the relationship between student ability to do critical thinking and to achieve in biological sciences with facilities and equipment (Factor F) and instruction methods (Factor M) and (2) current attempts to upgrade facilities and equipment and to establish the inquiry approach in biology classes. Twenty-five randomly selected…

The model as currently developed consists of three major aspects: contexting, operation, and memory. The contexting aspects of the model are concerned with the higher level cognitive behavior associated with selection of appropriate behavior, maintenance of goals-directedness, and evaluation of completed behaviors. The operational aspects of the…

Contributions of rule, attribute, and complete learning to solution of low (conjunctive) and high (conditional) level concept attainment problems were assessed in 2 experiments. Direct learning and transfer of models was compared with vicarious learning and transfer of observers. Subjects in the latter condition observed yoked models solve the…

In the first part of this paper, the purposes of behavioral objectives are outlined; research is then summarized, including the influence of knowledge of the behavioral objectives on a learner's performance, teacher recognition of behavioral objectives, and student attitudes to behavioral objectives. The second part presents a summary of methods…

The nature of the relationship between cognitive flexibility and ability to learn prose material differing in cognitive demand was investigated. Ninety-four Ss were administered (1) a prose learning task incorporating subtasks from the first four levels of Bloom's Taxonomy and (2) the PM Scale, a measure of cognitive flexibility. It was…

Two main problems were examined in this study: Does the providing of a direct formalized feedback experience to group participants accelerate their learning thereby producing greater changes in attitude and behavior? Does the group counseling experience produce a change in the participants' attitude and behavior? To measure behavioral and…

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effects of Continuous Progress (mastery) instruction on acquisition, retention, and transfer in an introductory college physics course. Freshmen, stratified according to major, were randomly assigned to Continuous Progress and Traditional Instruction groups. The Continuous Progress group showed greater…

This is the first issue of a new quarterly series containing expanded abstracts of recent research in mathematics education. (Previous issues were occasional publications of the School Mathematics Study Group.) The twenty abstracts review research articles published in the past two years, and are classified in four sections: (1) Aspects of…

A survey of the discharge status of institutionalized educable mentally retarded patients who had been studied with the Kohs Learning Potential (LP) assessment measure in the early 1960's was undertaken. Learning potential was strongly associated with the fact of discharge. The more able patients by the learning potential criterion also had higher…

A STUDY WAS UNDERTAKEN TO INVESTIGATE FOREIGN LANGUAGE LEARNING IN BOTH INTRAINING AND FIELD PROGRAMS OF THE PEACE CORPS, AND TO DETERMINE INDIVIDUAL AND EXPERIENCE FACTORS AFFECTING THE RATE OF LANGUAGE LEARNING. THE OBJECTIVE WAS TO DEVELOP A PROTOTYPE FOR A PARAMETRIC STUDY INVOLVING SUCH FACTORS AS LANGUAGE APTITUDE AND PRIOR LANGUAGE…

The study was concerned with the formation of grouPs of students and specifically addressed the problem: Can a computerized Procedure be developed which assigns students to instructional groups, which maximizes the homogeneity of these groups when this homogeneity is based on relevent student learning characteristics, and which takes account of…

A model is presented which incorporates certain features lacking in many schemes: it proceeds in a systematic manner; it addresses the interaction of cognitive processes and instructional task demands; it provides for continuous evaluation and modification; and it deals with measurable behaviors. It is divided into three components adapted from…