A review of 25 years of Piagetian research in intellectual growth as it pertains to the learning and understanding of mathematics and implications for teaching. (MM)

Author is concerned about the role of work in a technological society; the schools must follow the lead of field teachers in making an appropriate shift in the school from learning to work and to learning outside the school." (Author/SP)

Children must be taught skills to cope with the world outside of school. Studying literature and literary criticism helps develop these critical skills. (MF)

Four levels of quantitative comparisons based on Piagetian task analysis and three IQ levels were used to partition a population of 341 first grade children. Each child was then tested on a set of addition facts and a set of addition problems which varied according to the use of aids or transformation. (JG)

Even though students did not learn as much as the convential teacher taught" group, they still retained what they learned, perhaps because in playing the Life Career Game, students not only learn educational and occupational information but use this information to make decisions. The information becomes more personalized and is retained…

Just as there must be an understanding between counselor and client to effect a change in behavior, so should there be an understanding between counselor and administration concerning which responsibilities belong to the counselor and which belong to other school personnel. (Author/CJ)

Suggests a model which would enable counselor and teacher to become partners with child in helping him to improve his social learning. (Author/CJ)

This study compares the relative effectiveness of two types of visual materials used alone and in combination in a persuasive speech on attitude change, credibility, and retention. Concludes that such aids can affect attitude change and speaker credibility even though they may have little or no effect on retention of content. (Author/JB)

A total electric junior high school provides an optimum environment for learning. (Author)

Hostility scores, as measured by the Scrambled Sentence Test, were found to be statistically significant negative predictors of course achievement in a meteorology course at a military installation. (MS)

Modified twenty-questions and problems were solved by 72 subjects in a study of the influence of an adult model on the information-processing strategy used by children of various grade levels. (WY)