When less able students receive favorable instructional techniques and an educational program organized by underlying principles, they may achieve at the higher mental and/or complex skill levels achieved by very able students. Organization of content in the areas of mathematics, psychomotor, and games is discussed. (RL)

Sources of misconceptions and learning difficulties were identified by interviewing academically sound A-level students (N=10) who were having difficulties with genetics. Indicates misconceptions were related to nature of concepts used in genetics, such as frequent representation of meiosis by fixed inanimate stage diagrams and to instructional…

A review of studies on mental retardation published in the Soviet Union between 1970 and 1980 touches on physical and neurological issues, genetic studies, learning and memory, and emotional factors. General conclusions drawn include that more males are retarded or emotionally disturbed than females. (CL)

It was found, among other things, that six of the 24 variables on the Learning Style Inventory significantly discriminated between gifted and normal elementary age Ss, and that gifted Ss also tended to be highly individualistic in their preferences for sound, silence, interaction, temperature variations, intake, mobility, and time. (DLS)

Reviews and critiques the major findings in the simulation impact literature, and offers an impact evaluation of the recently developed urban politics simulation, "Urban Policy Game: A Simulation of Urban Politics." Particular emphasis is placed on the variety of learning experiences accompanying role-play simulations, especially verstehen…

The transference of oral language aptitudes to reading is discussed from a theoretical point of view and some practical suggestions for learning exercises are offered. (JMF)

Discusses four fundamental concepts of instructional technology that offer challenges to, and hence constitute impetus for, improving teacher education: use of a systems approach, exploration and application of all means and all media to achieve its ends, commitment to research findings, and emphasis on improving learning. (Author/JD)

Describes an approach to research into teaching and learning in higher education which has been experimented with at Manchester Polytechnic in Manchester, England. The approach centers around helping teachers to develop their own teaching tools instead of offering them ready-made teaching tools. (Author/DB)

The compound nature of Gagne's original definition of learning hierarchies leads to two methods of validation, the positive and negative methods. Sections of a hierarchy that had been validated by the negative method were subjected to test by the more cumbersome positive method, and again were found to be valid. (Author/RD)

Pictorial conditional reasoning test items which were varied according to principle of inference and type of content were administered to three groups of educably mentally retarded children. Results revealed that retardates' reasoning strategies were congruent with those reported for younger normals in previous studies. (Author/JKS)

Explores the role of slogans in education and explains how strongly slogans influence educators and students. Investigates phrases which are commonly used in education such as school for life, life in the school, life as a school, and democratizing teaching. (DB)

A discussion of the Curriculum Revision and Instruction in Mathematics at the Elementary Level (CRIMEL) Program is followed by a report on a related experiment to determine the effect of retesting on learning. (MP)

In an investigation using children experiencing reading difficulties, procedures involving partial reinforcement and attribution retraining were assessed in terms of their relative effectiveness in developing reading persistence. (Editor)

Forty-five children, ages nine through eleven, were divided into control group and experimental groups that read or wrote hunches concerning a discrepant event involving sliding blocks. Those who generated hunches were shown to learn more in subsequent inquiry behaviors designed to explain the discrepant event. (MLH)

Discusses ways in which the educational system discriminates against some students by the methods in uses to evaluate ability. (MLH)