CRITERIA WERE DEVELOPED FOR THE DESIGN OF LABELS IN VERBAL-PICTORIAL EDUCATIONAL DISPLAYS. THE INFLUENCE OF SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION OF LABELS ON EASE OF LEARNING AND DEGREE OF RETENTION WAS INVESTIGATED. THIRTY ANATOMICAL PARTS OF THE HUMAN DIGESTIVE TRACT WERE LABELED ON 10 CHARTS SHOWING THE SAME DIAGRAM OF THE HUMAN BODY, BUT WITH DIFFERENT…

Characterizations, given in the form of descriptive adjectives, of second- through fifth-grade elementary school children by their classroom teachers and by classroom observers were analyzed in this report and compared with each other. Females consistently received more favorable characterizations than males, especially as reflected in teacher…

Issues involved in mainstreaming deaf and hearing impaired students are examined. The child's acceptance by hearing peers, possible psychological immaturity, controversies over manual communication and oral language, and factors affecting student placement are among the issues explored. Suggestions are given for classroom teachers working with…

IN ITS MOST GENERAL SENSE DISCIPLINE MEANS INSTRUCTION, WHICH IS A RELATIONAL TERM REQUIRING TWO THINGS FOR ITS EXEMPLIFICATION-- TEACHING AND LEARNING. INSTRUCTION INVOLVES BRINGING ABOUT BEHAVIORAL CHANGE THROUGH REGULATED BEHAVIOR, THEREFORE DISCIPLINE ALSO MEANS REGULATION. DISCIPLINE AS A RULE OF PRACTICAL CONDUCT AND AS AN ORGANIZED BODY OF…

THIS LEARNING ACTIVITY PACKAGE (LAP) IS DESIGNED TO GUIDE STUDENTS IN LEARNING HOW TO USE AXIOMS, IN WRITING PROBLEMS INTO EQUATION FORM, AND IN SOLVING EQUATIONS. IN ORDER TO ATTAIN THESE GOALS, THE STUDENT AT SOME POINT IN HIS PROGRAM MUST BE ABLE TO (1) WRITE A DEFINITION OF "AXIOM", (2) USE THE AXIOMS OF A FIELD IN SOLVING EQUATIONS, (3)…

Analyzed was the increase in problem-solving ability when students were exposed to, and participated in, various aspects of a problem-solving process. Also analyzed was the nature of the relationship between problem-solving ability, as measured by the author's instrument, and the intelligence quotient, creativity index, and sex of seventh grade…

Determined was the effect of advanced organizers, as defined by Ausubel (1963), on the acquisition and retention of meaningful verbal material by elementary education majors at Purdue University. Two approaches were utilized. In one, the experimental group was exposed to an 800-word organizer on two occasions prior to the study of the learning…

This report is a follow-up study of the 1964-65 School Mathematics Study Group (SMSG) pilot program on mathematics learning of culturally disadvantaged children. In the pilot program, the School Mathematics Study Group was interested in determining the effectiveness of existing SMSG materials in developing materials for teachers emphasizing…

Affective behaviors among 20 gifted students in day-to-day science classroom and laboratory situations were investigated. The course studied was developed at the University of Illinois with the support of the Illinois Demonstration Program for Gifted Children. Data were collected by direct observation, an interview, and a written test. Students…

Investigated were the inferences that children draw from science tests and their relation to the intuitive, concrete and formal levels of thinking and mental development postulated by Piaget. It was found that the older the pupil is, both chronologically and mentally, or the higher his grade placement, the more frequently he uses the formal level…

The experiment studied the "relative effectiveness of tangible and social rewards upon the performance of a simple discrimination learning task by culturally disadvantaged children." Also assessed were the effects of the sex of the subjects (Ss) and the examiner. Ss were 144 five- and six-year old youngsters in a Georgia Head Start…

Forty elderly adults were required to memorize a list of 15 simple nouns belonging to three separate categories. The arrangement of the list of nouns (randomized or completely categorized) and instructions (instructed that the nouns could be in terms of categories or not instructed) were manipulated as factors. Individuals participating in the…

The effects of two instructional modes, small group and lecture, were compared in remedial mathematics classes. Sex differences in achievement were also analyzed. Results include: small group instruction had a significantly greater positive impact on achievement than did lecture; females did significantly better than males on posttests in two of…

This study investigated whether infants who were given increased amounts of response-contingent stimulation would evidence positive and nonspecific transfer of learning to situations requiring new responses to control environmental events. Subjects were thirty 3-month-old biologically normal home-reared infants. Infants in the group assigned to a…

A conceptual framework for instructional design is introduced which includes three major components: task analysis (involving dimensions such as objectives, skills, and subject matter structure), learner analysis (concerned with variables such as age, population, and group characteristics), and means analysis (involving the selection of…