The differences in learning potential among educable adolescents is discussed in terms of high scorers, those who learned to solve problems on the Kohs test while doing the first trial, gainers who experienced difficulty but showed marked improvement following tutoring, and nongainers who did not improve after tutoring. The reliability of the Kohs…

In this seventh paper of the Research Review Series, commissioned by the Science and Mathematics Education Information Analysis Center in cooperation with the National Association for Research in Science Teaching, 189 studies in the ERIC SE collection which are concerned with secondary school science, published in 1968 or 1969, are cited and…

One procedure that can be used to individualize instruction is to teach different pupils by different methods with the intent of reaching a common goal. A cybernetic (self correcting) procedure is proposed for manipulating instructional displays so that after a period of time the instructional procedure used is optimal for a given individual. This…

This paper called attention to needed research in the application of principles of learning to American Indian education. The matter of suitable rewards (contingency management) was examined, and 5 areas of needed research were identified. Concept formation was felt to be the heart of language learning, and 3 kinds of research problems in terms of…

This bibliography on the improvement of teaching and learning in higher education was compiled from materials published by the Center for Research and Learning at the University of Michigan. Its 74 references are primarily documents and books published in the 1950's and 1960's, along with a few articles from educational journals. (AF)

This study sought to determine whether a number of specific counting and numeration behaviors emerge within children in a fixed developmental sequence; at what point in the development of mathematical behavior the use of numerical representations normally appears; and what relationship holds between development of counting skills and development…

The objectives outlined for the seminar included the identification of learning problems encountered in curriculum projects in Asia and the development of solutions for these in the light of past or future research on concept development. The report is divided into six chapters. Chapter one presents a comprehensive review of literature on the…

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of providing behavioral objectives on the learning, forgetting and retention of high school algebra. A sample of 52 algebra I students was randomly divided into two classes, both of which studied a programed course of instruction written in the framework of a learning hierarchy. The measures…

An educational program assessment of the University Without Walls (UWW), located in Tahlequah, Oklahoma, and known as "Flaming Rainbow," was presented in this document. The evaluation was conducted during March 27-30, 1973. The 6 American Indian participants, who are financially supported by the Bureau of Indian Affairs' (BIA) Higher Education…

Reported is a study of the importance of the direct manipulative experience in the attainment of science process skills for kindergarten and grade three pupils. Typical self-contained classes were selected to learn exercises from Science - A Process Approach. Some pupils were allowed to manipulate science materials in learning, while others were…

The experiments discussed in this report do not have a direct relationship to each other but represent work on a series of sub-issues within the general framework of visual processing of information. Because of this discreteness, the report is organized into a series of papers. The first is a general review of tachistoscopic work on iconic memory…

Fifty-three abstracts of papers presented at the first National Symposium on Methods of Learning Environmental Science, held in Chicago, Illinois, November 4, 1972, are compiled in this booklet. With an objective of exploring innovative ways of presenting environmental science at all levels, the symposium offered both lectures and workshops for…

This study investigated the 3-year effect of a field-based teacher education program, which significantly decreased teacher-pupil ratio, upon elementary school children's learning in a midwestern city. A pretest/posttest design controlling for the testing situation, the teacher, the school, and the ability of subjects (Ss) grade levels in both an…

This research studied the processes which enable people to acquire semantic information from natural-language discourse. Specific objectives were: (1) to represent semantically the structural meaning of English discourse by a well-defined semantic model; (2) to develop a way of using the semantic representation of a text as a structural model for…

The studies and research reviews included in the annotated bibliography consist primarily of published works dealing with the effects on learning from instructional materials of overt and covert responding, and such attention-directing devices as the presentation of instructional objectives and test-embedded questions. Sources used to identify…