Presents a set of exercises designed to take the student past cultural barriers to environmental awareness. The purpose is to pose environmental problems through contrived, open-ended situations, permitting a wide variety of approaches, attitudes, and values to come into play. (Author/GA)

The purpose of this study was to identify a possible interaction between the cognitive style of the students and the instructional sequence of the materials and their combined effect on achievement. Findings indicate that interaction of cognitive style and instructional sequence is not significant in the ANCOVA. (Author/MA)

Provides a survey of the changes in the aims of science teaching for the 11-16 age group since the 1840s, and briefly describes some of the influences responsible for the changes. (GA)

Three instructional settings were compared to determine which was most effective: no aids, two-dimensional aids, or three-dimensional aids. Results favored the three-dimensional aids. (MP)

Learning counseling is described as a small group, academically-oriented counseling process. The results of studies indicate that learning counseling is a viable support service that helps students interact more effectively with their learning materials and adapt to different learning environments. (Author/LBH)

Two chief personnel officers review external regulation and provide guidelines for institutional responses to these regulations. (Author)

The kind of education needed after the industrial and social revolutions is discussed by the director of Leeds Polytechnic. Focus is on a critical review of the immediate educational inheritance, a personal outline of the relevant realities of the world in terms of technology and design, and an approach to a more creative educational pattern.…

A method is discussed for learning the multiplication tables that avoid repeating tables everyday or memorizing a large body of facts at the same time. (MN)

Discusses the nature of science and addresses the question of why scientific knowledge cannot be absolute. (SL)

The author accepts some of the technical comments in Dresher and Hornstein's article on artificial intelligence (AI), (EJ 161 384, Cognition, December 1976), but disagrees with several other comments. Although Dresher and Hornstein unquestioningly adopt Noam Chomsky's paradigm for the study of language, their real point is that AI researchers are…

Argues that an alliance of professional interests is the most effective way of mounting a preventative program to help children in the early stages of learning difficulties. (Editor/RK)

New editions of selected college textbooks have been found to be more difficult than former ones, and experiments show that students learn less effectively from the new editions. Guidelines are offered for choosing textbooks, such as writing style, conceptual density, and the utility of readability analyses. (Editor/LBH)

States that the Rockefeller Report, "Coming to Our Senses", reflects the preferences of a particular interest group that has assumed power in cultural and educational matters during the past fifteen years. Critically examines the Report's weaknesses and deficiencies which, says the author, seriously disqualify it as a guide to policy.…

Recommendations for teaching problem solving stem from a discussion of the differences in the functioning of the left and right hemispheres of a person's brain. (JT)

Reviews articles appearing in this special journal issue dealing with questions pertaining to the evaluation of learning. (SL)