Authors aim in this paper is to clarify technology's impact on learning and to illuminate the forces behind this impact, so that informed citizens may participate more fully in guiding a coherent evolution of the nation's strategic resources for learning. (Authors/CB)

Tests were given after instruction in probability and four weeks later to 25 sixth graders. Correlation between achievement scores for each student was .78. Retention ratios for individuals, total tests, each objective, and each item indicated high initial performance may contribute to high retention. (Author/DT)

Describes procedures, results, and conclusions of a study designed to determine if instruction on excluding irrelevant variables enhanced learning the principle of flotation. The subjects were 97 seventh grade, 259 eighth grade, and 38 college students. Results indicate that learning to exclude the false principles before learning the correct…

Explains why the practice of round-robin oral reading leads to frustration, rejection and failure for slower students, boredom for better students. (DR)

Describes curriculum materials that can be incorporated into an easily managed instructional system that allows for the accurate diagnosis of each students' learning needs. (Author/LF)

Educators need to develop evaluation schemes which are positive in nature and geared toward recording what a student does, rather than what he fails to do. (Author)

Reliability and validity of the methods used to obtain articles in the literature search were established, and trends in learning research with the retarded were noted. (KW)

Discusses goals of early education, and the qualities of programs, teachers and administration which would help to implement these goals. (NH)

Reinforcement conditions of approval, disapproval, or silence were used during a discrimination task assigned to 96 boys and 96 girls. Children receiving criticism responded at slower rates and made more errors than children receiving praise or silence. Retention was measured after 8 days. Results suggest that disapproval negatively affects both…