This report presents the procedures, results and conclusions of a study designed to compare the effectiveness of several feedback modes for correcting errors in computer-assisted instruction. Seventy-five university upperclassmen were taught 30 general science concepts by means of a computer-assisted adjunct auto-instruction program. Subjects were…

This volume contains four articles by A. A. Krutetskii. The first article is a report of a study of individual differences in ability to solve algebra problems. The second article reports on a two-year study of a young girl who showed exceptional mathematical giftedness. Article three presents a summary of the author's theoretical position on the…

Funded by both public and private agencies, Sesame Street, produced by the Children's Television Workshop, is an experimental series of television programs for 3- to 5-year-olds. The program is considered a complement and supplement to early education since 4/5 of the nation's young children do not attend preschool, but do have television sets at…

This report describes a human relations training methodology which shows the basic importance of attuning students to their own private world of stimulation and is the cutting edge of the motivation to learn. The study includes four sections: (1) methodology of personal growth training, (2) an explanation of why such an intensive method of…

This study explores the possibility that a model developed by J.E.L. Farradane of London may aid in developing a teaching strategy founded upon some of what is known about conceptualization, and providing diagnostic procedures to apply in determining a frame within which to develop a prognosis to adhere to in directing specific concept…

Abstracts of research papers presented at the Research Reporting Sections of the 48th Annual Meeting of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics were compiled and edited by the ERIC Information Analysis Center for Science and Mathematics Education and are included in this publication. These abstracts describe research involving a wide…

This report investigates those factors, necessary for, or facilitative of, stimulus organization. Part I considers three experimentally controlled factors: (1) stimuli; (2) responses; and (3) temporal organization of stimuli. The results revealed that temporal specing accounted for different findings. When the intertrial interval (ITI) was present…

Previously published articles on child development and learning are collected in this textbook for college students. Topics include cognitive development, achievement behavior, and social development. (SBT)

Presented is a study of a science program for upper elementary and middle school children encouraging the development of logical thinking skills, describing variables, interpreting and criticizing experiments, and understanding experiment design. To provide a basis for the program, the students suggested projects to be done and developed…

The frequent claim that programs have failed and that the schools themselves have failed are largely based on one measure of success: achievement scores. This paper raises the question of whether or not alternative criteria of success might not be more appropriate. Gains in learning and the extent to which school learning is transferred to…

Drug education is conceptualized as a socialization process, particularly as it is related to assuming the adult role. The effectiveness of two processes of social influence, expert power and referent (modeling) power, were measured in three different age groups-early adolescence, middle adolescence, and adulthood-in a drug education program.…

The purposes of this cross-cultural experiment were to: (1) observe whether nonverbal teacher warmth increases the learning and verbal communication of Eskimo students, and (2) determine if Eskimos are more sensitive than whites to teacher warmth. Twenty village Eskimo students and 20 urban white students from the ninth grade, equally divided by…

The purpose of the study was to determine in what sequence skills in graph interpretation should be presented in grades K-9. A sequential list of mathematics skills for grades K-9 was constructed, graph skills were identified and arranged in a sequential and spiral manner, then graph skills were matched with appropriate mathematics skills and…

The author cites resons to be both optimistic and pessimistic about the futures of student personnel work. The basis of his optimism lies in the professional commitment to human learning goals and the expertise to become the instrument of learning valuation at a time when such a reordering of university priorities is probably critical. However,…

This study attempted to investigate the effects of school experience on visual perception tests involving line figures and forms. There were two experiments in this study. Experiment 1 examined the independent and interactive influences of school experience and chronological age in kindergarten children. Experiment 2 compared the effects of…