The Vicarious Learning project is aimed at understanding the role of dialogue in learning about complex conceptual domains. The fundamental assumption of "vicarious learning" is that students can receive benefits from exposure to discussions among their peers and between students and tutors. To elicit dialogues that can be captured, F.…

In this article the Human Development Program, or Magic Circle as it is often called, is described. Its contributions in promoting awareness and self confidence of both elementary school students and their teachers are cited. Comments are made on implementing a teacher training program in Magic Circle techniques. (EK)

Campus-expansiveness, decentralization, cooperative movements in education and nontraditional study all have changed the national picture of education as one to embrace everyone in the new learning society. (Author/PG)

A look at the many developments and movements afoot, bringing us closer to the day of being able to acquire information and knowledge on an instant-demand basis anywhere. (Author)

Thirty concepts from the areas of sets, division, and expressing relationships were studied with twelve tasks dealing with naming or selecting attributes or concepts involved. A factor analysis indicated that all concepts were measures of a single functional relationship and that all tasks measure a single underlying trait. (LS)

The visual imagery of kindergarten, third, and sixth graders was tested via a continuous visual recognition test in which subjects were to identify repeated pictures of familiar and nonsense objects. (Editor)

Studied the effects of eighth grade students' cognitive, motivational, personality, and classroom interaction characteristics on their academic achievement, attitudes toward science, and socio-metric measures. Concluded that a specified combination of student traits and teacher attention could lead to different unintential consequences in science…

The author discusses three types of instructional modes and offers some suggestions on how concord might prevail in tomorrow's schooling. (Author)

An assessment is made of the conflicting claims that either co-operation or competition between pupils facilitates pupil learning. (Author)

The thesis of this paper is that those who work in educational measurement must provide a wide variety of educational measures if educational decision makers are to have adequate amounts of meaningful and relevant information for the decisions they must make. (Author)

The purpose of this study was to investigate an alternative approach to the aptitude-treatment-interaction method of adapting instruction to individual differences. (Author)

Excerpted from author's book Stop School Failure'' published in 1972 by Harper & Row Company. Asserts that home and school can contribute to a child's school failure but more often the reason is the kind of body and brain the child has developed. (DS)

Traces development of Danish secondary school during last one hundred years. Notes learning differences and educational achievements between boys and girls. (DS)

Presents some important methods in which curriculums and educational structures can meet the needs of society and contribute to human learning. As well, the article points out some areas in which American music education needs to change. (Author/RK)

Compares and contrasts norm-referenced and criterion-referenced concepts which exemplify the transition from relative to absolute standards of educational evaluation. (Author/RK)