Examined relationships among the ABIC, pluralistic assessment's Estimated Learning Potential (ELP), and school achievement for elementary children. The ABIC is largely independent from both WISC-R IQs and achievement. In contrast to highly significant IQ-achievement correlations, the ELP-achievement correlations tend to be lower. (Author/BEF)

Summarizes proceedings of the Honors Symposium at the twelfth annual International Congress for Individualized Instruction (II) and lists speakers who have been pioneers in the field of II. (CS)

Overviews the present status and historical background of the audio-tutorial (A-T) method, by the innovator of A-T. (CS)

Reviews conditions for effective learning, discusses the limitations on learning imposed by group instruction, and describes methods employed by the author to increase individualization. (CS)

Reviews research in science instruction studies with similar independent variables, involving grades 6-12 and reported within the 1963-1978 period. An analysis of 52 studies revealed six clusters that possessed significant positive cognitive outcomes. Includes the finding that systematic innovation provides positive improvements over traditional…

Results of a study of the relationship between students' feelings about themselves as learners and teaching styles (teacher-directed v self-directed) indicates that students exposed to a self-directed model feel more successful as learners, more autonomous with respect to decisions about learning, and more cooperative with peers. The survey…

Five pieces focus on task commitment in gifted students. A discussion on assessment of task commitment is followed by articles from the perspectives of kindergarten, elementary, and middle school teachers and a parent. (CL)

An essay on the relationship of the visual arts to learning, particularly general vs professional art education, the question of artistic activity-making art vs viewing art, and the content of the visual arts. (Author/SJL)

Training involved instruction, performance feedback, role-playing, and social and monetary reinforcers. Among the findings were that training resulted in improvement in all 12 types of target behavior, and that treatment effects were rapid and were generally sustained after treatment had been discontinued for four weeks. (Author/DLS)

A description is given of how technology can increase students' performance and allow teachers to be effective with limited finances. (MK)

The effects of the academic environment, which is defined as the organization of curricula, teaching, and assessment on student learning, are examined. Focus is on students' perceptions of their courses and teachers in six departments at a British university, and the different demands that various environments make. (Author/JMD)

Current approaches to helping students learn, chiefly in Britain and involving groups rather than individuals, are reviewed and related to research on learning. Four issues are explored: learning and studying; problems of subject and context; change, autonomy and the learner; and the relationship between research and development. (Author/JMD)

The skills laboratory at Adelphi University employs a checklist as a tool to standardize rating of skills performance and provides for upperclass honor students to instruct students in need of improving their sports skills. (JMF)

Describes the use of interviews with children ranging in age from 6 to 13 to identify patterns of children's beliefs in the area of heat and temperature. Also discusses how this knowledge might be used in an instructional setting. (HM)

Some ideas are discussed for in-service work centered around three areas: views on the learning of mathematics, a shared language for discussing mathematics lessons, and techniques of observation and feedback. (MP)