Investigated were the effects of learning potential and teacher expectancies on the IQ, school achievement, and teacher ratings of 58 educable mentally retarded students (7-15 years old). (CL)

The author presented young children with reasoning problems. Summaries of performance on diverse problems are presented. (SD)

Children's learning preferences sometimes appear to be unique and specific to their cultural groups. (MM)

Children 2 through 6 years of age were interviewed, and their parents and teachers completed a questionnaire about their perceptions of play. Most parents defined play as something for fun or amusement, while teachers saw it both for fun and as an opportunity for cognitive and social development. (PCB)

Two issues of college grading must be addressed if recommendations to improve teaching/learning are to succeed: GPAs should not be used for purposes of personnel selection, and it must be admitted that tests and grades have powerful influences on how and what students study and learn. (MLW)

Reported and compared are recent recommendations regarding the potential for computer technology in school mathematics. These recommendations are also compared to current practice and to earlier recommendations. (RH)

Several important issues to improvement of teaching and learning are identified: accountability, assessing effectiveness, increasing demands for data, expanding technology and research, and minority participation in higher education. Useful tools for institutional researchers emerging from work at National Center for Research to Improve…

Curriculum limits and channels the capacity of students to act in the world. This is especially true about the acquisition of reading skills. The skills, as formulated in the classroom, are unrelated to students' outside experiences or interests. To illustrate this, the example of a study of a community college reading course is presented. (VM)

Evaluated effectiveness of six instructional programs (each dealing with a different aspect of a spatial task related to diagrams of three-dimensional structures) with Bahraini students (ages 13- to 17-years-old). All brought about a significant degree of learning over all age groups. Implications of these and other findings are discussed.…

This study shows that a larger portion of faculty rating variance can be explained by students' subjective assessment of learning than by actual course grades. It is concluded that perceived learning is a significant predictor of both summative course and professor ratings. (Author/JAZ)

The cognitive processes through which college presidents make inferences and learn may bias their judgments under uncertain conditions. Data indicate that these biases may cause them to overestimate their own effectiveness. Leadership is in part a social attribution used by leaders and by followers to explain unusual organizational processes.…

Herbert Walberg's interpretation of a massive collection of data on school learning is discussed as a guide for inquiry and action by individual teachers. Walberg's study shows that while no single factor can produce marked increases in academic learning, an equation employing nine variables approximately predicts reported numerical measures of…

Points out that the effectiveness of microcomputer-based laboratory (MBL) activities will be examined. Also indicates that a study is being conducted to assess children's and college students' mental models of heat and temperature and to determine how these models change when students learn about heat through MBLs. (JN)

Describes an automated microcomputer system that can present precise stimuli and record accurate responses and discusses its use in studying and training retarded and psychotic children. It is noted that training procedures that require the children to utilize visual, auditory, and bimodal stimuli can be automated with the system. (MBR)

A study done based on the premise that classroom groups can help students develop their intellectual thinking and potential, especially their skills in critical thinking. Students were paired according to similar I.Q. scores. (EB)