This study investigated the ability of middle school children to perform Euclidean transformations mentally. The results indicated that the tasks were more difficult than Piagetian theory would indicate. (SD)

Examines methods used in analysis of school and home effects in three recently published International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement studies. Results of this examination lead to different results than those found in the original study. (Author/DEP)

Ninth-grade students were given a battery of cognitive aptitude tests and randomly assigned to verbal or figural mathematics instruction. Learning and retention were correlated with the aptitude measures and other fixed variables; regression analysis indicated the importance of memory, semantic factors, and sex difference. (SD)

Describes research studies stimulated by the concern for facilitation of logical operations in elementary school and junior high school children and based on the assumption that the level of reasoning used for inquiry and concept acquisition by every individual is substantially below his capacity. (PEB)

The research was designed to test the hypothesis that, in the teaching of family relationships to college students, the concept method (experimental) produces greater acquisition, transfer, and retention of knowledge than the expository method. (Author)

Ways that population trends, societal pressures, and changing economic conditions affect learning needs are addressed. Small and large colleges are given information to help them evaluate their missions, chart new directions, and make necessary adaptations in their curricula. The three issues addressed are the theoretical formulation of the…

The identification of students' learning styles and the subsequent correlation of them with teaching styles have important implications for curricula and instruction. The cognitive, affective, and physiological aspects of learning style are based on genetic structure and personality and are affected by the individual's developmental and…

This paper inquires analytically about the connotative meaning of the terms poverty and learning as they function in the language of comparative education research. In the analysis of concepts, the analytical techniques used are the techniques of definition, explication, illustration, and substitution. Four conceptions of the term learning and…

Responses to a three item questionnaire administered to 105 seventh grade students indicated that less than 40 percent favored greater individualization of their science classes. (PB)

The document contains the texts of 13 presentations made at the 25th annual meeting of the Far Western Philosophy of Education Society in December, 1976. Topics include Rationality and Public Education; Education for Womanhood; Alternative Learning and Alternative Assessment; Man, Nature, and Social Management; The Public School and Its Moral…

Abstracts of 28 research reports are provided. The reports were prepared by investigators for presentation at the 56th annual meeting of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics. A broad range of topics related to mathematics education is covered. Ten reports deal with problem solving, four are concerned with instructional methods, three…

Eighteen research reports related to mathematics education are abstracted and analyzed. Four of the reports deal with aspects of learning theory, five with topics in mathematics instruction (history of mathematics, exponents, probability, calculus, and calculators), four with teacher characteristics, and one each with testing, student interests,…

Describes the problems involved in teaching speech communication to Japanese businessmen. Basic cultural and linguistic differences are identified. (MH)