A study to determine the relationship of a teacher's characteristics and experience to a learner's cognitive attainment of law-related content is discussed. Over 1,000 learners and 57 teachers who had participated in a Law in a Changing Society Workshop provided data for the study. The workshop provided participants with law-related materials and…

The Classroom Behavior Rating Scale (CBRS) was developed to provide school psychologists and educators with a measure of learning-related classroom behaviors of elementary school students. The initial item pool consisted of 100 behavioral statements reflecting learning-related behaviors such as attention and persistence. These behaviors were…

Authoritative European research in audiovisual aids to learning is cataloged and summarized for the first time in this publication. The period covered is 1945 to 1963. Items are arranged by reference numbers which are based on 10 subject catagories: films, still projected media, non-projected media, museums, perception, radio, discs and tape…

This study compared the perceptual field approach learning theory with conventional theories based on reinforcement and conditioning. The aim was to achieve significant improvement in the self-adjustment of slow learners while not inhibiting their learning of biology. The California Test of Personality and the Nelson Biology Test were given as…

The planning and realization of a one room schoolhouse in Houston, Texas to be part of a complex which will include a junior and senior high school. The educational premise of the structure is that the school which traditionally has been an instrument organized around the concept of convenience for the administrator and the teacher, now…

Research literature concerning children's comprehension of pictures was compiled in order to clarify the role of textbook-type pictures in primary school children's learning of mathematics. The review is presented in eight sections: (1) psychological studies which investigated the role of imagery, comparing pictures with words, including (a)…

This report collects together three presentations given by the author at scientific and professional meetings during the Spring of 1977. The first discusses present views of the variety and complexity of individual differences among human beings in the context of current research on cognitive processing in learning and instruction. The second…

Summarized in terms of competence and performance models is the development of questionning behavior in the language repertoire of retarded children. The role of questions, particularly WH questions, is reviewed in adult language (semantics and pragmatics) and children's language (receptive and expressive abilities). Discussed is research dealing…

The purpose of this study was to explore the effects of intensive instruction (II) in either the observation of details (cue attendance - CA) or the production of tenable hypotheses (hypothesis generation - HG) about a science problem. Two questions were investigated: (1) Were there significant differences between students intensively instructed…

This paper describes preliminary results of a study designed to explore the issue of translating geometric ideas from a diagrammatic mode to a verbal statement, and vice versa. The research model calls for comparisons of responses under 16 different conditions; these conditions are defined by question type and the nature of the translation to be…

This study explored whether student generated questions aid learning and, more specifically, whether the effective conditions of learning in this learner controlled situation resemble those which occur when questions are instructor imposed. Sixty-four high school students were paid to serve as subjects in this experiment. These students engaged in…

Presented is the instructor's manual for a course in assessing behavior of the developmentally disabled. Suggested are techniques for teaching the course, and provided are the correct answers and assessments for five workbook units dealing with such topics as use of formal and informal evaluation, and learning modalities assessment. Included is a…

The focus of this study was the differential effects of a bilingual teacher and a nonbilingual teacher on the activity and interaction systems of classes where approximately 80 percent of the children were from bilingual homes. Special emphasis is on the general effects of teacher behavior on learning. Two teachers in an open-classroom school were…

Psychological modeling, the phenomenon referring to the tendency of individuals to imitate higher status persons, peer group members, and other relevant models, has been used as a device for modification of existing behavior and acquisition of previously unlearned behavior. In this study, 48 preservice teachers were randomly assigned to two…

Third grade subjects were classified as impulsive or reflective on the basis of the Matching Familiar Figures (MFF) test. In Experiment I, subjects were given either convergent thinking tasks, brainstorming tasks, or a control task. In Experiment II, half of the subjects received difficult tasks intended to induce failure while the other half…