Examines three concepts crucial to the learning process: 1) student learning improves when they are involved in learning activities, 2) involvement through problem solving techniques maximizes student learning, 3) transfer of learning includes four basic principles. (Author/RK)

Skilled and unskilled readers from grades 3, 5, and 7 performed one of three memory tasks on a randomized list of primary word associates. Examined reading skill differences in relation to memory skills. (BD)

The author puts forward proposals for bringing together the pastoral care and academic systems normally kept separate in secondary schools. (Editor)

Offers a rationale for interdisciplinary arts programs and presents examples of aims and outcomes from the Visual Arts Interdisciplinary Concepts Curriculum that the author and fellow teachers in Attleboro, Massachusetts, have been developing and refining for over a decade. (Editor/RK)

An elementary teacher uses film-making as an example for students to understand just what is possible for them to achieve and that all learning is not fun. Learning also involves routine work, practice, memorization and exhausting effort. (Author/RK)

The article identifies and describes five broad curriculum data sources as wellsprings from which educational purposes and actions flow: society (social-political-cultural-economic forces at work), the disciplines (contributions of knowledge to learning), values, human growth and development, and learning processes. (Author/NQ)

The relative instructional effectiveness of five teaching methods, Reading, Lecture-traditional, Lecture-audiotape, Programmed Instruction and Multimedia, was studied. Comparisons were based on test scores obtained by trainee nurses on three different occasions following instruction on a topic in renal physiology. (Editor)

Given a set of dichotomously scored items, ordering theory attempts to identify a hierarchy among those items. A graphic representation is presented for an empirically obtained hierarchy and a testing procedure to evaluate hypothesized hierarchical relationships. (Author/JKS)

Current methods of testing reading ability do not give a full indication of children's reading ability and comprehension and may diminish pleasure in reading. (JD)

Describes the cooperative education program that is promoted by the Georgia Power Company and gives reasons why it is continued. (RK)

Assesses the influence of rehearsal on recognition reaction times for items from target lists of a length exceeding the span of immediate memory. Also determines what effect, if any, the length of the target list has on recognition latencies that involve only retrieval from inactive memory. (Author/RK)

Investigation by researchers into television viewing indicates that cognitive learning is supported, that affective learning is affected both positively and negatively, and that social impact is yet to be conclusively determined. (Author/MJB)

Suggests that instructional theory is possible, but it should concern itself only with narrowly circumscribed local instructional situations, relatively small chunks of curriculum for relatively small segments of the educational population. (Author/AM)

These experiments attempt to optimize the possibility of demonstrating blocking in a taste-aversion paradigm and to elucidate the conditions under which this interference occurs. (Author/RK)

In four different experiments, brief illumination of a localized visual stimulus was followed by grain presentation unless the pigeon approached the light. Results indicate that although response-reinforcer relations do play a role, stimulus-reinforcer contingencies are the dominant factor in establishing and maintaining approaches to the…