Article suggested where the teacher's role lies in an open education environment and offered an idealized, stylized description of the teaching process in the informal class situation. (Author/RK)

In this article, the author, an elementary music teacher with the Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools, offers suggestions for developing music materials for the open classroom. (Editor/RK)

Describes a study designed to determine the effects of Science: A Process Approach (SAPA) on kindergarten children's ability to conserve on six tasks. It was concluded that the rate of attainment of conservation skills is affected at least in part by the experiences made possible by SAPA. (JR)

Seventy-two educable mentally retarded 11-year-old children were divided into a low mental age (MA) group (MA 87 months) and a high MA group (MA 106 months) to compare performance on the solving of variously presented verbal arithmetic problems. (Author/MC)

The effects on instrumental behavior of differences in type of task, type of reward and three organismic variables (history of social reinforcement from peers, extraversion, and intelligence) were investigated in preschool children. (ST)

Described a cooperative effort in instructional development in the community colleges in New York State. (Author/RK)

The purpose of this paper is to examine the question of student needs and the role that the "Our Schools" Project plays in their satisfaction. (Author/RK)

Study was concerned only with the impact of tutoring on the tutor's learning and attempted to determine whether tutors cognitively restructure the material in anticipation of teaching it to someone else. (Author/RK)

A report on a study which examined the possibility of instituting a merit pay plan in a small school district in California. The paper is a preliminary investigation aimed at focusing attention on the substantive issues of merit pay and their effect on instructional performances. (Author)

In this article faculty responsibility in several areas was considered, primarily responsibility for the conduct of the instructional process and responsibility to oneself and one's profession. (Author/RK)

Discusses the learning process and language usage in the English classroom, building on a theory of language originated by Alfred Korzybski. (RB)

A discussion of the Selcuk Network, a scheme which achieves response routing on the basis of strictly local information, pursuant to the broadcast of a general message, it has applicability to content-based addressing and to computor-to-computer communication nets. (Author)

The study tested the existence of communication between visual and haptic senses with 3- and 5-year-old children. Major finding: only visual-haptic training improved performance on the haptic indentification test. Apparently there was no transfer across sense modalities. (ST)

Describes a mathematics program designed to enable students to feel secure in learning a subject that is often confusing. (RK)