How can I help my children do better in school? Parents invariably ask this question. Here are 25 clip-out suggestions for parents to help their children and, in the process, become partners in learning with the school. (Author/RK)

Suggests that violent activities occur not because of reduced self-control, but because cognitive skills and self-control are used through moral justifications and self-exonerative devices in the service of destructive causes. Threats to human welfare are generally brought about by deliberate acts of principle rather than by unrestrained acts of…

Teachers in an elementary school decide not to match students with teachers. Instead, the teachers learn a variety of styles. (Author)

Considers the characteristics of large-scale spatial representations from three viewpoints and discusses a few implications of the existence of these representations for education. (Author/MLF)

Describes a study done to compare the cognitive preferences of four student populations: postgraduate students in chemistry, students from academic high schools, those in vocational schools training to become lab technicians, and students joining science clubs. Results of a 34 item cognitive preference test are summarized. (Author/MA)

Suggests that peer groups are a very important component of normal and successful classrooms. They matter to the educational system because they matter to children. The attitudes that children hold about their schools and about work are affected by their peer group relationships, which in turn affect the whole organization of the class. (Author/RK)

Describes an art museum program that attempts to test and evaluate various tour techniques, to involve schools in preparation and follow-up activities for museum visits, and to prepare and evaluate materials for the schools which could be incorporated into their curriculum. (Author/RK)

An analysis is made of the gradual learning process through which a child becomes bilingual from early infancy. (NCR)

Examines the development of organization and retrieval strategies in free recall in relation to the development of memory attributes. Second and sixth grade children and college students participated in the study. (BD)

This study combined research on conceptual hierarchies and research on conceptual cues, for the purpose of measuring the effectiveness of combining supplementary cues with text material that has been organized hierarchically. It was hypothesized that subjects provided with hierarchical cues would score higher on post-tests measuring comprehension…

The philosophy of education is presented in seven areas as an everyday guide to action and decision-making. (Author/MLF)

Two autistic boys, ages 6 and 10 years, whose imitative responding was functionally inaccurate and whose performance generalized poorly, were trained to imitate accurately using a reinforcement-extinction strategy. (DLS)

Educational methods used by simpler societies of the world are discussed as appropriate for incorporating into modern, technologically-oriented institutions. It is suggested that traditional, free exploration by children can be merged into the school curriculum, allowing freedom and learning by experimentation with or without the teacher. (LBH)

Research has shown that mental imagery stimulates various types of learning. This research investigates a procedure designed to evoke and enhance mental imagery in a classroom learning situation. The content area selected for study was spelling because so little progress in instructional approaches has been reported in the literature. Compares the…

Investigates the effects of an advance organizer lesson, presenting high-order science concepts and an elementary problem solving strategy for determining causal relations on children's use of operations of exclusion (as defined by Inhelder and Piaget, 1958). Results suggest that acceptable solutions to problems requiring the operations of…