Questions that come before the relevant material seem to affect attention only, and questions that come after the relevant material seem to affect retention or rehearsal only. (Author)

Results obtained from the research were inconsistent, indicating no support for the thesis that objectives aid learning. Research recommendations are submitted, with conclusions drawn reflecting the positive attitudes toward presenting objectives. (JB)

Colleges must devise procedures, says the author, to help under-prepared students, who have been newly admitted, to overcome their deficiencies in academic skills. (Author/RK)

We need large scale social involvement which will mobilize the forces and institutions of society to bring pressure to bear upon the educational system. Until teachers can step out of their central classroom positions and into the role of agents for change, we may be stuck with our present inadequate system. (Author/CB)

Article considers the teachers' views of the ideal science pupil and factors which lead to success in work and examinations. (Author)

Presents three research studies illustrating applications of behavior management principles in three secondary school settings. (Author/RK)

Author's discussion is based on the following assumptions: (1) the greater the degree of correspondence between the student's language and his world, the greater are his chances for sanity and survival; and (2) creativity consists of seeing new relationships, forming new organizations, or building new cognitive structures. (Author/MB)

Article concerns a variety of training suggestions intended to stimulate student involvement in the learning process. (RK)

The identification of the structure of musical knowledge and of the stages of the learning process provide a basis upon which the teacher can structure the open classroom environment with assurance that the learning will be as logical as the student allows it to be. (Author)

Analysis of student and administrative attitudes toward grading systems reveals preference for pass/fail grading to letter-grading or numerical system. These results and inadequacies of letter grade system lead author to question why approximately 50 percent of 85 medical schools sampled persist in using it. (Author/LP)

The cognitive processes involved in a man's choice of words are discussed. (CK)

An experiment in the employment of community aides to bring the home economics program closer to the lives of students and parents in low-income neighborhoods. (Editor)