An examination of models which have been employed in making predictions about the interference effect is made. It is pointed out that investigators mainly have relied upon the paired-associate model borrowed from classical studies in the field of verbal learning. This basic paradigm, represented as A-B, A-C, A-B, has produced fairly consistent…

A course in forming, decorating, glazing, and firing pottery is presented. Upon completion of the course, the student will be expected to be familiar with all terms and characteristics connected with pottery and ceramics, and he will be expected to be able to properly handle and form clay. Course content includes the history of clay handling,…

A SEQUENCE OF LEARNING TASKS WHICH USED NONVERBAL STIMULI TO INTRODUCE CONCEPTS OF VECTOR SPACES WAS CONSTRUCTED. THE SAMPLE WAS 20 CHILDREN FROM GRADES 5 AND 6 WHO WERE MATCHED ON THE BASES OF INTELLIGENCE, READING, AND ARITHMETIC ACHIEVEMENT. EACH STAGE OF THE PROGRAMED SEQUENCE WAS PRESENTED TO EACH SUBJECT AS A CONCEPT-FORMATION PROBLEM.…

Intended to be used as a teaching and learning guide, the basic course of study presented in these materials is designed to provide the essentials of the electrical occupations trade, insuring that the students who successfully complete the course will have sufficient competencies for initial employment and ample orientation for growth and…

Ninety-six males participated in four-man teams involved in a complex decision making task. Subteams with differing functions but equal rank were established. Subteams either were or were not physically separated during the tasks. Group cohesiveness was not effected, but subteam task satisfaction differences were greatest when subteams remained…

Children's self-control behavior in motor and cognitive tasks was examined in a series of two studies in which modeling and self-regulatory mechanisms were varied to assess the influence of each. In the first study, 6-, 7-, 9-, and 11-year-old children individually played a 20-trial game of 'Simon Says' (involving activation and inhibition trials)…

Noun-pair learning in twelfth graders was assessed as a function of ethnicity, I.Q., and instructional conditions. Learners instructed to generate sentences performed better than control group learners. The relationship between instructional conditions and I.Q. was significant, but ethnicity was not. Spontaneous elaboration is discussed as a…

Results varied as a function of : (1) type of task (transfer, paired associate, or visual discrimination); (2) student age (kindergarten, first grade, or college); (3) stimuli size; and (4) number of response indicators. Research findings cannot be generalized from artificial orthographies to the English alphabet or from various aged subjects to…

Fifth-grade children prerated both abstract and concrete nouns for likability, and paired-associate lists were constructed by pairing nouns. High self-concept children learned liked noun pairs more efficiently than disliked pairs, while the low self-concept children learned disliked noun pairs more readily. These self-concept patterns were most…

Limited attention has been paid to the impact of sex role stereotypical thinking on the performance of women in management. The author examines research on organizational factors. differential placement, tokenism, and supervisory bias. (Editor/RK)

Research validated a prediction, based on Fiedler's contingency model of leadership, that the most effective teaching style varies according to the favorableness of the situation for teaching. (GW)

It is recommended that doctoral programs for teacher educators be restructured to foster cooperative rather than competitive interaction as an initial step in reorienting the entire educational system toward cooperative models. (GW)

This study examined the effect of instruction on the correspondence between a model of the structure of concepts in a social studies unit (content structure) and a representation of psychological structure of subjects differing in field independence and dependence. (Author/MV)

This paper examines student attitudes towards academic women. University students (N=181) evaluated professors in terms of 21 semantic differential scales and an occupational prestige ranking instrument. Female professors were perceived as more competent than male instructors in both task and socio-emotional competence. Males were not assigned a…

Described is the approach to evaluating student progress in the Iowa Braille and Sight Saving School which is based upon observable behaviors in all subject areas from kindergarten through grade 12. (MC)