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Postman, Neil; Weingartner, Charles – 1969
Our educational system is traditional and backward-looking, and it produces students who cannot deal with change. It consists of an irrelevant, structured "subject matter" system where subject matter knowledge is the end goal, a paradox in an age of change. Traditional classroom organization must be eliminated (including grades, desks, courses,…
Descriptors: Discrimination Learning, Educational Change, Educational Games, Inquiry
Peer reviewedNovak, Joseph D. – Theory into Practice, 1980
A framework for using and changing concepts in the study of science is described. (JD)
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Concept Formation, Concept Teaching, Discrimination Learning
Peer reviewedCheney, Thomas; Stein, Norman – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1974
The effectiveness of three fading and two nonfading procedures were compared in training kindergarten children on an oddity problem in which shape was the relevant dimension. (SBT)
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Discrimination Learning, Kindergarten Children, Laboratory Equipment
Download full textLeBlanc, Judith M. – 1968
A sequence of studies compared two types of discrimination formation: errorless learning and trial-and-error procedures. The subjects were three boys and five girls from a university preschool. The children performed the experimental tasks at a typical match-to-sample apparatus with one sample window above and four match (response) windows below.…
Descriptors: Cues, Discrimination Learning, Learning Processes, Preschool Children
Peer reviewedMcIntyre, Curtis W.; And Others – Journal of Reading Behavior, 1970
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Deafness, Discrimination Learning, Handicapped Children
Tallmadge, G. Kasten; And Others – 1968
Two separate subject matter areas, which were felt to represent two distinct types of learning situations, were selected for investigation, namely, a kind of logico-mathematical procedure--the transportation technique, and a visual form discrimination task--aircraft recognition. Two separate courses were developed for each subject matter area. One…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Course Content, Discrimination Learning, Individual Differences
Schoen, Sharon Faith – Education and Training of the Mentally Retarded, 1986
The article reviews and analyzes existing assistance procedures with moderately to severely developmentally disabled students. Procedures considered include those performed prior to responding and those involved with fading assistance. Implications for selecting assistance procedures are examined. (CL)
Descriptors: Developmental Disabilities, Discrimination Learning, Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Processes
Peer reviewedHaslam, Audrey M. – Reading, 1971
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Auditory Perception, Discrimination Learning, Language Patterns
Peer reviewedBrice-Gray, Kathleen J.; Fink, William T. – Mental Retardation, 1979
Ten moderately and severely handicapped preschool children served as Ss in a pre-post-test design to evaluate the effects of cumulative and successive pairs programing strategies. (Author)
Descriptors: Discrimination Learning, Exceptional Child Research, Learning Processes, Mental Retardation
SMUCKLER, NANCY SIDON – 1967
TO STUDY WHICH OF SEVERAL CONDITIONS PROMOTES EFFICIENT CONCEPT LEARNING, AN EXPERIMENT INVOLVING 2 CONDITIONS, METHOD OF PRESENTATION OF STIMULI AND RATIO OF POSITIVE TO NEGATIVE STIMULI, WAS ADMINISTERED TO 80 SECOND-GRADE CHILDREN. THE CHILDREN WERE DIVIDED INTO 8 TREATMENT GROUPS. THESE 8 GROUPS WERE FORMED BY VARYING THE 2 METHODS OF…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Concept Formation, Concept Teaching, Discrimination Learning
Rowe, Bobby Louise – 1974
This study established a controlled instructional procedure for visual concept learning in a school setting and investigated the possibility that an ability trait difference could affect visual learning of the concept. A total of 84 high visualizers and 84 low visualizers were selected from 629 fourth grade children according to their scores on…
Descriptors: Art Appreciation, Art Education, Discrimination Learning, Elementary Education
HAUGHEY, BETTY E.; SHORT, JERRY – 1966
TWO STRATEGIES FOR TEACHING MULTIPLE-DISCRIMINATION TASKS WERE REPORTED. THE "MULTIPLE CONCEPT" PRESENTS SIMPLE DESCRIPTIONS OF SEVERAL RELATED CONCEPTS AT THE BEGINNING OF INSTRUCTION. INCREASINGLY COMPLEX MATERIAL PERTAINING TO THESE CONCEPTS IS THEN GRADUALLY INTRODUCED. THE "SINGLE CONCEPT" PRESENTS ONE CONCEPT AT A TIME,…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Concept Formation, Concept Teaching, Discrimination Learning
West, Leonard J. – 1980
Teachers and teacher educators seem to be little aware of some major concepts about instruction that provide important insights into the central requirements for learning. A common misconception is that motivation has to do with wanting or desiring. It is instead attention to stimuli that is influenced by two powerful agents--(1) suspense,…
Descriptors: Achievement, Behavior Change, Behavioral Objectives, Career Education
