The relative effectiveness of sentence and conjunction contexts in reducing negative transfer and facilitating learning is empirically investigated. (Author)

A breakdown in procedural education is responsible for the present inability to conceptualize change in medical education. (Editor/IR)

In a nation-wide sample of elementary and secondary schools in 122 school districts, the evidence suggests that there are relatively low levels of pupil participation in the standard learning procedures. (MF)

Describes a number of approaches that schools may take to humanize the educational system and counteract contemporary objectivity, dehumanization, and alienation. (JH)

Explains how a standard electronic computer function helps 2-man student teams solve engineering problems assigned as homework. The MOD function increases students' learning rate, helps them to understand theory and obtain correct answers in a system where a major percentage of their grades is based on homework results. (WM)

Recounts entrance of language study into the curriculum and suggests areas potentially interesting to students. (RD)

Process education teaches the student to analyze what is happening within himself when he is learning. This sort of education makes learning how to think a conscious, rather than an accidental, event. (CK)

Discussed adult education programs, the development of adult, continuing and lifelong education, and the abilities of older adults to develop their intelligence through participation in learning programs. (RK)

This analysis of the role of testing in educational programs and services maintains that the connection between tests and instruction is best made integrally through an understanding of the design of learning tasks rather than through linkage. The context for, use of, and limitations of task structures are described. (Author/CM)