Describes a teaching device, computer-controlled, that is used in the U.S.S.R. as an introduction to the elements of piano playing. (Author/RK)

Author explains his model of instructional development for initiating and continuing change in education. (HB)

Article discusses student knowledge of learning progress from an individualized instruction point of view. (Author/HB)

Communication is examined as a process generic to and compatible with the evolution of the neurologic substrates, the expression of emotion, and the developmental progression and acquisition of intelligence. (Author)

Chapter examines three classes of consequences of potential importance to all teachers and provided examples and suggestions pointing to the developing importance of knowledge of stimulus control procedures for teachers. (Author/RK)

The present study is based on a form of task analysis that explicates in detail the hypothesized solution behavior of skilled performers of the task. (Authors)

The purpose of this article is to suggest the beginning of an answer to the question Why teach mathematics?''-an answer that differs from one suggested by today's elementary school textbooks and classrooms. (Author)

The chaining, position, and dual-process hypotheses of serial learning (SL) as well as serial recall, reordering, and relearning of paired-associate learning were examined to establish learning patterns. Results provide evidence for dual-process hypothesis. (DS)

Research based on author's master thesis and supported by funds from the National Science Foundation. (DS)

Author describes a variety of innovative teaching methods designed to prompt students to learn and appreciate music. (RK)

Until both public and profession look on evaluation as an important, continuous activity in bringing about instructional improvement and an integral part of the instructional process itself, and until this view is reflected in the allocation of talent, time, and money, evaluation will continue to be an ineffective tool at best. (Author)

Study is an investigation of the effects of an attention-focusing variable--spatial separation of central and incidental cues--and a cognitive strategy factor--verbal labeling of central cues--and their interaction on the incidental learning of Ss younger than those previously tested with these manipulations. (Authors)

Defining field sensitive teachers as those who are warm, personal, and use the deductive approach and field independent teachers as ones who appear to be more formal and who employ inductive methods, this research indicates that proper development of educational environments will allow children of any cultural background to function in either…

The purpose of this paper is to review Professor Peters' notion of education as initiation' and to suggest that it involves a paradox of freedom for both teachers and pupils. (Author)