Describes growing acknowledgment worldwide that educational services must train people and provide support systems for lifelong self-directed education. Outlines 10 basic elements of programs designed to teach self-education, including visualization, learning style, personal curriculum planning, risk experiences, and self-culture. (Author/BRR)

Examines visual cognitive processes having to do with perception, the assimilation of new information, and learning by analogy, and identifies instructional strategies to control each process. Discussion of relationships between visual learning and instruction includes implications for research and design. An extensive bibliography is provided.…

Research based on conceptual systems theory suggests that complex conceptual systems enable administrators to discern the complexities of organizational environments and to respond sensitively. Data from a study of 59 educational administration graduate students indicate that process-oriented theory coursework does affect students' conceptual…

This article is designed to encourage closer scrutiny of variables affecting career development processes of the talented. Discusses characteristics of gifted and talented and their career development needs. It stresses that career education interventions for gifted and talented students should be consonant with their personal abilities and…

Discusses problem-solving styles in environmental management and the specific deficiencies in these styles that might be grouped under the label "tunnel vision," a form of selective attention contributing to inadequate problem-formulation, partial solutions to complex problems, and generation of additional problems. Includes educational…

Forty children listened to stories and then answered questions about temporally neutral and temporally tagged information. Observed interactions among age, additional processing, and kind of information demonstrated the importance of the distinction between these types of information for developmental studies of memory of prose. (Author/DB)

Investigated effects of information on processing styles of subjects while controlling for decided/undecided subjects. Students were randomly assigned to the information or no information condition. No signficant differences were found between decideds and undecideds as a result of vocational information. (Author/RC)

Discusses the characteristics and educational needs of children with unrecognized giftedness and the specific role of curriculum and instructional methodology in the identification and development of these students' potential for exceptional intellectual achievement. (Author/RH)

Subjects were assigned to Zen meditation, antimeditation (control), or no-treatment (control) groups. Measures of anxiety showed a decrease after meditation, but no more than the control groups. State anxiety after stress showed no effect of meditation. Measures of perceptual functioning showed no differential improvement. (Author)

Presents the results of a study in aural training that analyzed freshman music majors' responses to rhythmic dictation exercises in the GUIDO system. An analysis of the data showed perceptual patterns and learning styles common to exercises in both simple and common meters. (AM)

Extrapolates some general guidelines for current classroom practice from Booker T. Washington's contributions to the theory and practice of education. (Author/WD)

Investigated and confirmed is a correlation between grades awarded on the basis of students' ability to respond with higher-order cognitive processes in college biology classes and performance on Piagetian-type tasks, in which cognitive style dimension of field dependence-independence was assessed for each student. (CS)

The reliability of Oltman's Portable Rod and Frame Test (PRFT) was assessed using 60 first-, third-, and fifth-grade children. Various reliability estimates ranged from .90 to .97. Age and sex differences were also examined. (Author/BH)

Experiential learning theory can be used to diagnose and understand both learners and learning environments. The results suggest guidelines for making liberal arts education more meaningful to learners by providing them an opportunity to develop adaptive competencies related to career success. (MSE)

Examines factors that influence college students choice of major and satisfaction with their choice. Findings indicate progress in the decision-making process most directly influenced choice of major. Gender, sex role attitudes, and cognitive styles had little direct influence on choice of major. Their influence was indirect, via the…