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Download full textDeutsch, Toni; Tobias, Sigmund – 1980
Two aptitude treatment interaction questions were investigated: (1) relationship between prior learning and instructional method, and (2) interaction between anxiety and the opportunity to rewind instructional tapes. Students from five educational psychology classes (112 undergraduate) were shown video modules under either of two conditions: (1)…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Anxiety, Aptitude Treatment Interaction, Group Instruction
Huebner, Thomas G. – 1976
Linguists of various theoretical backgrounds have likened second language (L2) acquisition to pidginization (Ferguson 1971, Richards 1971, Bickerton 1975a). This paper examines these two processes and suggests areas where a study of the process of second language acquisition in a natural setting might contribute insights to a general theory of…
Descriptors: Creoles, Language Patterns, Language Research, Language Skills
Gillan, Robert E. – 1978
The issue of specialized teacher education and certification for the middle school grades is discussed. The general background on teacher preparation for the middle school grades is covered, and findings of studies concerning teacher education and certification for the middle school are presented. The history of the growth of the middle school is…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Cognitive Processes, Learning Processes, Middle Schools
Hillman, Stephen B. – 1979
The study examined the effects of questions on learning among 90 intermediate level educable mentally retarded children. Four types of learning were identified as relevant remembering, incidental remembering, relevant inferring, and incidental inferring. Results indicated that question position was an important variable in influencing the learning…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Exceptional Child Research, Incidental Learning, Intermediate Grades
Popp, Jerome A. – 1979
A framework is suggested for the analysis of teaching, whether for purpose of research, evaluation, or moral inquiry, that is an alternative to the present form of analysis. This form seeks in the analysis of teaching those teacher characteristics that can be established as causally reactive in producing student achievement. Differing…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Philosophy, Educational Research, Learning Processes
MARSH, LUTHER A.; PIERCE-JONES, JOHN – 1968
TO INVESTIGATE THE EFFECTIVENESS OF PROGRAMMED INSTRUCTION AS AN ADJUNCT TO MORE TRADITIONAL METHODS OF COLLEGE TEACHING, THE EXPERIMENTORS IN THIS STUDY DEVISED METHODS OF TESTING RELATIVE EFFECTIVENESS OF TEACHING MACHINES, WORKBOOKS, SELF-PACED AND IMPOSED SCHEDULES, TRADITIONAL TEXTBOOKS AND SELECTED READINGS. THEY ALSO EXAMINED THE EFFECT OF…
Descriptors: Curriculum Evaluation, Higher Education, Learning, Learning Processes
NOREEN, DAVID SHELDON – 1966
THIS STUDY EXAMINED GROWTH MOTIVATION AS A DEVELOPING CONCEPT AND AS A THEORETICAL CONSTRUCT, AND THE IMPLICATIONS OF THIS THEORY FOR ADULT EDUCATION THEORY AND PRACTICE. SPECIAL ATTENTION WAS GIVEN TO THE THEORETICAL CONSTRUCTS OF ABRAHAM MASLOW, TO THE NATURE OF GROWTH MOTIVATION CONCEPTS IN GENERAL, AND TO FORMS OF SELF UNDERSTANDING AND…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Behavior Change, Educational Theories
Tye, Norwood Burl – 1966
Process guidelines for adult education program development were identified by means of a detailed search of selected literature. Definition of the program development process includes (1) selection of educational objectives, (2) selecting and organizing learning experiences to achieve objectives, and (3) evaluation. Publications since 1950 were…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Educators, Doctoral Dissertations, Educational Objectives
Noble, Robert F. – 1969
A research program on teaching instrumental music tested the value of concept learning for beginning band pupils for the first 12 weeks of their instruction. Eighteen randomly selected schools from Montana, Colorado, and Wyoming provided fifth-grade students (9 control classes and 9 experimental classes) who met in classes of 18 pupils for two…
Descriptors: Bands (Music), Concept Formation, Concept Teaching, Elementary Education
CLAWSON, BARBARA; SHOFFNER, SARAH M. – 1968
A SELF-INSTRUCTIONAL PROGRAM ON SEWING WAS DEVELOPED AND COMPARED WITH THE TRADITIONAL LABORATORY-DEMONSTRATION METHOD OF TEACHING. THE PROGRAM COMPRISED SECTIONS ON SEWING MACHINES, PATTERNS, AND BLOUSE CONSTRUCTION, AND WAS INTENDED TO ACHIEVE PERFORMANCE OF LABORATORY TASKS, UNDERSTANDING OF THE PROCESSES INVOLVED, AND PREPARATION FOR TRANSFER…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Observation, Programed Instruction, Programed Instructional Materials
Shulman, Lee S. – 1966
In this paper a description of educational processes serves as a model for a discussion of needed changes in the strategies and contents of educational research. The educational system in which a student functions is composed of his primary environment, the instructional environment, and the eventual transfer environments. When there is congruence…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Educational Research, Environmental Influences, Language Acquisition
Kingsley, Phillip R.; Hagen, John W. – 1968
Eighty nursery school children were randomly divided into four groups of 20 and given a serial short-term memory task in which difficult-to-label stimuli were used. Three experimental groups were provided with labels for the stimuli. Of these, one group overtly pronounced the labels and rehearsed them during the task, one group merely pronounced…
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Learning, Learning Processes, Memory
Stevenson, Harold W. – 1968
The research interests of developmental and educational psychologists concerned with children's learning appear to be converging. Simultaneously, the study of children's learning is at a significant crossroads. In the last decade, research has progressed rapidly and has moved from a problem to a variable orientation. If there is to be a…
Descriptors: Child Development, Developmental Psychology, Educational Psychology, Educational Research
Anderson, Richard C., Ed.; And Others – 1977
The conference from which the papers in this book are derived addressed the following questions: How is knowledge organized? How does knowledge develop? How is knowledge retrieved and used? What instructional techniques promise to facilitate the acquisition of new knowledge? Separate chapters address types of knowledge and purposes of education;…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Child Development, Cognitive Processes, Educational Research
Pia, J. Joseph – 1976
Some aspects of a general systems theory of second language acquisition are as follows: the system is greater than the sum of its parts; each component has a distinctive role in the overall operation of the system; some components may be entire systems themselves; the workings of the system proceed according to patterns, and rules for any given…
Descriptors: Factor Analysis, Grammar, Language Instruction, Language Patterns
