The escalating success of personal coaching and the significant potential it holds as a vehicle for effective learning, appear to have had little impact within educational contexts to date. In response, this paper therefore presents an introduction to personal coaching practice and its outcomes and examines its processes through a discussion of…

Piaget's developmental theories can be applied to education in three ways: assessment of student readiness, curriculum planning, and choice of teaching techniques. (JH)

Scenario is intended to introduce readers to a possible new system of learning wherein each member of a community becomes a resource person. (GB)

This publication is designed for educators, researchers, and students in both school and university audiences. In an effort to give a more in-depth analysis of the Inquiry Type Science Curricula, this publication defines its terms, describes goals and objectives of modern science curricula, gives a history of, reasons for, and description of…

If there is to be some claim of uniqueness as related to adult learning problems it must come from the development of general principles for guiding learning tactics in the classroom. We are a long way from being able to discern how to correlate student/client abilities with appropriate tactics. Considerable research is needed to harness the…

This discussion uses the topics imagery and elaboration as vehicles for speculating about the psychological character of knowledge, about its relationships with learning and development, and about its implications for education. In brief, the argument presented suggests that elaboration facilitates learning, that such facilitation signifies an…

Boys and girls (10-11 years) responded in a speed task faster in the presence than absence of an audience. Children were faster with the same-than opposite-sexed audiences. The results were discussed in terms of same-sex competitive motives, sex-stereotypes, and opposite-sex distractability. (Author)

This article discusses criterion-referenced tests as learning guides, and outlines conditions necessary for the effective use of these tests. (Text is in German.) (Author/AM)

Part I of a 3-part report. See also AA 501 769 through AA 501 772.

Research performed under a Title VII grant from the U.S. Office of Education.