This study explored the cumulative effect of three years of exposure to teaching strategies being promoted in a local school district's systemic reform on elementary students' attitudes towards school science, awareness of science careers, and science achievement. The reform effort, referred to as the "Science: Parents, Activities, and Literature"…

A first grade teacher in a rural elementary school in upper East Tennessee observed that her students needed a better way to improve their computation skills than those of traditional instructional methods. The school system's new Mathematics textbook was correlated with commercial Mathematics software. The teacher wanted to find out if using this…

This book offers practical applications for exploring multiple intelligences in the classroom to help each student express his or her own personal learning rainbow. Special features of the book include seven complete lesson plans ready to be adapted to any grade level; objectives, activities, and applications that meet U.S. and California…

Reports research on game playing and the learning associated with it which had three purposes: to contribute knowledge to develop a theory of learning in games; to provide useful information about the effectiveness of games for game designers, teachers, and curriculum specialists; to develop a set of research instruments. (JM)

This is the first half of a dissertation about a method of predicting the learning time required for tasks consisting of manual skills and is mainly concerned with the fields of production, production planning, and operator training. The article will be continued in the December issue. (Author/MS)

Discusses the belief that meaning is primary to a child learning language and concludes that teachers should develop language programs in which the use of language would be essential rather than incidental. (RL)

Special issue on orthography. (DD)

Research supported in part by a grant from the U.S. Office of Education. (DD)

Author attempted to relate research in the area of musical studies with Leon Kamin's research with animals. The experiment with human subjects set out to measure the presentation of auditory stimuli without punishment as an indication of memorization processes. (RK)

This paper analyzes common practice and the difficulties children encounter and outlines an entre to mathematics learning which may make the child's task easier. (Author)

Author offers a way of viewing cognitive development that will engender some possible answers'' in early childhood education more consistent with human and humane development. (Author/CB)

Adaptation of a speech given at a meeting of the New York University Education Alumni in 1972 when author was awarded the 1972 Award for Creative Leadership in Education. (DS)

This paper presents a system for teaching basic reading to non-literate native speakers, and in three sections it covers the identification of psychological and linguistic foundations of the present literacy primers and for creative reading, concluding with a description of the system. (Author/RK)