Discusses college students' general disregard for factual information when writing political science examinations. Concludes that students should be taught to support answers with factual information. Suggests ways to construct examinations which require factual knowledge. (Author/DB)

Discusses three experiments designed to examine the problem of the internal representation of meaning of a verbal stimulus. (Text is in Italian.) (CFM)

Focusing on the brain's natural functions, this article discusses specific teacher characteristics, teaching methods, and peripheral stimuli helping to activate appropriate learning behavior. Also identifies particular events and teacher behaviors that block learning and frustrate the brain's efforts to harmonize conflicts and admit new…

Notes that many students lack the skills necessary for the efficient memorization of content information as well as awareness of appropriate rehearsal strategies or metacognitive skills. Discusses several rehearsal strategies, and concentrates on one--study mapping. (FL)

Tests the development of phonetic codes in the memory of 141 pairs of normal and disabled readers from 7.8 to 16.8 years of age. The measurement task assessed false-positive errors in recognition memory for foil words that rhymed with words in a memory list versus foil words that did not rhyme. (Author/CI)

Problems of education include constructing rural schools, integrating development of knowledge and creativity, improving textbooks, minimizing student memorization, improving teaching methods, improving vocational education, inculcating high morals, increasing patriotism, and improving teacher training. (ND)

These days it seems as if nearly everyone in college is receiving A's, making the Dean's List, or graduating with honors. What is more interesting is that college students in general are spending fewer hours studying, while taking more remedial courses and fewer courses in mathematics, history, English, and foreign languages. Students everywhere…

A series of 7 experiments was conducted to test whether the nature of prior encoding determines performance on tasks which require Ss to retrieve information from long-term storage. (Editor)

An experiment is reported in which attention to one channel of a dichotic presentation was controlled by requiring S to memorize the list of verbal items presented over that channel. (Author)

Kindergarteners asked to predict which of 18 unrelated pictures they would be able to recall were shown to be as discriminating as older children at predicting memorability in a signal-detection analysis. Justifications for why items were memorable showed increased reference to item and task characteristics with increased age. (Author/CM)

Twenty-four college seniors summarized a 167-word text. Five days later, they completed a sentence-recognition task and described components of successful text summarization. It appeared that students who summarized efficiently also stored information in memory efficiently. (Author/CJ)

A different method of teaching students the basic addition facts is presented. If a child is able to conserve quantity, then the organized program designed to aid in the memorization of facts is possible. (MP)