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Peer reviewedWest, L. H. T.; Fensham, P. J. – Studies in Science Education, 1974
Examines Ausubel's theory of learning as a model of the role concerning the influence of prior knowledge on how learning occurs. Research evidence for Ausubel's theory is presented and discussed. Implications of Ausubel's theory for teaching are summarized. (PEB)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Educational Research, Learning, Learning Processes
Download full textDiekhoff, George M. – 1977
This paper presents the results of three experiments conducted in connection with development of a node-link based teaching/learning strategy. In experiment 1, subjects were instructed to either define concepts selected from a unit of introductory psychology or to describe the relationships existing between pairs of concepts. The cognitive…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation, Educational Research, Learning Theories
Peer reviewedHills, P. J. – Journal of Librarianship, 1974
Discusses how library instruction can promote the basic purpose of university education--to guide the student towards becoming a self-directing individual. (Author/PF)
Descriptors: Audiovisual Aids, College Libraries, Higher Education, Learning Theories
Peer reviewedTheroux, Susan – Journal of Moral Education, 1975
By defining religious values and demonstrating their general application to moral development, a beginning attempt was made to redefine moral education in a way meaningful to modern society. (Author/RK)
Descriptors: Consultation Programs, Educational Objectives, Imitation, Interpersonal Relationship
Peer reviewedSwartz, Clifford – Physics Teacher, 1975
Outlines the intellectual developmental stages described by Piaget. Advocates that instructional strategies avoid introducing abstract concepts before students have experience with concrete phenomena. (GS)
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Editorials, Instruction, Learning Theories
Winn, William – AV Communication Review, 1975
Rejecting the cybernetic model of the learner, the author offers an open-system model based on von Bertalanffy's equation for growth of the living organism. The model produces four learning curves, not just the logarithmic curve produced by the successive approximations of the cybernetic model. (Editor)
Descriptors: Educational Research, Instructional Systems, Learning Processes, Learning Theories
Levie, Howard; Levie, Diane – AV Communication Review, 1975
In two experiments, volunteer subjects were asked to look at words and pictures, with or without an interference task. The results are interpreted to support a theory of a separate but not totally independent pictorial memory system. (Editor)
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Learning Theories, Memory, Pictorial Stimuli
Peer reviewedBlasi, A.; Hoeffel, E. C. – Human Development, 1974
Analyzes the relationship between the development of formal operations and the development of the adolescent personality, as hypothesized by Inhelder and Piaget. It is suggested that the concepts of possibility and reflectivity have a variety of meanings, and that once these meanings are examined, the logical foundation for the…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Learning Theories
Jamieson, G. H. – Programmed Learning Educ Technol, 1969
Descriptors: Age Differences, Arithmetic, Discovery Learning, Learning Theories
Abramczyk, Rudolf R.; Bousfield, Weston A. – Psychol Rep, 1969
Descriptors: Comprehension, Experiments, Learning Theories, Recall (Psychology)
Howarth, E. – Percept Mot Skills, 1969
Descriptors: Attention Span, College Students, Learning Theories, Memory
Peer reviewedO'Brien, Thomas C.; Shapiro, Bernard J. – Arithmetic Teacher, 1969
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Elementary School Mathematics, Learning, Learning Theories
Zwosta, Marianne F.; Zenhausern, Robert – Percept Mot Skills, 1969
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, College Students, Learning Theories, Males
Weaver, Wendell W. – J Reading Behav, 1969
Descriptors: Experiments, Language Patterns, Learning Theories, Measurement Techniques
Meyers, G. Douglas – 1982
An application of reader response criticism, with its abundance of ways of construing readers, permits writing teachers to identify sets of readers for students more effectively than simply exhorting them to remember their audience while writing. Composition teachers can employ the concept of "narratee" (the author's alter ego) as a…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Learning Theories, Phenomenology, Teaching Methods
