Interviews conducted with a group of Lebanese children showed that they give physical rather than animistic interpretations to natural phenomena such as rain, clouds, and falling bodies. (MLH)

This article examines older adult preferences for instrumental vs. expressive learning activities. Course title selections and actual learning activity information were analyzed. Interviews with 256 Nebraskans, 55 or older, (average age was 68.11) were obtained. It was concluded that more instrumental learning opportunities must be made available…

A group of young and elderly females were tested on a paired-associate task. The results indicated that older individuals made more intrusion errors on the CVCs high in AV on the Glaze norms but low on the Archer norms. (Author)

Reports on experiments designed to explore the way the processing unit depends on the information in the component letters and the information contained in their arrangements in a familiar letter string. Hypotheses were tested by degrading the quality of individual letters and by spacing the letters irregularly. (CLK)

The question of how children represent and use comparative or partially ordered information is examined. Two experiments tested a conjecture that a common representation, a linear order, underlies the processing of all comparatives. (Author/MS)

Suggests some reasons why the exploration and description of language function is often an untidy exercise but, none-the-less very rewarding and rich in implication for English teaching. (Author/RK)

Two studies compare cognitive maps generated by first and fifth graders and college students. One study utilized a triangulation task, the other two used imagined situations. A practical methodology for such studies is introduced and a way of conceptualizing cognitive map development is suggested. (MS)

Discusses optimal teacher actions in developing inquiry skills through Flanders Category System, (created to describe and classify classroom interactions), and Blooms Taxonomy of Educational Objectives, (created to identify levels of intellectual operations). Identifies different purposes served by different level questions. (Author/DB)

Provides a critique of Paul Hirst's views on the forms of knowledge and outlines an original scheme for describing and understanding the forms that knowledge takes. (Author)

An epistemological analysis of bibliographic literature networks is set forth as a useful aid in both teaching and research. A structural-functional treatment of library reference materials is presented and the integration of classroom instruction and library research is suggested. (Editor/LBH)

The significance of a college education in developing decisionmaking via question forming is emphasized in this brief historical review. Social and political influences are cited. (LBH)

Two tasks were used to assess the capacities of 6- to 14-year-old children to interpret metaphoric statements. Results suggest certain cognitive prerequisites of mature metaphoric comprehension and help to clarify the ontogenetic relations among the abilities to produce, comprehend, and explicate the rationale of metaphoric language. (Author/SB)

Advanced organizers produced two distinct effects--subsumption of related material and abstraction of incidental concepts. (RB)