The relationship between learning, development and ability factors is considered. (ST)

A brief review of research on the neurophysiology and biochemistry of learning. (AK)

Describes the goal of schooling as using whatever materials are at hand to facilitate the development of each person's epistemological skills. (Author)

Combines biological, biochemical, and psychological data toward the construction of a bio-psychological theory of behavior. Postulates that the presence of periodic stimuli in the environment have induced, through natural selection, the appearance of organisms capable of exploiting the environment by utilizing information in periodic stimuli. The…

The article demonstrates practical and theoretical support of author's circular model of behavior. This model implies that if you change behavior you will change opinion. It directly relates to teaching children in the classroom through actual experience, as opposed to lectures. (Author/RR)

A survey was conducted of 110 kindergarten through twelfth grade teachers to determine their own beliefs as to how learning best occurs in the classroom. It was found that most of the teachers whose ideas were progressive were not held in high esteem by their principals. (CK)

Grade six students were taught Newton's Second Law of Motion by a linear program, a lecture, or a video-taped lecture, with three different response modes: written responses to all questions, to one-third of the questions, or to no questions. There was no significant difference between teaching method, but the higher the overt response rate, the…

A review of Studies in Cognitive Development: Essays in Honor of Jean Piaget (Oxford Univ. Press, 1969) by David Elkind and John H. Flarell (Eds). (DS)