Discusses Jean Piaget's information-processing model of cognitive development. (FL)

Investigates the type of individual who works and learns most effectively in a group setting. Results indicate that people who fit into Robert Bales' Upward-Positive-Forward personality type perceive the group and group activities to be more effective than do other personality types. (Author)

The authors challenge some of the conclusions reached about Piaget by Brian Rotman in his book. (MK)

The paper presents a selective review of current alternative conceptualizations of learning disabilities and reading disability. (Author)

Presents a single integrated set of procedures for both analysis and design of instruction according to the Elaboration Theory. (JEG)

Three experiments investigated factors influencing the integration of facts acquired from texts. Subjects encountered related facts in the context of relatively long, meaningful texts, a single text, or in two separate texts. Results indicate that integration can occur in both cases. (SW)

Identifies and discusses a change in the theoretical bases of contemporary psychologists' views of infant development: the replacement of the constructs of energy, drive, and motive with cognitive constructs. (CM)

Skemp's new model of understanding in learning is described and explained. (MK)

The project evaluates an instructional sequence based on an application of Gagne's model of cumulative learning to a particular social science concept. Gagne's model is described briefly before the evaluation design is outlined. (Author/RC)

It is pointed out that interpretation of learning set data will be easier and more informative if one uses a "first-order" problem, that is, one which can be solved on the first trial at the end of training. (Editor)

Suggests that the concept of creativity has been used in an imprecise manner in education. Reviews theories of creativity in humanistic psychology, experimental psychology, and the cognitive psychological works of Piaget and Vygotsky. Argues that educators have not always distinguished between these differing views of creativity. (41 citations)…

The purpose of this article is to trace the antecedents, origins, and the evolution of the Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT). Topics include the nature of technology, the emergence of educational technology, early theoretical conceptions, visual education, the Department of Visual Instruction, communications and…

The concept of reflection arises from the Enlightenment view that portrays emotion and the body as unreliable and dangerous, and reason, emotional detachment, and physical distance as preeminent. This reproduces power differentials of gender, class, and race. (SK)

Transformation theory states that people learn through frames of reference that may be transformed by critical reflection. If literacy involves meaning making, literacy learning is a transformative process and communicative competence is the goal of literacy education. (SK)

Discusses why experts from different areas of the learning sciences conclude that higher education's primary goals--enhancing long-term retention and the transfer of knowledge--depend on educators applying tested principles drawn from what is now known about human learning. Describes some of these principles. (EV)