Topics in this annotated bibliography on audiovisual instruction include the history of instructional technology, teacher-training, equipment operation, administration of media programs, production of instructional materials, language laboratories, instructional television, programed instruction, communication theory, learning theory, and…

This paper outlines problems which are central to the psychological foundations of mathematics. Discussed are the relations that exist between psychological and classical foundations of mathematics. It is shown how the inadequacies of current learning theories which account for complex mathematics learning may be made explicit for appropriate…

Instructional design, course planning, and training program administration are the main aspects treated in this annotated bibliography. Most articles included were published between January 1960 and March 1968. The 447 abstracts appear under the main headings of: learning theory applied to instruction, planning, course management, and program…

The process of communication is defined here with special reference to problems likely to face the clergyman. Communication is discussed both as an abstract principle and as an applied science. The theological view of communication is put forward. The learning process is viewed from the vantage point of various learning theories: conditioned…

This book is a collection of essays on mastery learning, which is defined as an instructional philosophy that asserts that under appropriate instructional conditions virtually all, rather than some, students can learn most of what they are taught. The articles in this book are based on a symposium. Social scientists were contacted and asked to…

Six lectures are presented in this report of the Symposium on Research and Reform in Teacher Education. The lectures are entitled (a) "Teacher Education--Research and Change"; (b) "Theories of Learning and Teacher Education"; (c) "Is Teacher Training Really Any Use?"; (d) "From Studying Education to Teaching a Class: Problems of Transition"; (e)…

The primary objective of this study was to determine the existence of a relationship between free-recall learning and breadth of categorization, an independent measure of conceptual organization. The relationship between breadth of categorization and more conventional measures of organization was also investigated. Two free-recall tasks…

The study was designed to describe the basis of a potential mathematics learning theory founded on the relationship between language and thinking, to relate the subjects' overt verbalization and performance after they had been taught a mathematical structure, to relate overt verbalization and the number of discovered rules, and to examine the…

Subjects in an independent groups free learning experiment recalled list of low- or high-arousal words, matched for imagery and frequency and exposed randomly for 3 seconds and 9 seconds. Extrapolating neural consolidation theory to previous work on serial position effects led to the predictions that (1) arousal facilitates primacy; (2) arousal…

The purpose of this study was to develop and evaluate a curriculum using Scandura's algorithmic approach to characterize the knowledge inherent in a text. Two one-semester curricula were compared: a discrete characterization (D) in which each class of behaviors was accounted for separately, one rule for each behavior; and a higher order…

Any human communication has intrinsic objectives, to reach maximum communication efficiency and dependability. Because of "equivocation" and "noise," these absolute maximums are unobtainable; only relative maximums are possible. Based on Shannon's information theory principles, various information terms and different forms of "redundancy" are…

Research reported deals with identifying stages in attaining a concept of function by students, eleven through fourteen years of age, of above average ability, taking the experimental mathematics program of the Secondary School Mathematics Curriculum Improvement Study. In order to obtain a hierarchy of the learning stages, both a written test and…

This study analyzes the impact on earnings of human-capital obsolescence, human-capital deterioration, unstructured on-the-job learning, and structured on-the-job learning. The study defines these four concepts, discusses their determinants, and analyzes the market mechanics by which each influences earning rates. A model is developed and adapted…

A technique for investigating and quantifying problem solving mediating processes was developed; the question of whether this technique could be used to detect different approaches to problem solving among groups of subjects when measured over a time interval was studied. Results showed that processing modes differed as to professional interest…

School size, age and sex of students as related to scores on the six Piagetian Developmental Thought Processes Tasks were investigated. Five hundred seventy-four students from seventh through twelfth grades were randomly selected from 25 different schools classified as small, medium, or large. Data were treated through factorial analysis of…