A discussion of how quiz questions can be very effective teachers. They may condition students to study in particular ways, to attend to some types of information and ignore others, and they may determine how the student processes information. (Author)

Programed units of instruction designed with four different sequences of characterizations and exemplifications of disjunctive concepts were given to preservice elementary school teachers. Students were tested on three levels of concept attainment, with differences between strategies resulting, as one moves through the levels of cognitive…

Explores factors that influence readability and a reader's ability to process information. (TO)

Presents a multivariate change model in which changes in ability factor scores (cognitive structure) and factor loadings (task structure) provide the theoretical underpinnings for the transfer process. (RJ)

This study is designed to investigate the effects of cue discriminability on discriminative performance. (Author)

Language teachers continue to seek means to improve the ease and effectiveness of language learning, through modifications in their ways of teaching. (Author)

Results of this study help to account for some of the disparity between Genevan and non-Genevan data and suggest the need for caution in inferring processes leading to conservation from the types of reason given. (Author/CB)

Data were interpreted as suggesting that incidental learning may not be cumulative over trials, but rather, may be due to memory of the last trial. (Author)

Author considers two recent trends in education, the first is that education must become more broadly humanizing and values must be taught in the schools, the second is that our instructional procedures must become far more objective in order to be effective. (Author/RK)

Article describes the program and facilities utilizing the latest theories in educational media at The Northeast Regional Media Center for the Deaf and the Boston School for the Deaf, Boston, Massachusetts. (HB)

This study tested the effectiveness of incentive conditions across socioeconomic class levels in a school situation. The results suggest that material incentives generally are more effective than social incentives and no feedback in the classroom learning of fourth graders. (Author)

Critique of Crothers and Suppes' Experiments in Second Language Learning,'' New York: Academic Press, 1967. Revised version of lecture presented to the Applied Linguistics section of the Modern Language Association, New York, New York, December 1970. (RS)