Explains a three-dimensional conceptual model designed to help outdoor educators plan and evaluate programs that provide primary and reflective experiences in, about, and for the outdoors and that bring about positive growth in the cognitive, affective, and psychomotor domains of learning. (JHZ)

Describes an inexpensive program using invertebrates as subjects in conditioning demonstrations and experiments. Provides a bibliography of reviews about invertebrate learning in addition to information on obtaining required apparatus and invertebrates.

Discusses how language teacher trainees can be brought to appreciate the need for understanding language learning theories and for integrating those theories into classroom practice. Suggests that this can be done by a fully integrated curriculum involving a team teaching approach so that theory is seen to arise out of practice. (SED)

Presents annotations of materials representing the range of current cross-disciplinary theories and research connecting speaking and writing. Topics range from cognitive psychology, linguistics, and rhetoric to learning theory. (HTH)

This article evaluates five causal model of educational productivity applied to learning science in a sample of 882 fifth through eighth graders. Each model explores the relationship between achievement and a combination of eight constructs: home environment, peer group, media, ability, social environment, time on task, motivation, and…

Examines the evidence that supports using the technique of repeated readings to increase the reading fluency of students with reading difficulties. (HOD)

Reports on a study in which college students wrote compositions that elicited their technical knowledge of three topics, then completed a questionnaire that assessed which of four information sources had contributed to their knowledge of the topics--formal education, mass media, social interaction, and direct experience. (FL)

A bibliography focusing on recent theoretical and pedagogical research on socio- and psycholinguistic factors in second language reading development includes primarily articles on English as a second language and some citations on other modern languages. (MSE)

Examines the relationship that might exist between knowledge structure and learning and teaching styles. Discussion includes the Psycho-Epistemic Profile, which measures the process of knowing, and a study of relationships between teachers' and students' psycho-epistemic styles and preferred subject matter, and differences between psycho-epistemic…

Case study results of a cooperative education program are presented. Conclusions drawn from this study indicate student expectations and perceptions of the co-op experience are critical to the experiential learning process. The program design seems more appropriate for substantiating academic credit than for assuring student learning. (DWH)

The development of mastery learning theory is traced as a teaching-learning strategy and its application in five steps is discussed. Practical classroom concerns are considered and the implications for the teacher's changing roles are examined. (CL)

Argues that the distinction reading researchers make between good and poor reading is an artifact of the way researchers define and verify statements about good and poor reading. (HOD)

Data and models about recognition and recall of words and nonwords are unified using a real-time network processing theory. Adaptive resonance theory arose from an analysis of how a language system self-organizes in real time in response to its complex input environment. (Author/LMO)

Recommends using Bloom's Taxonomy of Educational Objectives as an aid to involve students in their writing and to overcome stilted diction while discovering that writing is a process. (CRH)

Argues that the value of humor in a reading/language arts program may not be understood completely and may often be overlooked. Suggests that the use of humor is supportable by many learning theories and that it has probable affective and cognitive benefits. (FL)