Examples are given illustrating a facet of early learning involving insights into abstract thinking. Several learning theories examined fail to account for this phenomenon. (MP)

College students learned implicitly the underlying structure of an artificial language by memorizing a set of representative examples. The form and structure of their knowledge was evaluated and analyzed by: (1) solving anagrams; (2) determining well-formedness of novel letter strings; and (3) providing detailed introspective reports. (Author/MV)

Examines critically the most complete theory of the encoding processes involved in learning (Craik & Lockhart, 1972; Craik, 1973; Craik & Tulving, 1975), and puts forward some suggestions about the processes involved in retrieval. (Author)

Basic principles of open education as they have developed over the past ten years are examined, and aspects of advocacy are identified which are considered ultimately unproductive and detrimental to the development of sound, acceptable classroom practice. (Author/MJB)

Children listened to sentences under two instructional sets (imagery or repetition) and answered multiple choice alternatives--either identical or similar in meaning to correct information in the sentences; and including or not including previously presented irrelevant information. The sources of interference predicted from recognition memory…

Describes steps involved in the construction of a 15-item test to measure formal reasoning in junior and senior high school students. From analysis, the author concludes that the test has face, convergent, and factorial validities. (CP)

A pretest-posttest research design was used with 104 first-grade children to determine if discrimination and classifactory activities would affect transition from preoperational to concrete stages. Findings showed the experimental group exhibited significantly greater transition than did the control group. (CP)

Describes a highly structured mental health clinic program designed to teach parents methods of childrearing derived from social learning theory. The program focused on principles of child development and behavior appropriate to specific problems, and enabled parents to engage in several behavior change projects with their children. (BR)

Analyzes the process of learning--both intentional and non-intentional--and concludes that the view that learning is learning only if it is formal and intentional is false. (RK)

The attention hypothesis of Zeaman and House is examined through a systematic, computer-simulation analysis of the parameter interactions found in One-Look model. (Author/SB)

Reviews laws, conditions, and categories of learning and educational theory-building. (SL)

Reviews Piagetian concepts, the identification of student cognitive level of development, and chemistry instruction. (SL)

Discusses instructor considerations to be made concerning student cognitive development in preparing and teaching introductory chemistry. (SL)

Major barriers to sociology curriculum change are: (1) the utilitarian character of university departments, (2) confusion about educational goals, and (3) lack of a clearly articulated learning theory. Strategies for curriculum improvement should be based upon learning theory, skill development, career goals, and improving a student's knowledge…

This research used two components of the suggestive-accelerative learning method, Mind Calming and Early Pleasant Learning Recall, to teach twelve rare English words to 64 fifth and sixth graders. Available from: Society for Suggestive-Accelerative Learning and Teaching, 2740 Richmond Avenue, Des Moines, Iowa 50319. (CFM)