Schema theory, an area of educational research within perceptual learning theory, is divided into five major subtopics: (1) explanation, development, and background; (2) theoretical approaches; (3) pattern classification; (4) pattern quantification; and (5) quantified pattern feature approach (which attempts to combine classification and…

Research findings concerning some of the basic features of the learning process are discussed, together with their practical applications to the training process. The article proposes a three-stage framework for understanding the learning process: attract attention, maintain attention, and facilitate effective coding and storing of new material.…

This article supports the learning theory and intellectual development model of Jean Piaget as a theory base for science education. (Author/MK)

Reviewing research relating mathematical achievement to gender, the authors argue that remedies for math anxiety need to be evaluated and new techniques devised that are most closely linked to theories of learning. They maintain that proper techniques can be effective in reversing female underachievement and preventing math avoidance. (Author/SK)

Surveys major learning theories and their application to teaching, concluding that lecturing does not require students to conceptualize in the way open discussion does. Outlines literature teaching goals that are clarified by a cognitive perspective. (MKM)

Finds a direct relationship between overinclusion and field dependence. Sees sex differences in "Epstein's Overinclusion Test." Notes that a direct relation exists between two tests of retardedness and both overinclusion and field dependence, suggesting that these two concepts may be part of a larger, more comprehensive construct. (RL)

The present study is an attempt to apply a paradigm to the shift of verbal behavior before and after the age of seven in order to see if linguistic contexts affect verbal behavior differentially before seven or after seven. (Author/CFM)

The implications of a few popular beliefs that teachers use to guide their mathematics instruction are examined and some useful alternatives to these beliefs discussed. (MP)

It is argued that a young child's perceptual skills form the basis for all future conceptual and mathematical learning. An experiment supports the argument. (MP)

Identifies problems encountered in educational evaluation--particularly in areas of curriculum evaluation and assessment of student achievement. Explains how idiographic methods (derived from interpretative disciplines like history which center on intensive study of the individual) can help educators evaluate student learning. (DB)

Various aspects of independent learning are explored in an attempt to identify some salient components of independent learning. Training teachers in this strategy should facilitate a favorable pupil attitude toward learning and thought processes such as fluency, divergency, analysis, synthesis, etc., which are considered important educational…

Reports the results of an experiment designed to identify and define learning behaviors characteristic of successful adult students in an intensive language program. Findings are interpreted in terms of an information processing model. (AM)

Recent research in the area of individual differences in learning and memory is reviewed from a cognitive perspective. Using the two-state model of memory as a framework, individual variations in attentional, short-term store, and long-term store processes are discussed. (Editor)

From a review of the literature on modeling processes, observational learning, social learning theory, and vicarious concept learning by young children, the author draws guidelines for the teaching of abstractions to preschoolers. (SJL)

Discusses the Lozanov Method of teaching foreign languages developed by Lozanov in Bulgaria. This method (also known as Suggestopedia) uses various techniques such as physical relaxation exercises, mental concentration, classical music, and ego-enhancing suggestions. (CFM)