A survey was conducted of primary schools and the communities they serve in the two anglophone provinces of Cameroon in 1974/75, as part of a program of research preceding curricular reform in that country. (Editor)

This study examines three critical aspects of the school-visitation programs of art museums in the United States and Europe: the prevalence of volunteer guides and how museum personnel are training them, the ways various museums are involving classroom teachers in the school-visitation programs, and how these programs are evaluated. (Author/RK)

A mathematical model based upon signal detection theory is developed that characterizes social influences upon judgments of a stimulus. A social influence cue and the physical aspects of the stimulus were assumed to have independent effects upon performance. (Editor)

The author recommends the use of flow charting to help students understand the manipulation of algebraic formulae. He identifies some problems with flow charts and suggests an alternative method of constructing flow diagrams. (SD)

This paper examines the practical results of the double aspect of our constitutionally guaranteed freedom of education and focuses on some hidden factors known to have a constraining effect on educational progress and needed reforms. (Author/RK)

These experiments are addressed specifically to the question of whether transituational transfer of immunizing and therapeutic effects will occur when these procedures involve responses and settings which are very different from those used in final testing. (Author/RK)

This research studied the relation between mastery of the words "and" and "or" and performance on the conjunctive and disjunctive tasks. A definition test was used to measure level of mastery of the linguistic terms and a traditional logical test to measure logical task performance. Results are related with ability to solve logical tasks.…

The hypothesis that increased variety of rules aids subsequent transfer of learning has previously been affirmed (Bourne, 1970; Bourne and Guy, 1968). This research expands that finding to show that in addition to variety, the sequence of rules also affects transfer of learning. (Author/RK)

One effective way of integrating the real world of winter into classroom learning is to plan a web or non-linear approach to unit development. In a practical example involving two grade five classes, students and their teacher investigate ideas on ways and topics to study winter. (Author/RK)

Although descriptive and etiological approaches to psychopathology have made notable advances, they seem to have reached a plateau. After reviewing the six approaches to etiology that now preempt the field--ecological, developmental, learning, genetic, internal environment, and neurophysiological models--a second-order model, vulnerability, is…

Examines the benefits of frequent testing, some recent variations of frequent testing, and attempts to extract whatever generalizations appear to emerge from the evidence provided by the review of the studies. (Author/RK)

It has been demonstrated that instructions to learn have no effect on immediate recall in the incidental learning paradigm used by Jenkins (1974). This research further investigated this finding by factorially manipulating recall instructions (incidental vs. intentional learning), presentation rate of materials, retention interval, and type of…

Three experiments were conducted to evaluate the P300 component of the human evoked response as an index of bisensory information processing. Data shows that the P300 promises to be a valuable tool for assessing brain processes during complex decision making. (Editor/RK)

Clarifies several ambiguities concerning the manner in which persons combine behavioral information and information about others' opinions to infer the beliefs held by themselves and others. (Author/RK)