Changing a teaching method is a big step - like changing a life style. Through the process of investigating this change, this article focuses on questions that are particularly pertinent. (Author/RK)

State-dependent retention (SDR) refers to the tendency to recall something more easily when in the same state as when one first learned it. The most directly relevant evidence in favor of mood SDR has confounded matching of mood at learning and recall with matching of mood induction procedure. A study was conducted to test directly whether the use…

Duke University's Student House for Academic and Residential Experimentation (SHARE) is a living-learning environment for highly academically motivated students. Its purpose has become more complex and ambitious since its inception in 1970. (Author/PG)

Proposes that the ways in which professors test and grade largely determines what and how their students learn. (Editor/PG)

With proper staffing, residence halls can be learning laboratories for developing academic and interpersonal competence as well as social effectiveness, as those at the University of Florida illustrate. (Editor)

This article describes an immensely successful responsibility-generating teaching format implemented in the undergraduate psychology curriculum at Los Angeles City College. (Editor)

Educative style refers to the way individuals differ in their initiation, search for, absorption, synthesis, and critical appraisal of educative influences in their evnironment. (HMD)

By using the example of a community ecology project, the author examines the value of experience in education. A good educator provides a framework for examining experience that enhances it - allows experience to be assimilated, contrasted, evaluated, and integrated. (Author/PG)

A four-phase seminar (introduction, interpretation, involvement, and internationalization) was conducted by Iowa State University to inform foreign agricultural students about the transfer of agricultural technology information from the University to the farmers in Iowa. Field trips were an especially successful component of the seminar. (AG)

Teacher described a program in which students were stimulated to use their creativity in learning language and reading skills. (RK)

The program is directed specifically toward providing the basis for granting college credit for learning experiences conducted by business, industry, private organizations, and government. The author studies the program's evaluation, faculty, materials, subject matter, transferability, and site visits to view their implications and foresee…

Three classes of high school students participated in a four-day unit which focused on the dimensions of color and the psychological impact of color. (Author)

Report based on research conducted under contract N61339-67-C-0114 with the Naval Training Device Center, Orlando, Florida.