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Fremont, Herbert – Mathematics Teacher, 1974
Descriptors: Discovery Learning, Individualized Instruction, Instruction, Learning
Charbonneau, Manon P. – Independent School Bulletin, 1973
If teachers would only step back and watch and listen to children as they learn, even as they play games and work together making things, they could begin to see a pattern of thought emerging that is unique for each child. (Author)
Descriptors: Discovery Learning, Elementary School Teachers, Learning Experience, Learning Processes

Masalski, William J. – Mathematics Teacher, 1974
Descriptors: Discovery Learning, Experiential Learning, Geometric Concepts, Laboratory Procedures

D'Amour, Gene – Educational Forum, 1973
Author introduces distinctions that occur between the inductive and deductive approaches to mathematical analysis thereby helping teachers, interested in innovative teaching methods, to understand more clearly the problems they are up against. (Author/RK)
Descriptors: Deduction, Discovery Learning, Induction, Instructional Innovation

Weininger, Otto – International Journal of Early Childhood, 1972
For forty years, the nursery school movement has emphasized play as part of the socialization process, but in the past few years, much research has been aimed at the question of stimulating cognitive development in the preschool years, especially for culturally deprived children. (Author/CB)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Creative Development, Disadvantaged Youth, Discovery Learning

Egan, Dennis E.; Greeno, James G. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1973
Several skills important to successful learning by discovery were found to be less essential to successful learning by rule. Results also supported the hypothesis that the outcome of discovery is the structural integration of previously known concepts, while the outcome of rule learning is the addition of new structure. (Authors)
Descriptors: Aptitude, Concept Teaching, Data Analysis, Discovery Learning
McKeon, Jacquelyn; Squire, Patricia – Instructor, 1973
Article describes a student project of growing a beautiful flower garden thus giving students a greater awareness of ecology. (RK)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Discovery Learning, Ecology, Elementary School Students

Boblick, John M. – Science Education, 1972
Although students who used the Physical Science Study Committee experiments improved in their understanding of the conservation of momentum, greater gains were made by those who used a computer simulation of one dimensional elastic collisions in a vacuum. (AL)
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Discovery Learning, Instruction, Kinetics
Sasser, Charles W. – American School Board Journal, 1972
Descriptors: Discovery Learning, Open Education, Teacher Education, Teacher Effectiveness
Miezitis, Solveiga; and others – Orbit, 1970
Descriptors: Discovery Learning, Dropout Prevention, Dropout Research, Junior High School Students
Stansfield, David – Orbit (Preliminary Issue), 1969
Descriptors: Discovery Learning, Individualized Instruction, Instructional Materials, Multimedia Instruction

Hervey, Margaret A.; Litwiller, Bonnie H. – Arithmetic Teacher, 1972
Descriptors: Addition, Arithmetic, Discovery Learning, Elementary School Mathematics

Oliver, Charlene – Arithmetic Teacher, 1972
Descriptors: Arithmetic, Discovery Learning, Division, Elementary School Mathematics

Brown, Stephen I. – Educational Theory, 1971
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation, Creative Thinking, Discovery Learning

Balk, G. D. – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 1971
Descriptors: Algebra, Discovery Learning, Geometry, Induction