Notes that before making claims for the large impact attributed to quantity of schooling--claims that are aimed at influencing policy decisions--its effects should be examined in a wide variety of school settings, with attention to individual student differences and to the importance of cumulative effects. (Author/AM)

Investigated with 66 elementary children (all enrolled in articulation therapy) was the assumption that children who are in the process of developing automatization of correct production. (Author/SBH)

An attempt was made to identify comparable subjective subsequences in the serial learning of a prose passage and to examine the relationship of such organizational encodings to the variable of structural importance. Results of serial learning and free recall indicated learners associatively organized individual prose subunits into subjective…

Levels of processing were manipulated as a function of acquisition task and type of recognition test in three experiments. Experiment I showed semantic acquisition to be superior to rhyme acquisition given a standard recognition test, whereas rhyme acquisition was superior given a rhyming recognition test. Results are interpreted and discussed.…

This edited collection of occasional papers and reports by Harvard's director of the Bureau of Study Counsel addresses questions of student learning and intellectual development, the role of the faculty and advisory agencies in encouraging students' intellectual growth, and the nature of advising and counselling. (Author/LBH)

Discusses the maturational, behaviorist and cognitive or psycholinguistic views of reading readiness. Describes a teaching strategy of "assisted reading," derived from the cognitive, psycholinguistic view. (BF)

Hospitalized brain-damaged patients were Ss in a study designed to evaluate the effectiveness of a treatment technique used with contingent reinforcement to facilitate acquisition and retention of environmentally relevant information. (Editor)

Explores the functions of the left and right hemispheres and how they relate to aspects of our work in music education. (Editor)

Evaluated with eight mildly retarded young adults and eight university students was the effect of contextual cues on reaction time. (Author/DB)

Presents a framework for analyzing academic tasks based on task conceptions formulated in cognitive psychology and research on classroom interaction. Using this framework, an analysis of a single task in a high school English class is presented. Issues raised by the study are addressed. (CJH)

Based on three areas of research (memory, selective attention, and metacognition), three strategy training interventions with learning disabled children are described: Lloyd's academic strategy training, Torgeson's strategy training, and Deshler's learning strategies model. Individual approaches may be appropriate only for selected subgroups of…

Identifies previous metaphors for memory, such as Aristotle's "wax tablet" and the numerous storage and retrieval metaphors, and how storage metaphors are hampering reading research. (JC)

A study of Nigerian bilingual (Yoruba and English) students supported other research indicating that primary education in the child's mother tongue is most effective for the learning process. An experimental group taught and tested in a structured bilingual medium performed significantly better than one taught and tested in English. (Author/GC)

Students from a high school psychology class were subjects in a study of the effect of tutorials versus study time on student performance. Tutoring produced content knowledge for tutors who worked with partners. (LMO)

Identifies mediating factors between the viewing of violent media and aggressive behavior. Discusses the role of cognitive and emotional arousal processes, and the interplay among these factors and attitudes toward aggression. Describes the effects of media exposure on arousal, emotional desensitization, and the excitement of the observer's…