The authors present eight steps for presenting a successful lecture to adult learners: (1) set learning objectives, (2) capture attention, (3) provide learning guidelines, (4) explain clearly, (5) vary presentation, (6) increase participation, (7) provide a summary, and (8) assess the lecture. (CH)

This article is an essay on the importance of attention as a personal trait. Offers a definition of attention, reviews symptoms of inattention, and identifies the categories of objects which typically hold a person's attention. (JDH)

Tests the hypothesis that habituation of attention to irrelevant information can account for within-task improvement in selective attention--that children who are preexposed to stimuli that will later be irrelevant in a speeded classification task will experience less interference than children not given the opportunity to habituate. (HOD)

The article reviews issues in classification and remediation approaches for students with reading disabilities. The inclusive nature of the specific reading disability syndrome is noted as are difficulties surrounding classification attempts. Remedial implications are examined and guidelines offered regarding techniques for attention control,…

Provides a short summary of the research being done on the subject of drug therapy with children having learning disabilities, pointing out the advantages and the dangers in such therapy. (RW)

Recommends instruction in rapid reading fo high school and college students and asserts that flexibility of speed and reasoning provide the foundation for effective rapid reading. Describes the components of rapid reading as orientation, selection, clarification, arrangement, review, and study. (RW)

Emphasizes the necessity of teaching disadvantaged students to organize and classify material and to attend to detail. It presents methods of alerting students to these things and to constructions found in literary language. Intelligent, creative reading, not speed, is the ultimate goal. Bibliography. (RW)

Students were ranked in ability to anticipate the arrival of a relatively fast moving stimulus at a certain point along a trackway and compared with "narrow attentional focus," a measure of attentional style. An association between an individual's field independence and performance on an anticipation task was shown. (Author/CM)

Humor in the classroom can be effective in maintaining student attention, providing mnemonic examples, and aiding the relationship between teachers and students. (HOD)

Conventional classroom controls are not working well for teachers today. The answer: low-profile controls, which focus student attention directly on lesson content without unnecessary distractions. (Author)

Compared various cognitive treatment approaches for ameliorating the difficulties of hyperactive children on tasks requiring sustained vigilance and accuracy. Differential training techniques comparing training in attention to inhibitory control indicated that a combination of attentional and inhibitory control strategies was most efficacious in…

Cites studies showing that impulsive children can perform more reflectively with respect to response time and/or accuracy if exposed to reflective models, self-verbalization strategies, increased concern over performance accuracy, and training in attention deployment, delay of response and visual discrimination. (BF/JH)

In order to determine the relative effectiveness of verbal self-instructions and training to delay before responding in modifying an impulsive cognitive style, 15 impulsive emotionally disturbed boys were assigned to one of three groups. (Author)