The tactile-kinesthetic approach to spelling provides a practical teaching device for use with both disabled learners and moderately poor spellers who need to learn a technical or professional vocabulary. This multisensory approach to learning teaches to the student's strengths and places emphasis on finger contact, muscle movement, saying and…

The brain sciences and education is the topic for this yearbook volume, which is divided into five parts. Part one consists of an introduction to the brain sciences that is a primer on the neuroanatomy, neurochemistry, and neurophysiology of the brain. Part two contains chapters on some of the basic processes of the brain: attention, cognition,…

Fifth-graders read lessons dealing with a geometry rule. Half of the subjects also received pre-instruction on the concepts related in the rule prior to studying the rule itself. The pre-instruction presented the concepts in either a logical order with relationships among the concepts stressed (integrative lesson) or a random order with no mention…

This issue of the bi-yearly publication contains 11 articles grouped under three headings: Developmental Cognitive/ Perceptual Studies, Development of Assessment Tools Studies, and Effective Learning Studies. The research was carried out at the Lida Lee Tall Learning Resources Center on the campus of Towson (Md.) State University. This is a…

Many teachers use grades as a weapon or a defense--not as the powerful learning tool they can be. A grading system in which students write papers over and over until they are fully acceptable, and in which they earn checkmarks for each piece of work accepted, serves as a powerful motivator. The checkmark system adheres to six primary learning…

Teachers of writing can be compared to tourists in that they often deal only with the superficial aspects of student writing. Some teachers approach written themes carrying correction symbols as gadgets; others dissect student writing through the use of computer terminals and t-units. Still others view the writer romantically as someone with…

A total of 150 undergraduate students randomly assigned to five experimental groups studied ten paragraphs with questions interspersed at different locations in the text. Performance on incidental items was significantly lower (p < .05) in the question before (QB) than in the question after (QA), question before and after (QBA), and the…

Twenty good spellers and 20 poor spellers at each grade level from two to five participated in a study of morphological and orthographic spelling pattern abstraction. Subjects completed a multiple choice test of nonsense words, a multiple choice test of real words, and a dictation test of nonsense words. Both groups showed developmental trends in…

One of the most typical ways in which people learn is by inferring general rules from examples. In recent years, significant progress has been made toward understanding how learning from examples can occur, determining when it does occur, and identifying conditions that promote it. This paper reviews these results and then suggests a program of…

This study investigated verbal learning when separate tasks were presented simultaneously, with variations in the number of tasks specified to be learned and in the number of tasks presented. Results indicated that the effect of certain independent variables was similar to the effect found when tasks were learned singly. The spacing effect, for…

Resulting from a special study institute sponsored by the Bureau of Education for the Handicapped, the workshop coordinator's kit (fourth in a series of inservice teacher training materials) focuses on the relation between the learner's approach to an instructional problem and the design of the instructional experience. Outlined are objectives,…

The purpose of this study was to investigate school board policies concerning field trips in all cities of the United States of 100,000 or more population. (Author/RK)

The role of imagery is assessed in verbal concept identification and evidence is found that some concepts can be coded as images. (Author/AM)

Picture song books can be used to enhance language arts skills. (JH)