Describes a study that demonstrated that written explanations of responses to formal-concept test items can be used to identify formal and concrete operational thinkers. A high percentage of the students sampled were unable to respond to formal-concept test items. (EB)

Presents part of a new series aimed at providing exploratory activities for preschool children as they seek to become acquainted with the world in which they live. (Author/EB)

Investigates the convergence of three measures on a representation of cognitive structure and examines the correspondence between these representations and the representation of subject matter structure. (Author/DEP)

In an experiment designed to explore the interaction of individual differences with question pacing in learning from written materials, 93 subjects were administered aptitude tests representing verbal comprehension and associative memory abilities. Posttest analysis of relevant and incidential retention showed that relevant retention increased…

The principal goal of history teaching is to train students to become capable of doing new things, creating, discovering, and gathering evidence as "scientifically" as possible. (Author/ND)

The cognitive operations that predispose a learner to perceive and approach a situation in a given way define his mental set. A survey of the research on problem solving indicates that an instructor should encourage students to vary strategies in searching for solutions to problems. (NHM)

A preschool child's participation in group singing systematically increased after individual training sessions were conducted outdoors during regular recess. The experimental design was a controlled individual analysis, multiple baseline design across different songs. (Author/ED)

Research supported by the U.S. Office of Economic Opportunity grant 1492.

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