The iconic-memory processing of unfamiliar stimuli by 11 mentally retarded males (mean age 22 years) was undertaken employing a visually cued partial-report procedure and a visual masking procedure. (Author/CL)

Because it offers a means for examining the change in perception of key concepts as a result of learning, the similarity judgment task can be used to evaluate instruction effectiveness. Results of this study indicated graduate students had successfully employed the similarity judgment task and had established effectiveness of similarity judgment…

Modern principles of color applied to schools will greatly improve the scholastic performance of students. (Author/MLF)

Two experiments, consisting of eight set operation tasks, were conducted to examine rule-learning in children. Subjects were 179 boys ranging in age from 7.9 to 15.4 years. (MP)

Skemp's new model of understanding in learning is described and explained. (MK)

A review of recent ERIC materials concerned with textbooks, prose learning, and learning strategies, to determine factors that contribute to learning from textbooks. (DD)

Discusses the needs of gifted students and their teachers as well as the characteristics of a good program for gifted students. (MLF)

The effects of the outcomes "right" and "wrong" upon subsequent correct responding in paired-associate learning have recently been interpreted as a function of subject's memory of previous responses and their outcomes. Tests that interpretation in two experiments of recall procedures. (Editor/RK)

It is pointed out that interpretation of learning set data will be easier and more informative if one uses a "first-order" problem, that is, one which can be solved on the first trial at the end of training. (Editor)

In his comment, Black (AA 526 155) argued that Maier and Seligman (EJ 138 911) incorrectly interpreted competing motor response explanations of the learned helplessness effect. Here, it is argued that no article that has proposed a competing motor response explanation of the learned helplessness effect has alluded to a mechanism similar to the one…

Educators can either decry the changing brain and the media-saturated culture or adapt schools to accommodate these changes. New cognitive research affirms some time-honored practices, but is opening up new possibilities concerning the development of young brains; the role of emotions in learning; and the importance of connections to past…

Observations of and discussions with four Scottish farmers showed that learning processes were more effective than classic planning processes in dealing with change in farm management. Their stages of learning resembled stages of the strategic planning process. (SK)

Formulates rules for adapting the appropriate amount of instruction to learning needs in computerized adaptive instructional systems. The framework is derived from Bayesian decision theory and the procedures are demonstrated for the problem of determining the optimal number of interrogatory examples for concept learning in the Minnesota Adaptive…

Transformation theory states that people learn through frames of reference that may be transformed by critical reflection. If literacy involves meaning making, literacy learning is a transformative process and communicative competence is the goal of literacy education. (SK)