In experiments on individual differences in learning, knowledge prerequisites and learning strategies have been shown to be important factors. The author questions whether learning optimization should rely on direct measures from outside the learner or should elucidate and strengthen the individual's capacity for learning decisions. He proposes to…

Results are reported which show that the facilitating effect of recall on recognition is quite substantial. (AM)

The development of the ability to use taxonomic, phonemic and sense impression categories as dimensions of encoding was investigated using third and fifth graders and college students. (ED)

Article illustrates the types of activities which may occur in a learning package oriented curriculum. (Author)

Author focused on the development of skills and the knowledge it took to become skilled in relation to goals, modes of learning, instructional media, and the assessment of outcomes. (Author/RK)

This study investigated the relationship between students' prior learning (knowledge in a content area) and their level of achievement on criterial tests measuring different educational objectives when receiving instruction via programmed booklets complemented by visuals possessing varying degrees of realistic detail. (Author/RK)

Many conservation studies have been performed using time consuming individual testing. The sequential studies reported in this paper describe the development of a group film test of conservation. (Author)

Article suggests that if principles of learning are applied to teaching college faculty about instructional development, significant learning and change may occur where it has not in the past. (HB)

Whereas Martin (1973) examined item effects for individual subjects as indicators of their idiosyncratic organization of the middle of a lengthy, constant sequence of unrelated nouns, the present study examined the constancy of item effects across groups of subjects learning a short list of moderately difficult CVCs. (Author/RK)

Research supported in part by a grant from the University Research Board, University of Illinois, and in part by Grant OEG-1-070028-5239 from the U.S. Office of Education, Bureau of Research.

Research based upon a Ph.D. dissertation submitted to the Graduate School, University of Pittsburgh, and supported in part by U.S. Public Health Service grant MH-1290 and by the New York State Research Foundation.