The intensity of information processing engendered in different phases of standard memory tasks was examined in six experiments. Processing intensity was conceptualized as system capacity consumed, and was measured via a divided-attention procedure in which subjects performed a memory task and a simple reaction-time (RT) task concurrently. The…

This product development report is one of 21 reports, sponsored by the U.S. Office of Education, dealing with the developmental history of a recent educational product. This report deals with Facilitating Inquiry in the Classroom, a teacher training program, focusing on instructional skills needed to stimulate and sustain students in self-directed…

A paired-associate learning task, with labeled pictures as stimuli and responses, was administered to a sample of fourth and fifth grade children. Sentence and imagery mediators which linked the stimulus and response terms were either provided by the experimenter or generated by the children themselves under instructions from the experimenter.…

The multivariate effect of task sequence, memory support, and state anxiety was investigated using a nonverbal concept-acquisition task. Ninety-six Indian college students were randomly assigned to 4 treatment conditions resulting from the task sequence: easy-to-hard, memory support, and nonmemory support. Subjects receiving the easy-to-hard…

This research deals with optimizing the instructional process. The approach adopted was to limit consideration to simple learning tasks for which adequate mathematical models could be developed. Optimal or suitable suboptimal instructional strategies were developed for the models. The basic idea was to solve for strategies that either maximize the…

THIS STUDY CONSISTED OF A SERIES OF EXPERIMENTS DESIGNED TO YIELD DATA ON THE PARAMETERS OF LEARNING IN THESE SITUATIONS--(1) THE QUANTITY OF MATERIAL TO BE LEARNED WAS GREATER THAN USUAL, AND (2) THE SCHEDULING OF LEARNING, REVIEW TRIALS, AND THE AMOUNTS OF MATERIAL PRESENTED WERE VARIED WITHIN A DESIGN JUDGED TO APPROACH OPTIMAL SCHEDULING IN…

This book provides over 100 ideas and activities developed and tested by teachers to help students become independent learners. Specific strategies are suggested that may aid students in defining problems, planning individual studies, finding information, and recording, reporting, and evaluating results. The six chapters are "Independent…

More teachers are discovering a colorful interest-catching classroom aid that touches just about every conceivable subject--postage stamps. (Editor)

Discusses the effects of informative message organization on listener learning and concludes that the specification of organization as a critical variable for communication effectiveness in informative speaking doesn't appear to be justified. (MH)

Consciousness in the learning process is equated with the student's capacity for criticizing and checking. Eight prerequisites for comprehension are presented. Also discussed are the advantages and disadvantages of programmed instruction, and the advantages of audiovisual teaching. (Text is in German.) (IFS/WGA)

A speculative outline of a psychology of instruction as a science of design is presented. (DEP)

Four retroactive inhibition (RI) experiments involving the AB, AC (same stimuli, different responses) paradigm were conducted to determine whether learning the original list (OL) and the interpolated list (IL) under different color-context conditions (different) would reduce RI relative to learning both lists under the same context conditions…

This study determined if trials on a concept learning task could be analyzed, using multiple learning curves, to generate a family of curves which would clarify differences in methods of attaining concepts. (RC)

Four experiments are reported which investigate isolation effects in free recall. (RM)