When compared with control Ss, experimental Ss showed significantly greater favorable change in seven areas. Followup research showed this program to be effective in combatting low achievement and in placing its students in challenging collegiate programs where they have remained and performed successfully for two years. (Author)

An elementary school teacher in New Zealand describes the fruits of a nondirective learning environment in his classroom. (BB)

Discussed is the alternative to universal primary education' proposed at the Bellagio Conference on Education and Development, May, 1971. (JB)

Questioning is an important teaching skill. Teaching should be able to ask thinking' questions as well as memory' questions and they should be able to ask questions about ideas as well as facts. Two dimensions of a question are reviewed; the dimensions are then combined into a matrix illustrating thirteen types of cognitive questions. (Author)

One of a series of articles which will deal with non-school influences on learning in school and the limitations these influences impose on the ability of schools, teachers, and school districts to make a significant impact on the education of low-income children. (DM)

Purpose of this experiment was to explore to what extent people can acquire concepts from exposure to definitions and to determine whether a procedure that induces semantic encoding will have the same effect on concept learning as such procedures have on associative learning. (Authors/MB)

Findings clearly demonstrate that interference theory can account for the forgetting of meaningfully-learned, connected discourse. (Authors)

Learning concepts implies certain attitudes and skills on the part of both teachers and student; means recalling specific perceptions, discovering relationships, and applying these structures to situations. Students who have learned to conceptualize have the ability and training to view their own lives in relations to their physical and cultural…

Author examines learning experiences conducive to the development of critical thinking processes. (Editor)

An attempt to integrate some promising theoretical approaches to cognitive learning and develop an integrated model which could be tried out in an action learning situation-the classroom. (Author)

The development and field test of a model prescribing specific operations for tryout and revision of self-instructional multi-media learning systems. (Author)