The author outlines nine principles relevant to planning instruction for students who experience difficulties in academic and social skills. (SBH)

Teachers introduced to six skills through concept-based training showed greater mastery of probing and informing skills than did a control group. (Editor)

Announces the findings of a study which appeared in the June, 1979 issue of "Perceptual and Motor Skills." According to the study, introverted children learn more through observation than do extroverted children and extroverts respond more to social, person-oriented stimuli. (Author/SA)

The relation of reading comprehension and information retention is discussed with emphasis on teaching methods and learning activities. (DS)

Scientific developments during the last few decades offer a radical new way of looking at learning--one that appears to have enormous potential for helping teachers bring about major gains in students' achievement. (DS)

High individual accountability did not show significant positive effects on learning when compared with cooperative reward conditions. (JD)

Teachers can accommodate differences in student learning styles by creating an environment in which individuals feel free to be themselves. (Author)

Findings indicated that, in general, seeing a training film in color did not enhance performance; in fact it appeared to have inhibited it. (Author/DLS)

The initial learning and subsequent transfer of an oddity principle by 50 children between 4 and 5 years of age were studied. The initial standard oddity problem was learned quickly by most of the children. A high level of performance was maintained on both transfer sets. (MS)

Twenty-six subjects were exposed to a period of noxious stimulation and subsequently performed a task that incidentally involved learning to avoid one of two types of punishment, electric shock and monetary loss. Results support Lykken's theory of the development of sociopathic behavior and Aronfreed's more general conceptualization of aversive…

Don't panic. Here's how to take Teaching English as a Second Language one step at a time. (Editor)

The educational experiences of students result from the prescribing of resources and activities. Available resources and activities are referred to as learning alternatives. Alternatives help to promote the learning of concepts, themes, topics, and skills and to clarify values, interests, attitudes, and personal goals. (Author)

After rejecting the extremes of complete coordination and no coordination in answering the question posed in the title, authors make the case for the middle ground. They then proceed to emphasize some points they consider essential to any educational program. (Editor/RK)

Attempts to develop an index that will provide a broader data base from which to determine the relative strengths of list items in memory. (Author/RK)

The comparison of data from two vocabulary-learning studies involving a total of 2,483 males and females in the fifth and sixth grades suggests that "common sense" decisions regarding the selection and assignment of learning materials may be ineffecient if not detrimental. (Editor)