Sees Dobbert et al's model of cultural transmission (this issue) as generalizing, structural, mechanical, predetermined, formal, digital, and etic. Posits an alternative approach that is idiographic, processual, organic, open, nonformal, analogical, and attentive to emic data. Argues that the Dobbert model accounts inadequately for the implicit,…

Analysis of learning style, error clusters, and grade equivalents of 53 delinquent adolescents and 51 junior high students revealed significant differences in type and prevalence of multiple error clusters within eight educational skill areas and across eight combined skills. Significantly higher prevalence of school problems among delinquents was…

The effects of prior knowledge and information orderings on the immediate and delayed recall of unfamiliar information under various levels of control for the effects of cognitive style and reading achievement were studied. Significant interaction effects were discovered. (Author/DF)

Examined the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children protocols of 94 special education students longitudinally. As predicted, subjects had lower IQ equivalent scores on Bannatyne's Sequencing Ability category than on the WISC and WISC-R, confirming that mildly retarded children and learning disabled children have qualitatively similar learning…

Distinguishes between objective and subjective meaning, illustrates the impact of subjective meaning on learning, and argues for a more balanced treatment of both. (FL)

Suggests that even the youngest children use systematic strategies in ordering the elements of a story based on causal and temporal relationships. (FL)

Results of the study involving five moderately/severely retarded adolescents indicated that picture prompts can be successully used to promote both acquisition and generalization of performance, and the subsequent training time on a novel task was reduced when the use of picture prompts had been previously trained. (Author/CL)

An investigation of the effects of passive and active rehearsal on developmental processing differences for movement reproduction indicated that active and mature rehearsal had positive results for the younger child. A discussion of the three methods of rehearsal that were used is included. (Author/DF)

Precommunicative, semiphonetic, phonetic, transitional, and correct spelling are the developmental stages in the acquisition of spelling competency. Samples of children's early spelling patterns are presented. A system for classifying early spelling strategy is outlined. (DF)

The process of learning art is related to experience and to the growth of understanding and not solely to the development of technique. Experience of the world, and of nature, thus becomes the source of painting. (Author/CMG)

The article views assessing spelling as a cognitive and developmental process. Five developmental levels that may precede readiness for formal spelling instruction are described and illustrated. A word list and directions for assessing children's developmental levels are followed by prescriptive guidelines for cognitive and developmental…

Discusses the value of reflective thought in classroom drama. Examines three levels of reflection in drama, discussing how integration of reflection and drama can become a medium for learning. (HTH)

The textbook characteristics of type size, type style, and layout, and the important psychological role these play in learning are discussed in terms of their application to the design of a typewriting text. (Editor/HD)

These experiments seek evidence for the existence, the operation, and the extent of influence of one type of code--a verbal, linguistic, semantic, name code--on memory. As well, they bring a new stimulus dimension, color, to this kind of test in a manner that would allow identification of individual variation in the use of different verbal labels…

This study highlights some theoretical ideas which should be considered in attempting to assess the degree of abstraction underlying conceptual learning. (Author/RK)