The teacher's task is to plan for alternatives. (JH)

This paper describes an investigation of problem sequencing as part of a symposium presenting theoretical concerns and research findings regarding several diverse types of strategies for designing and presenting instructional materials. The first step involved analyzing a set of problems, to determine the knowledge (rules) required for solving the…

Described is a system for evaluating a child's learning pattern. It is explained that the evaluation is based on a social history, visual screening (including acuity, functional skills, pursuit skills and binocularity skills), auditory evaluation, motor assessment, and academic testing. (CL)

The effects of level of adjunct question (factual, application) and type of feedback (no feedback, correct answer feedback, self-correction feedback) on learning concepts from prose were examined in a study of 135 volunteer undergraduates at Iowa State University. Adjunct application questions produce better performance on subsequent new…

Recent publications of longitudinal and sequential analyses of psychometric data have been cited as evidence for "the myth of intellectual decline" with age. This term "myth" has been interpreted by many gerontologists to mean that intellectual functioning does not decline even late in life (except shortly before death). Furthermore, this…

Authors traced the development of nonformal education and question whether it can bring significant income and status benefits to the economically disadvantaged in developing countries. (Editor/RK)

In the present study an attempt was made to investigate the duality of encoding mechanisms via instructional sets that were independent of stimulus characteristics. (Author)

Investigates the relationship between speaking position and rank in intercollegiate forensic tournaments. Findings indicate that speaking position doesn't appear to influence ranking in forensic competition. (MH)

Author recommended that the traditional lunchroom be abandoned in favor of intimate feeding programs directed and shared by teachers. The school, he said, should be reorganized to center around the feeding of children. (Editor/RK)

Flow charts are useful teaching devices with retarded children for depicting a sequence of events and the relationship of those events to the whole. (CL)

The following experiments are an attempt to clarify the role of learned safety by investigating the applicability of the concept of conditioned inhibition to a taste-aversion procedure and by differentiating its effects fromthose of latent inhibition. (Author)

The trend toward the development of the person with emphasis on perceptual awareness, psychological growth, self-actualization, nonverbal learning, and creative behavior is called synaesthetics, or humanistic education. The development of affective objectives should include not only the arts, but also the academic subjects. (JR)