A content analysis of 1,462 written responses provided by the adult learners explaining their rationales for preferring differing learning interaction patterns was conducted. Eight major response categories emerged, including instructor-centered and collaborative rationales. The rationales found were compared to rationales suggested in the adult…

A developmental process consisting of four phases that emerged from graduate students' reports of their experiences in a course promoting self-direction is outlined and compared with research on similar processes in other groups. (MSE)

To validate their use in a natural environment with realistic learning materials and conditions, the efficacy of adjunct questions was tested in a college biology course with a double-crossover design. Mixed results were obtained. It is concluded that it would be better to make adjunct questions optional. (Author/LMO)

Discusses four classroom writing activities that can be subsumed within the content area learning environment: anticipatory questioning, notetaking, using graphic organizers, and writing summary paragraphs. (FL)

Describes a classroom technique that promotes higher levels of thought and enhances learning in graduate and undergraduate teacher education classes. (DF)

Several aspects of Mosston's Spectrum of Styles are listed and discussed. Many of the concepts have not been proven as appropriate instructional approaches. The idea of reconceptualizing several styles of the Spectrum into microstrategies is suggested. (Author/DF)

Concludes that fifth-, seventh-, ninth-, and eleventh-grade students learned more and understood more from television newscasts that used film. Finds also that even young children understand the structure of newscasts. (FL)

Examines how painters and other artists who lived in the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries learned to draw as children. Results supported the conventionalist view of how children learn to draw, i.e., most of the children learned to draw by copying directly from pictures. (RM)

Concludes that the model of cultural transmission designed by Dobbert et al and described in this journal is a major advance in the field, but that the model will only be fully rounded once they incorporate the processes by which the learner acquires his or her culture. (RDN)

Reports on programs and activities designed to teach thinking skills either as a separate school subject or as a strand in a content area. (FL)

Discusses the elements of the language learning process, i.e., language experience, the learner, mental processes, comprehension, learning, the capacities the learner brings to the process, and the conditions for learning and elaborates on their implications for second language teaching. What must occur before the learner moves across the gap…

Reviews literature on (1) prerequisite skills students should develop prior to learning a textbook-study system, (2) teaching activities undertaken before introducing a system to a class, and (3) recommended procedures for teaching SQ3R. (FL)

Reports the results of a study of the effects of different types of recall expectation on the accuracy of making structural importance ratings of text ideas and on the recall of idea units by importance levels. (AEA)

Reports on experiments that investigated several aspects of foreign language reading, especially the role and influence of the audiolingual component on the learning process. (FL)

Presents highlights of cognitive science research into learning processes. Discusses concepts such as qualitative understanding (the process of relating new information to a preexistent context) and metacognition (strategies for monitoring thought and regulating one's own behavior according to what a task demands). (TE)