Standards for evaluating transactions that comprise the learning process are required for an understanding of the individual learning experience. (Author/RY)

Describes a workshop at the Center for Humanistic Education which stressed the development of the communication skills needed for interpersonal relationships, and generally sought ways in which classrooms and colleges might be humanized. Author and others are attempting to put these suggestions into practice at Bronx Community College. (Author/DR)

This paper is divided into three sections: (1) the relationships of mathematical ability to reading ability and general intelligence, (2) reading instruction and mathematics learning (including methods of teaching word problems), and (3) student and teacher verbalization (interaction and verbalizations of mathematical generalizations). (JG)

The article presents numerical procedures for the validation and comparison of hierarchically organized curricula. Examples of specific hypotheses one should test, and calculations of five statistics for testing these hypotheses are given (consistency ratio, adequacy ratio, inverse consistency ratio, inverse adequacy ratio, and completeness…

An educational psychologist outlines some recent changes in the conception of human learning and memory, and discusses their implications for the design and practice of instruction. (MF)

The hypothesis that thematic prompts facilitate learning by furnishing mediators was investigated in three experiments, two of which produced enhanced learning. (CK)