The three studies described in this section were undertaken to examine further aspects of depth of processing and to throw more light on the factors underlying good memory performance. (Author)

Author presented the criteria that he and his fellow art teachers discovered for suggesting the direction education has to take in order to develop a comprehensive program of the arts in the interests of overall good sound education. (Author/RK)

Examines the influence of oral message organization on fact recall, patterning and problem-solving. (MH)

Maintains that in the future media technology will be utilized in problem-solving situations. (MH)

The author, a superintendent of the Vallejo City Unified School District in California, considered the basic premise of the RISE Commission Report, i.e., that the learner is the primary client to be served by the school. (Author/RK)

The presentation is a brief and free paraphrase of a 1968 article by Thomas G. Saunders (in the American Universities Field Staff Report, West Coast South America Series, vol. 15 n1). The Freire Method makes literacy training a critical, active process through which habits of resignation are overcome. (Author)

Granting freedom to another person to choose his goals and learn in his own way is a difficult and risky process. Here a teacher of French gives an honest and personal account of several years of struggle on her own part toward taking that risk. (Editor)

Author evaluated her experiences as a young student teacher in an open classroom. (RK)

Author discusses why educational priorities must be redefined in terms of today's realities and the perceived needs and demands of tomorrow. (Author)

Described the movement toward humanistic education and how learning can become a "peak experience". (Author/RK)

Authors analyzed the merits of focusing on the three R's and how each of those skills compared with the other as a priority for student development. (RK)

Results show that children with flexible styles obtained higher performances on school learning measures than children who used consistent styles. Study results suggest feasibility of identifying children who tend to use a consistent conceptual style for the purposes of prescribing instructional methods and materials. (Author/PC)

Examines experimental studies in which learning procedures such as reinforcement, direct instruction, and modeling are applied in an attempt to alter characteristics of children's information processing behaviors. Discusses whether the studies have demonstrated acquisition of generalized cognitive functions or merely elicitation of task specific…

This study examines the role of verb imagery and noun phrase concreteness in the recognition and recall of sentences. The results indicate that concrete noun phrases are more easily remembered while verb imagery had no effect. (DE)

Degree of transfer and fear change associated with four levels of desensitization, pseudodesensitization, and no treatment were assessed in snakephobic students. Desensitization subjects reported significantly less anxiety than no-treatment controls when repeating their highest pretreatment responses, but were no different from either control…