A growing body of research indicates that formal discovery, or heuristic, procedures can enhance the composing process of sophisticated university students. Other studies suggest that below-average and average students can benefit from a similar approach. Specifically, the introduction of a model based on tagmemic heuristic theory in an adult…

Currently, two trends are converging that will shape the future of communication theory. One is "the new narcissism"--a phenomenon characterized by prescriptions for personal fulfillment such as those reflected in popular psychologies and religions. The second trend is the scientific revolution concerned with exchanging static models of reality…

Implications for affective education are drawn from an empirical study of 60 upper-middle socioeconomic class 6 to 15 year-olds' responses to questions asking how videotaped actors felt. Percentage frequencies of category use in tape-recorded transcripts coded by two judges revealed no differences by child's sex. Marked developmental differences…

The implications for education are discussed in an experiment that measured student desire to achieve either at a high or low standard in the classroom. (Editor/RK)

Subjects (n=24), 12 of whom were in the age range of 18-30 years and 12 of whom were between 55-65 years, performed two semantic memory tasks. Results suggested that subjects in the older group may have retrieved information faster than the young subjects, but that they required longer to decide upon a response. (Author)

This article proposed ways to interest preschool children in their future academic involvement without overcoming them with a fear of school. (RK)

This exploratory piece suggests different ways to look at the process of career development and implies directions for investigators interested in shaping a "theory of practice" for teachers. (Author)

This study, by comparing for learning disabled and control children parental frequency rating of physical punishment and of completion of tasks, hypothesized that parental indulgence is associated with learning disorders. Referral children with learning problems (N=18), were rated significantly lower on both measures that students referred for…

Examines the inhibition of recall of list items when extralist items are introduced, and describes experiments which suggest that this is an expression of a more general inhibition phenomenon. (Author/AM)

Educating the child to be visually literate may help solve such educational problems as lack of motivation, irrelevancy and inefficient learning. (JH)

The author attempts to develop a theory of learning to account for complex human learning using early reading as an example. (HMD)

Results indicate that transfer of learning depended on the congruence between students' previous learning in the experiment and subsequent instruction. (Author/BJG)

Author offered his perception and the progress to date and his opinion of the significance of the report of the Reform of Intermediate and Secondary Education Commission. (Author/RK)

Describes a group method for determining the influence of reinforcement on a child's recognition learning. Subjects were found to recognize designs and abstract paintings which they had idiographically prejudged as positive in reinforcement value more readily than those which they had prejudged as megative. (ED)