The general needs assessment instrument can provide the means for a school district to assess its needs relative to the Ten Goals of Quality Education. It is comprised of 63 area behavior statements taken from the category schemes. The student must check the appropriate number for each statement representing "always" through…

THIS RESEARCH CONCERNING CONCEPTUAL BEHAVIOR INVESTIGATED BOTH THE DEVELOPMENTAL ASPECTS OF CONCEPTUAL BEHAVIOR IN A CONTROLLED LABORATORY SITUATION AND THE RELATIONSHIP OF CONCEPT LEARNING IN THIS LABORATORY SETTING TO ACHIEVEMENT IN CURRICULAR AREAS OF JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL. THE GENERAL PLAN FOR THIS STUDY INVOLVED STRATIFIED RANDOM SELECTION AND…

This study represents one principal's effort to develop a school climate of teaching and learning to improve academic achievement for students at Intermediate School 158, Bronx, New York. In this program the staff was encouraged to create a diversity of learning environments related to the learning styles of pre-adolescent inner-city youth.…

A research project was conducted to develop and evaluate learning products that will assist exceptional children in learning specific skills. To investigate the learning processes of exceptional children, data was gathered from site visits, interviews, observations, relevant literature, copies of curriculum and evaluation forms for exceptional…

One of the most important capacities which children employ when learning language is the capacity to generalize. A child who hears an utterance of a verbal expression while perceiving a particular object (or action, aspect, etc.) becomes normally able to apply the expression not only to this object but also to all those objects which, for him, are…

This study attempts to determine if individual differences in multitask performance are due in part to the cognitive competence (i.e., the consistent, rule-based strategy) the subject brings to the task. A battery of learning (discrimination shift, transposition, incidental learning and paired-associate learning), cognitive-developmental…

Reports on research showing that when an event, or a problem, is repeated, the processing of that event is not necessarily repeated. Instead, sometimes the solution is remembered, and this is shown to influence subsequent retention, as well as such tasks as word perception. (AM)

The article gives an example of how, even though an individual's capacity to use or to learn a spoken language may be significantly impaired by brain damage, the ability to acquire a non-oral language system may remain intact. (Author/NCR)

The effects of elaboration instructions and imagery characteristics of verbal material on learning of Malay--English word pairs were investigated, as well as the moderating effects of individual differences. Results reflect aptitude X treatment interactions and the importance of individual differences in planning instructional methods. (Author/JAC)

A discussion of the effect of an immersion program on the majority language child. Research is reviewed on the "threshold hypothesis" and "the developmental interdependence hypothesis." Recent studies of the cognitive and academic effects of bilingualism are critically examined in the light of these hypotheses. A bibliography…

This study investigated the influence of differences in ambiguity tolerance and the effects of exposure to a videotape model on the interview behavior of counselor trainees. The potential of creating a variety of learning strategies, such as video modeling, to override the detrimental effects of certain personality characteristics is discussed.…

Hypotheses concerning second language learning and foreign language learning in general are described, and the role of listening comprehension in the development of language skills is discussed. (CLK)

Through the application of psychological and moral development principles to teacher education curricula, the author constructed a series of active learning experiences followed by structured reflection on those experiences. Major elements included teaching counseling skills directly to preservice teachers. Prepared for the Chicago, 1975 American…

This is a report on the work of the California Commission for Teacher Preparation on the Beginning Teacher Evaluation Study (BTES), to determine which skills and qualities are necessary for the beginning teacher to impart learning effectively in the classroom. (JD)