Two learning strategies, visual imagery and self questioning, designed to increase reading comprehension were taught to six learning disabled (LD) secondary students. The Visual Imagery Strategy required the student to read a passage and to create visual images representative of the content; while the Self Questioning Strategy taught the student…

This paper discusses ways in which the field of speech communication can be advanced. The first half of the paper characterizes the objectivist and subjectivist views of how knowledge is acquired and the forms of inquiry to which these views have led. The remainder of the paper demonstrates the role that the "interesting question" (one for which…

Problems for the biographical researcher in conducting oral interviews with primary sources are discussed. Successful biographical research using oral history must be thorough and honest. A major problem in getting candid information from primary subjects may occur if quotations touch upon areas considered personal or controversial. Other problems…

TO SUPPORT THE VIEW THAT THERE ARE SEVERAL WAYS OF CONTROLLING LEARNING BEHAVIORS, TWO APPROACHES TO STUDYING THE EFFECT OF QUESTIONS ON ADULT READING BEHAVIOR IN RELATION TO PROGRAMED MATERIALS ARE REVIEWED, AND AN ALTERNATIVE S-R MODEL IS OFFERED. THE "CYBERNETIC" VIEW PROCEEDS FROM THE ASSUMPTION THAT SENSORY FEEDBACK RATHER THAN…

A NATURAL INQUIRY SITUATION WAS CONSTRUCTED WHICH INCLUDED A RANGE OF POTENTIALLY PROBLEMATIC SITUATIONS WHICH COULD BE REACTED TO BY THE SUBJECTS, A ROLE PLAYING SET TO ENGAGE THE SUBJECTS' EMOTIONAL INVESTMENT, AND INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL INFORMATION SOURCES WHICH THE TEACHERS COULD MANIPULATE IN THEIR INQUIRIES. THE OBJECTIVES OF THIS STUDY WERE…

A technique using information and decision-making theories to evaluate problem solving tactics is presented. In problem solving, the process of solution is evaluated by investigating the questions that the subject doing the problem solving asks. The sequence of questions asked is called a tactic. It is assumed that: (1) tactics are the observable…

This brief guide to interview training in survey research is designed for persons without previous training or experience in interviewing. Basic techniques of interviewing are presented in such a manner as to facilitate the training of persons with varying educational and socioeconomic backgrounds. Topics include: the interviewer's role in the…

Special circumstances surround the surveying of businessmen's information needs. The businessman's characteristics must be considered; he is pragmatic and practical is time-oriented, has simple and basic information needs, is probably unaware that the public library can help him, has limited and specialized information resources, and uses a…

This report summarizes the results of a study to determine the overall effectiveness of adjunct programming techniques and to determine further whether the form and frequency of self-test questions contained in the adjunct program have differential effects on learning. Four formats of adjunct programs were used by different groups as a supplement…

The Science Curriculum Improvement Study has identified two main types of lessons: invention lessons, where the teachers introduce concepts, and discovery lessons in which children apply the concepts to new situations. The transcripts of tape recordings of the same sequence of four lessons, two invention and two discovery, of four teachers in the…

Reported is a study of the effect of having seventh grade science students make overt verbal responses in written form to questions of varying degrees of complexity following sequential segments of programed instruction on Newtonian mechanics. It was hypothesized that students responding to more complex questions would have significantly higher…

Because the pressure of technological advancement has made teaching factual knowledge increasingly difficult, educators have been developing curriculums to transmit intellectual processes applicable to many tasks instead of subject matter content. One of the 20 educational Follow Through programs, the Tucson Early Education Model, surveyed 42…

Spontaneous and model-induced production of a valuational style of inquiry was studied in 128 third grade children. Provision of a favorable versus a neutral outcome-expectation, and sex of child failed to influence the results. All modeling groups displayed strong value-question increases over baseline which, without further tutelage, they…

Two separate studies were conducted: 1) one examining the effect on sixth grade subjects (N=113) of relevant questions occurring shortly after reading textual material on posttraining tests to a control condition not receiving the questions, and 2) one replicating it and also examining learning in small group (individual-like situations) as well…