In this article, the author, an elementary music teacher with the Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools, offers suggestions for developing music materials for the open classroom. (Editor/RK)

Describes a study designed to determine the effects of Science: A Process Approach (SAPA) on kindergarten children's ability to conserve on six tasks. It was concluded that the rate of attainment of conservation skills is affected at least in part by the experiences made possible by SAPA. (JR)

Seventy-two educable mentally retarded 11-year-old children were divided into a low mental age (MA) group (MA 87 months) and a high MA group (MA 106 months) to compare performance on the solving of variously presented verbal arithmetic problems. (Author/MC)

An overview and analysis of the use of learning hierarchies in instruction and research, examines some current research on learning hierarchies, and considers the implications of this research for instructional psychology and for theories of cognitive development. (Author)

Findings from an experiment designed to discover if color could improve learning from television. (Author/HB)

The effects on instrumental behavior of differences in type of task, type of reward and three organismic variables (history of social reinforcement from peers, extraversion, and intelligence) were investigated in preschool children. (ST)

Described a cooperative effort in instructional development in the community colleges in New York State. (Author/RK)

The purpose of this paper is to examine the question of student needs and the role that the "Our Schools" Project plays in their satisfaction. (Author/RK)

Considers learning programs for individualized instruction in the middle school, designed to facilitate the distinctive learning patterns and needs found among pre-adolescents. (Author/RK)

Study was concerned only with the impact of tutoring on the tutor's learning and attempted to determine whether tutors cognitively restructure the material in anticipation of teaching it to someone else. (Author/RK)

A report on a study which examined the possibility of instituting a merit pay plan in a small school district in California. The paper is a preliminary investigation aimed at focusing attention on the substantive issues of merit pay and their effect on instructional performances. (Author)

Based on a series of lectures given at the Summer Language Program, University of California at Santa Cruz, August 1972; translated from the English; special issue on "Changing Linguistics." (DD)

In this article faculty responsibility in several areas was considered, primarily responsibility for the conduct of the instructional process and responsibility to oneself and one's profession. (Author/RK)

Discusses the learning process and language usage in the English classroom, building on a theory of language originated by Alfred Korzybski. (RB)