A plan to improve individualized instruction at the elementary and secondary level is presented. (CK)

Reviews research and supports a perceptual-motor theory of handwriting instruction. (RD)

Article discussed educational programs for older persons and their behavior toward participating in them as well as their natural abilities for achieving mental growth. (RK)

Used data from a college classroom to demonstrate the value of taking student learning styles into consideration when designing and revising a course. Learning styles were assessed in 58 students using the Inventory of Learning Processes. Casual path analyses revealed relationships between certain evaluation components and certain learning styles.…

Describes skill learnability, the degree to which a managerial skill can be acquired or modified by training and development. Argues that managerial skills comprised of large social/interactive components and affected by underlying noncognitive attributes are more difficult to learn than skills articulated through a common body of knowledge.…

In experiments with seven- to ten-year-old children, mismatched pictures increased learning of prose that was heard and prose that was read. Presence of pictures mismatched to prose they accompanied had little negative impact on cued recall. Twenty-seven references are provided. (Author)

Presents results of research into the relationship between two anxiety measures and performance on a visual concept acquisition task for university undergraduates. Analysis of variance indicates a significant interaction between cueing treatment and scores on the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory. Further research using different populations and…

Textbooks play a major role in influencing children's beliefs and attitudes about subjects. Textbook coverage of evolution is analyzed to demonstrate that textbooks could be responsible for implanting in children the distorted perception that science is infallible. (Author/IS)

Newell and Simon's new theory of thinking is summarized and some educational implications developed. The enaction theory implies that thinking is a skill and should be taught like other skills, by teaching methods of how to perform it. The traditional theory of thinking and its influence are briefly discussed. (Author/MH)

Three psychometric methods for validating learning hierarchies were applied to one data set derived from student responses (N=269) to items representing skills in a hypothesized hierarchy for the mole concept. The hierarchy derived from the analysis was supported by a test for transfer of learning from subordinate to superordinate skills.…