While visiting a living museum children can be made to awaken their senses and heighten their learning experiences. Zoos, aquariums and botanical gardens can offer such motivation. (RK)

Article examined the problem of deciding what kind of learning experiences could be structured that would tend to increase the student's level of performance in general education courses for students majoring in auto mechanics. (Author/RK)

The present investigation made the comparison between children's drawings published in 1897 with those of another generation - contemporary children's drawings - in attempting to determine whether learning or maturation are directly responsible for artistic development. (Author/RK)

Author, a famed anthroplogist, made this longitudinal study to try to show what has happened to one human scientist who has been deeply involved with educational theory all her life. (Author/RK)

Article evaluated mastery learning, a teaching strategy originating from behavior-oriented educational technology with objectives specified in behavioral terms. (Editor/RK)

Reforms suggested in several major national assessments of secondary education have led to the development of a number of experiential, community-based programs for secondary students. Experience-Based Career Education offers such programs to over 15,000 students in all 50 states. Of these, 218 students from five states were administered an…

THIS STUDY WAS AN ATTEMPT TO REMEDY IN PART THE PRESENT DEFICIENCIES IN EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS FOR CHILDREN WITH LEADERSHIP POTENTIAL. A SAMPLE OF 45-70 KINDERGARTEN CHILDREN WERE STUDIED IN A TWO-PHASE PROGRAM. THE FIRST 2-YEAR PHASE WAS DEVOTED TO EXPERIMENTING WITH METHODS OF ASSESSING LEADERSHIP BEHAVIOR AND WITH SPECIFIC EXPERIMENTAL…

THE EXPERIMENTATION EXPLORES THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN IMMEDIATE AND DELAYED REINFORCEMENT. IT IS STATED THAT THE RELATIVE EFFECTIVENESS OF EITHER REINFORCEMENT DEPENDS ON THE TYPE OF RESPONSE LEARNED AND THE FUNCTION OF THE REINFORCEMENT. THESE EXPERIMENTS EXPLORE THE INTERACTION BETWEEN THE TIME INTERVAL SEPARATING RESPONSE AND REINFORCEMENT, THE…

THE PURPOSE OF SYSTEMATIC TEACHING AND LEARNING IN ARITHMETIC IS TO HELP CHILDREN DEVELOP IDEAS OF PROCEDURE, METHODS OF THINKING, MEANING INHERENT IN NUMBER REACTIONS AND ARRANGEMENT IN ORDER THAT THE QUANTITATIVE SITUATIONS OF LIFE MAY BE HANDLED INTELLIGENTLY. AT THE KINDERGARTEN-PRIMARY LEVEL THE NUMBER CONCEPTS TO BE FOSTERED ARE--PUTTING…

TELEVISION HAS NEITHER ELIMINATED, REDUCED, NOR REPLACED MAN'S NEED AND USE OF BOOKS, BUT HAS MERELY INCREASED HIS APPETITE FOR KNOWLEDGE. LIBRARIANS, BOOK PUBLISHERS, MAGAZINE AND NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ALL ATTEST TO INCREASED GROWTH AND USE OF PRINTED MATERIALS SINCE THE ADVENT OF ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATION. EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION WAS SPURRED IN THE…