The author reviews basic cognitive, affective, and skill objectives for elementary students related to the American Revolution. (DE)

Criterion Referenced Measurement (CRM) in the initial acquisition of the psychomotor skill of typewriting demonstrated speed gains from 8 hours of instruction distributed over a 6-week interval for 4 male adolescent underachievers of above- and below-average intelligence. (Author)

Research on problem-solving, which has been conducted by experimental psychologists, is used to develop a working legal education program for helping law students learn to solve legal problems. (JT)

Argues that professional organizations, such as the California Council for the Social Studies, have the responsibility of aiding teachers develop the skills to meet the challenges of the classroom. Ten examples of inservice courses available in California are specified. (Author/DB)

The article examines characteristics, diagnosis, and treatment of learning disabled adolescents from a clinical perspective. (PHR)

The effectiveness of a minicourse designed to improve the questioning skills of student teachers in grades 4-6 was investigated. Microteaching experience and supervisory feedback on student teaching behavior were provided for the experimental group, who made more significant gains in effective teaching behavior than the control group. (GDC)

To assess competency in American Sign Language (ASL) and manually coded English (MCE), 219 National Technical Institute for the Deaf students, judged to be skilled signers, viewed videotaped stories, one in ASL and one in MCE, followed by true/false questions in the same language as the story. (Author/PHR)

The performance of 22 trainable mentally handicapped Ss (6-12 years old) given training in the identification and utilization in object sorting of dimensional properties of form, size, and color was compared with nontrained controls. (Author)

Examines the feasibility of intensive instruction (II) in either the observation of details or hypothesis generation, utilizing a discrepant event filmloop, as a model for improving the open exploration skills of ninth graders. (Author/GA)

By its very nature, writing encourages the active participation of the client in the problem-solving process. For individuals who have been unable to take full advantage of the more traditional "let's talk about it" type of counseling, it can prove to be a significant step in the right direction. (Author)

The North Carolina Competency Program is an important tool in the attempt to improve the schools and the students. Discusses the effectiveness of the High School Graduation and Competency Program, H.B. 204, including what competencies should be measured, what competency tests should be used, and a number of critical issues related to the…

Effects of serial and concurrent task presentation on skill acquisition, generalization, and maintenance were compared with two severely retarded females (22 and 25 years old). (Author)

Assesses an effort by a university department of political science to involve graduate students in a seminar on teaching and to provide students experience in teaching undergraduates. Objectives of the seminar were to (1) examine some issues of teaching political science; (2) critique some perspectives on learning; and (3) design a teaching…

Two types of instruction were emphasized in the solution of insight problems. One study directed subjects to reformulate their initial view of the problem to avoid unnecessary assumptions about it; another required visualization of problem components. Results indicated that reformulation instructions contributed to performance, but visualization…

"A lot of what passes for thinking in schools is simply fluent talking." So says Edward de Bono, author of several books on thinking, and developer of Cognitive Research Trust (CoRT), who thinks children can and should be taught "thinking skills." (Editor/RK)