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Carlisle, Kenneth E. – Training and Development Journal, 1985
Describes how a public service company developed a four-day course designed to evaluate trainees' learning ability and upgrade their study skills. Examines the structured group pretest of trainees' entry study skills, the benefits of being a goal-oriented trainee, the PREP (preview, read, examine, prompt) Study System, memory recall, and test…
Descriptors: Course Evaluation, Goal Orientation, Learning Strategies, Learning Theories
Peer reviewedSprenger, Marilee – Educational Leadership, 1998
Our memories are not necessarily "bad," but stored in different areas. By understanding the five memory lanes (semantic, episodic, procedural, automatic, and emotional), a high school English teacher discovered why her students could not do fractions (to calculate grades) in English class. Paper-and-pencil tests can be redesigned to assess memory…
Descriptors: Brain, Elementary Secondary Education, Memory, Student Evaluation
Peer reviewedTversky, Barbara; And Others – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1994
Reviews two projects studying the nature of mental representations of space induced entirely by language. The first project investigates perspective in descriptions of large-scale (e.g., convention center, town) space. The second project investigates mental representations of objects located immediately around the body. (37 references) (KRN)
Descriptors: Experiments, Geographic Location, Human Body, Language
