Children learn better when their own curiosity is given free rein. (CK)

Teacher identity has been defined in different ways through different methodologies. In this paper, the author uses autobiographical information, based on his life as an urban teacher and teacher educator, to depict his journey, insights and experiences. In doing so, he synthesizes the personal, pedagogical, and political aspects of his identity…

The meaning of discovery learning or discovery method of teaching and the goals one might wish to achieve by using this method are discussed. (Author/DEP)

The concept learning of poetic styles, using a transfer paradigm, extends earlier findings on the learning of artistic styles to prose materials. (Author/KM)

This essay sought to examine the difficulties surrounding the relevance of history to education. (Author/RK)

The combined use of rational sets of concept instances and of a concept definition is validated as a powerful controllable variable in instructional material that is designed to facilitate concept attainment. (Author)

IN A REPRODUCTION TASK WHICH INCLUDED INSTANCES OF SEVERAL SCHEMATA MIXED TOGETHER, SUBJECTS LEARNED TO DISTINGUISH AMONG THE SCHEMATA WITHOUT KNOWLEDGE OF RESULTS. A BEST FITTING EQUATION DESCRIBING PERFORMANCE AS A FUNCTION OF NUMBER OF REPRODUCTION TRIALS ACCURATELY PREDICTED LEARNING WITH NEW SUBJECTS AND PATTERNS RANDOMLY SAMPLED FROM A…

THE CONTRIBUTION MADE BY PIAGET TO KNOWLEDGE OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF CHILDREN IS SUMMARIZED. PIAGET'S INFLUENCE ON BERLYNE AND OTHER PSYCHOLOGISTS, THE RESEARCH METHODS USED BY PIAGET, AND THE CONCEPTS HE FORMULATED ARE BRIEFLY DESCRIBED. THE GOAL OF HIS RESEARCH CONDUCTED AT GENEVA IS IDENTIFIED AS THE DISCOVERY OF THE SUCCESSIVE STAGES IN THE…

The purpose of this field test was to see if young children are capable of producing operationalizations using the "Operationalization of Fuzzy Concepts" procedure. The fuzzy concept used was "having fun in school," and the procedure was conducted with four children aged 7-8. The procedure involved the following five steps: (a)…

This report, a supplement to Technical Report Number 82, is designed to aid the researcher concerned with concept learning. It contains: (1) a rationale and strategy for compiling a bibliography of articles concerned with concept learning; (2) a definition of the word concept; (3) a system for classifying articles by their content; (4) a…

The contents of this report are designed to aid the researcher concerned with concept learning. This publication contains: (1) rationale and strategy for compiling the bibliography, (2) a definition of the word concept, (3) a system for classifying articles by their content, (4) a bibliography of articles dealing with concept learning from 51…

Using A Programing Language (APL), a "computer glass box" was designed to stimulate students to think about selected concepts as well as to elucidate and reveal understanding. This approach is pedagogically suitable for a wide range of educational levels--from elementary school children to university graduate students. Using APL computer…

Recent theories of concept identification have dealt largely with two-category problems in which the correct classification of a stimulus depends on values of a single binary-valued dimension. Such concept identification problems can be solved by a single trial. Two or more dimensional problems would seem to require more complex methods of…

This report describes seven basic experiments designed to further elucidate the nature and function of two types of organization imposed by subjects in a free-recall type of memory task. The experiments involved verbal stimulus materials and employed college students as subjects. The two types of organization investigated were category clustering,…