This study determined if trials on a concept learning task could be analyzed, using multiple learning curves, to generate a family of curves which would clarify differences in methods of attaining concepts. (RC)

The role of educational technologists in the British Open University is examined, and the underlying assumptions of educational technology are questioned.

The purpose of this study was to investigate the nature of students' responses to an innovative curriculum unit in which I attempted to help students build bridges between traditional practices and beliefs about aspects of health and conventional western science concepts. This paper reports on the responses of one articulate student, who has given…

Article evaluated the merits of career education and defined its purpose for the curriculum. (RK)

Purpose of this experiment was to explore to what extent people can acquire concepts from exposure to definitions and to determine whether a procedure that induces semantic encoding will have the same effect on concept learning as such procedures have on associative learning. (Authors/MB)

Learning concepts implies certain attitudes and skills on the part of both teachers and student; means recalling specific perceptions, discovering relationships, and applying these structures to situations. Students who have learned to conceptualize have the ability and training to view their own lives in relations to their physical and cultural…

Results of a study involving 24 developmentally delayed preschoolers revealed that training on two or fewer exemplars of a stimulus class was sufficient to produce concept acquisition regardless of the training program employed (stimulus fading, stimulus delay, or reinforcement only). (CL)

An important contribution of cognitive style research is to make teachers aware of the cognitive style differences of their students and the resultant implications for teaching and learning. (JD)

The authors suggest that simply by changing the method of questioning, a teacher can change not only the intellectual demands in the classroom, but also the range of thinking strategies that provide for understanding and competence. (KC)

Describes the development and assessment of instructional materials intended to improve student understanding of the concept of time in special relativity, the relativity of simultaneity, and the role of observers in inertial reference frames. Demonstrates the effect of the curriculum and illustrates the intense cognitive conflict as students are…

Investigates the effects of conceptual assignments and conceptual change discussions on high school students' achievement and misconceptions about force and motion. Analyzes pretest and posttest data from the Force Misconception and Force Achievement Tests (FMFAT). Discusses the effects on the conceptual change discussion on reducing…

Three experiments examined the modes of processing that children and adults use in learning family-resemblance categories. Children and adults exhibited primarily analytic, rather than holistic, modes of learning. (PCB)

Illustrates how knowledge of the ways children develop understandings of science subjects can be used to improve instruction. Probes students' problems in understanding excretion. Suggests that understanding can be promoted through strategies that build on students' existing knowledge, elicit conceptual development, and establishes meaningful…