The question to be answered in the study was: Are there significant differences in learning when students are presented organizers before the learning passages (pre-organizers), after the learning passages (post-organizers), or when they are presented only the learning passages (no-organizers)? (Author)

Seeks to pin-point an assumption that underlies a great deal of current educational theory. The assumption is that knowledge is an indivisible whole, that distinctions made between different school subjects are thus arbitrary, and that one learning strategy--that of "discovery"--exists, trainable upon any enquiries and universally applicable once…

Study was concerned only with the impact of tutoring on the tutor's learning and attempted to determine whether tutors cognitively restructure the material in anticipation of teaching it to someone else. (Author/RK)

The relative effectiveness of two methods of instruction, orally-presented lessons and a written version of those lessons, was investigated using a post-test, an attitude scale, and time taken for instruction as criteria. (Author/RK)