The authors hypothesize that a means-end strategy places a load on cognitive processing capacity which retards knowledge acquisition. Three experiments using trigonometry problems with high school students were conducted in which the problem goal was modified to disrupt strategy used by novices. Results supported the authors' hypothesis.…

Discusses several experiential education learning models and explores the concept of "processing" as an integral component of experiential learning. Presents a method of approaching the design of processing activities and makes suggestions for successful use of the method. (SB)

Discusses the how many and how much lesson (how many people can acquire the rudiments of education, and how much they can learn), and the how few and how little lesson (how few of us assimilate the educational experience, and how little of the distillate consciously affects our decisions and actions). (CT)

Explains how journal writing, taught with some direction, can guide students' writing and provide them with a sense of self-discovery. (HOD)

Examines two responses to current traditional rhetoric--the new romantics who insist on the primacy of discovery and the new classicists who believe in aiding discovery through systematic heuristic procedures. (HOD)

Describes 10 categories of inferences and proposes a three-step procedure for teaching students to make inferences while reading. (HOD)

Discusses four means/ends discrepancies, explaining why teachers who say they want to promote children's thinking behave in ways counterproductive to their goals. Discrepancies involve classroom materials, teacher/student interactions, pupil outcomes, and professional growth. (RH)

Describes an instrumental enrichment program for assessing learning potential and correcting cognitive deficits. The program presents one5 curriculum packages consisting of paper-and-pencil exercises and providing materials for one-hour lessons three to five times a week for a period of three years. (RH)

Eighty-seven fifth graders in Israel were randomly assigned to four different filmmaking courses, covering photography only, scenario design and photography, editing and photography, or all three activities. Filmmaking had a significant effect on the cultivation of eight mental skills. The editing activity cultivated four logical inference skills.…

Examines ways to overcome the skills approach to reading instruction. Shows how to adapt typical skills lessons for use as strategy lessons based on a socio- and psycholinguistic model of reading. Presents two adapatations of skills lessons. (FL)

Examines British education in which students who have not learned to read in infant (primary) school are given "remedial" instruction, arguing that these students are not "remedial" but rather are learning language for the first time. Recommends teaching based on the similarities between remedial instruction and second language…

Three features are the foundation of instruction in thinking skills: (1) the learning environment, (2) the instructional strategies and methods used, and (3) the coordination and structure of skill teaching throughout the entire curriculum. (MD)

Presents several guidelines for creating lessons to teach critical thinking skills, a model lesson using these guidelines, and an analysis of the teaching strategies within the lesson that illustrates how the guidelines are applied. (HOD)

Reviews learning style research and concludes that five elements contribute to each students' instructional environment--sound, light, temperature, design, and need for mobility. Argues that when those elements are strong preferences it is very difficult for students to overcome them. (FL)

Argues that there is more to background experience than general knowledge--that concepts of print, language, story structue, and of reading's usefulness are equally important in developing early reading skills. (FL)