This paper analyzes common practice and the difficulties children encounter and outlines an entre to mathematics learning which may make the child's task easier. (Author)

This paper attempts to illustrate the usefulness of simulated test taking (STT) in personality and abnormal psychology courses. (Author)

Results of the study lend support to the contention that the interview method is superior to the conventional lecture method is promoting achievement. (Authors)

Article reports on a study of effects on students of high and low teacher expectations. (Editor)

Most pressing and unsolved problem in engineering education is reluctance to adopt new teaching techniques, advanced information processes and data systems. (IR)

Section contains notes on "Procedural Steps in Individualizing FL Instruction," a report on the Stanford Conference on Individualization of Instruction in Foreign Languages (Stanford University, May 6-10, 1971), and "A Comment on Including Culture in an Individualized Foreign Language Program." (DS)

Describes a project at Honeywell Information Systems that uses Computer Assisted Instruction (CAI) to train employees to make more effective use of computers. Notes that industry is leading the way in Data Processing (DP) training and may be evolving solutions to public education's shortage of DP training resources. (MP)

To prepare diabetic patients and their families to assume some responsibility for their own health care, an individualized and comprehensive educational program was developed, based on data collected with a diabetes educational profile. It was found that integrating qualitative and quantitative techniques improved results. (CT)

Results are reported from a study examining computer usage in high schools that have had computer facilities for many years. (MP)

Addresses the application of corpus resources and research methods, through concordance programs, to vocabulary study in second-language programs. The article attempts to demonstrate that a corpus linguist's use of his access to large quantities of data to observe the relational and distributional properties of linguistic phenomena can be usefully…

Investigates consumer research through an activity that helps students distinguish between qualitative and quantitative data. (KHR)

Presents weekly activities that focus on various forms of transportation in the world. Students investigate transportation through data collection, geometry, and measurement. (KHR)