The recent reformulation of the business-school curriculum has resulted in a lack of connection between what business students should know and what they are actually taught. Business students are offered little of intellectual or moral substance under the current curriculum. (SLD)

In-depth interviews with 22 children in migrant work camps (ages 9 through 12) indicated that most were significantly involved in family food preparation, but less in food purchasing. They did not prepare or plan meals based on knowledge of nutrition of safe food-handling practices. (SK)

Draws on examples from the "Review of Research in Education" to show some ways in which reviews have specific politics both in how they construct their world and how they are received in determinate fields of power. (SLD)

Considers the meaning of "review" in the context of the historical development of the "Review of Educational Research" (RER). Historical and conceptual discussions about reviews and RER elaborate important considerations of the politics of the field of educational research. (SLD)

The role of distinctiveness in the differential memory performance of visual and verbal elaboration strategies was studied with 28 undergraduates who learned information about familiar and unfamiliar animals using visual or verbal elaboration strategies. Imagery-using students organized unfamiliar animal information into intact sets more than…

A survey asked 323 teenagers what they want to know about financial management. Most indicated that using money to buy things they need made money important to them. Their responses differed from what 67 adults surveyed thought they needed to know. (JOW)

A survey of 88 journalists from metropolitan newspapers found a low level of knowledge about food biotechnology. Most considered genetic modification of plants acceptable, of animals somewhat acceptable. They trusted university scientists as sources and believed farmers would accept food biotechnology sooner than consumers would. (Contains 31…

Intellectual knowledge and wisdom-related knowledge differ in goals, approach, range, method of acquisition, and effects on the knower. Intellectual knowledge tends to decrease with age. The relationship between wisdom and aging is potentially positive if not impeded by cognitive deterioration. (Contains 68 references.) (SK)

Studied the effect of various instructional sets on reducing the claiming of knowledge of fictitious agencies in a survey of awareness of public agencies completed by 1,068 registered voters. Warning respondents that the list contained fake agencies reduced overclaiming but providing a memory retrieval strategy had no effect on overclaiming. (SLD)

Reviews existing literature on gestures and teaching in anthropology, linguistics, psychology, and education and, in the context of several concrete analyses of gesture use, articulates some focal questions relevant to educational research on knowing, learning, and teaching. (SLD)

Examined the relationship between commonly used indicators of knowledge and actual knowledge in five areas among fitness trainers. Data from the Fitness Instructors Knowledge Assessment indicated that a bachelor's degree in the field of exercise science and possession of one of two specific certifications strongly predicted a trainer's knowledge,…

The misconceptions regarding the nature of ATP hydrolysis and bond breaking are discussed. The students' knowledge in this area is quantitatively measured by a survey of over 600 biochemistry and physiology students.

The authors conducted 3 experiments addressing the issue of how observations and multiple sources of prior knowledge are put together in category learning. In Experiments 1 and 2, learning was faster for critical features, which were predictable on the basis of prior knowledge, than for filler features, and this advantage increased as more…

This paper examines the question of whether there are useful general thinking skills. It offers a working definition of "thinking skill" and identifies ways in which this concept has been over-applied. Thinking skills, used across domains, are not inevitably weak as a result of the generality-power tradeoff. Admitting that thinking skills require…

The Biology department at Spelman, a historically black women's college has undertaken a major curriculum revision in the last few years. A primary goal of this revision is to increase the breadth of topics in biology classes. Historically, classes in the areas of ecology and evolution have been underrepresented whereas Spelman has always offered…