Proposes five generalizations on existing knowledge, learning, and their interaction, and discusses evidence for these from recent research on children's learning, memory, conceptual understanding, and problem solving. (Author/AOS)

A study was conducted to determine if seventh and eighth grade students were aware of various kinds of careers and if there was a need for career education at those grade levels. Students were poorly informed about jobs outside their communities and showed little knowledge of job status. (PP)

Addresses the importance of developing a relationship between ethics and education, i.e., an epistemology that can combine education with ethics and direct us toward quality. Emphasis is on the human structures of reasoning and their relationship to linguistics and ethics. (Author/SA)

Results of a study designed to discover the proficiency level in grade six mathematics of prospective elementary teachers in a mathematics curriculum and instruction course indicated no relationship between instructional mode and proficiency, a significant correlation between attitude and proficiency, and a strong relationship between ranking of…

Presents a model for studying and developing school nutrition education programs and better understanding potential influences on children's current nutrition knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors. Focuses on three environments (home and family, school, community) and the change process as influenced by nutrition education programs. (Author/DC)

Described are the results of a study conducted to evaluate student attentiveness to science and technology. Attentiveness is defined as having three dimensions: interest, knowledge, and acquisition. The attentiveness of college-bound, high school students, noncollege-bound high school students, and college students was compared. College-bound high…

Reports a study that compared a program of nutrition education guided by social learning theory with a more traditional teaching approach for elementary students. Pretests and posttests of students' nutrition knowledge and behavior and physical health indicated that children in both groups showed similar improvements. (SM)

Evaluated the effectiveness of an upper elementary, abstinence-based, sexuality education curriculum on students' knowledge, attitudes, and beliefs related to sexuality. Pre- and postintervention surveys of students in intervention and control groups indicated that intervention students had higher scores on knowledge and life skills and reported…

Examines the development and implementation of a multicultural education workshop designed to help future elementary school teachers prepare for classroom student diversity. Student journals and faculty perceptions are used in an outcome analysis that reveals an increase in participant knowledge, skills, and attitudes necessary for the…

Fourteen word problems, half of which were problematic from a realistic point of view, were administered to 332 Belgian preservice elementary school teachers who also saw answers given by 4 students. Results revealed a strong tendency to exclude real-world knowledge from spontaneous solutions and appreciations of student-supplied answers. (SLD)

Suggests that a holistic approach to teaching prospective teachers should encompass a knowledge base drawn from three paradigms: (1) instrument/technical; (2) interpretive/constructivist; and (3) emancipative/social reconstruction. Argues that use of such an approach will result in professional maturation and an expansion in influence in the…

Preservice teachers' beliefs and knowledge about educational equity and their experiences with equal education were studied with 992 education majors at four colleges. Results show that preservice teachers are no more accepting of diversity than is the general population. (SLD)

This study examined the effects of instructional match and content overlap on the ability of four students (ages 8-12) with mild disabilities to generalize from passage reading instruction. Results indicated that oral reading accuracy/fluency showed the greatest degree of generalization when instructional materials were matched to skill level…

A survey of 900 individuals, 600 in cities with academic medical centers, investigated public support of academic medicine, particularly among population segments likely to be politically active. Data were gathered on approval of academic medical centers' missions, gaps in public knowledge of how the institutions function, degree of anxiety over…

A study examined the association between sexual risk behaviors of 110 psychiatrically referred Latino girls aged 13-18 and their HIV knowledge. Questionnaires completed by the girls indicated that girls engaging in higher levels of sexual activity had clearly acquired accurate knowledge concerning HIV transmission but had not integrated it into…