Differing world views and cultural expectations affect how teachers and students relate to one another. (Author)

College students either read or listened to tape-recorded stories, and immediately wrote a 60- to 80-word summary. A comparison of the readers' and the listeners' summaries revealed only minor differences; listeners included slightly more idiosyncratic detail. The processes underlying listening comprehension and skilled reading were similar.…

Reports results of a study on the effectiveness of various methods of teaching metric linear measuring concepts to educable mentally retarded junior high school students. Contrary to expectations, superiority of the industrial arts treatment using physical measurement activities over the workbook method was not demonstrated. (MF)

The classroom use of attribute blocks to develop thinking skills is defended in this article. Divergent-productive thinking is identified as an important skill that can be developed by using these blocks. However, teacher commitment and involvement in the program is considered necessary. Suggestions for using these blocks are included. (MA)

A detailed critical review is conducted of N. Bennetts "Teaching Styles and Pupil Progress," a British report investigating the implementation and effectiveness of informal, progressive educational theory in Great Britain. (MB)

In developing a gifted education curriculum, the match between learner and curriculum must be considered, and a strategy for preparing the scope-and-sequence curriculum product should be determined. In the curriculum development process in Gary, Indiana, goals and sequential learning objectives were generated for each subject area by grade level…

Third-grade students were exposed to a literature passage, The Red Carpet, via one of three modes of presentation. The teacher read aloud from a book, showed a filmstrip, or showed a film. A listening retention test was administered, and results showed that the differences were statistically insignificant. (Author/GDC)

Research subsidized by the Ministry of Culture of Lower Saxony. (DD)

Describes an integrated guiding program in book form, Mathematics for the Teacher of Physics''. (DD)

Article attempts to orient the reader to the behavioral approach and an overall perspective of the main elements that must be evaluated in preparation for formulation of a treatment program. (Author/RK)

Differences in how the two hemispheres of the brain handle spatial information were studied with blind subjects and blindfolded sighted subjects. The performances of all groups declined as the relative disorientation between the target and its duplicate increased, suggesting that visual imagery is not crucial to mental rotation. (Author/SEW)