Demonstrated how individual differences in semantic differential data can be modeled and assessed using three-mode models by studying the characterization of Chopin's "Preludes" by 38 Japanese college students. (SLD)

Explains adaptive hypermedia, provides a brief overview of adaptive navigation support techniques in educational hypermedia systems, and analyzes the results of most representative empirical studies. Demonstrates the importance of context and knowledge levels of the users and suggests that meta-adaptive hypermedia systems should be the next step.…

Explores the nature of psychological distance in distance learning and identifies student support issues. Presents initial findings from a pilot study at the University of Plymouth (United Kingdom) comparing the experiences of remote and local students, including gender issues, individual differences in approaches to study, and expectations.…

Offers a brief overview of the field of individual differences in language learning, especially as they are reflected in learning styles, learning strategies, and affective variables. Touches on areas for further research. (Author/VWL)

Explored developmental regulation in adults at different ages. Assessed developmental goals, expectations about goal attainment and control, control strategies, life satisfaction, and age identification. Found that, with increasing age, participants expressed increased focus on age-appropriate goals, stronger tendency for compensatory secondary…

Reading style considers how students' learning ability is affected by the reading environment and readers' emotional states, sociological preferences, physical needs, and information-processing style. Teachers can accommodate different styles by providing soft-cushioned seating, dimly lit reading areas, learning centers, varied reading materials,…

Through a literary and philosophical analysis of the poem "Metaphors of a Magnifico" by Wallace Stevens, expresses the need in applied linguistics to address the individual's experience of language. Argues that applied linguistics works with idealized abstractions that sanitize and exclude the "private residue of the individual experience."…

Ethical career assessment of female clients requires global gender sensitivity as well as knowledge of gender issues in the areas of individual differences and career choice process. Whether quantitative or qualitative, informal or formal, assessments and interpretations should be gender sensitive for both men and women. (Contains 79 references.)…

Discusses the contributions of a proposed ecological model of career development to women's career counseling. Urges caution in assuming that the emphases of an ecological model apply to all women, and asserts that the concept of individual differences within the genders must remain paramount in career theory and counseling approaches. (Contains…

Offers reflections on the peer review process, the errors of some reviewers and editors, and recommendations to improve peer review that will increase the quality of science. Discusses issues of review process, the primacy of research results, and the responsibilities of editors. (SLD)

Describes Schools Attuned, a professional development program to help elementary and secondary school teachers understand, recognize, and manage student learning differences in the regular classroom. Includes how the program started in California, program costs, and comments about the program from teachers and administrators. (PKP)

Forty-three residents in internal medicine answered questionnaires about resolving conflicts with attending physicians concerning patient care. Conflicts were most likely to be resolved by negotiation but the nature of the procedure, medical school attended, and future career plans affect the means of resolving the dilemma chosen by the resident.…

Acton (Massachusetts) Public Schools' open enrollment experience shows that a system can develop a common curriculum while allowing individual schools and teachers considerable instructional latitude. Confronting open enrollment pitfalls such as intensified competition, pressures for curriculum standards, and enrollment dilemmas helped this…

Considers six questions relating to effects of parental depression on parent-child interaction and on children's psychological functions. (RH)

Three studies focused on: (1) the definition of structure in a specific domain of knowledge; and (2) the relationship between the ways in which knowledge is structured and the ways in which it is used. Evidence suggested that the knowledge of expert children is structured hierarchically into well-defined families and family-groups. (RH)