The effects of verbal analogies and quantitative and verbal aptitudes on comprehension and memory of a technical text were studied. In a cued recall test, the presence of an analogy decreased the performance of high quantitative aptitude university students and tended to increase the performance of low quantitative aptitude students. In a…

This report contains brief descriptions of 37 published and unpublished works and ongoing studies produced by a project designed to investigate the ways in which both children and adults comprehend and remember connected discourse. Among the topics of the published works, which include articles, book chapters, and a book, are the following: story…

A BOOKLET DESIGNED FOR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL STUDENTS TO BE USED INDEPENDENTLY FROM AND IN ADDITION TO THE REGULAR CLASSROOM CURRICULUM IN MATHEMATICS IS PRESENTED. THE PURPOSE IS TO TEACH THE FIFTH- OR SIXTH-GRADE STUDENT TO USE GOOD JUDGMENT AND REASONING IN LOCATING THE DECIMAL POINT. A DISCUSSION OF THE PURPOSE AND IMPORTANCE OF BEING ABLE,…

THE RESEARCH OF LOVELL AND PIAGET IS CITED IN A DISCUSSION OF CONCEPT LEARNING IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL STUDENTS. FOLLOWING AN INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER ON CONCEPT FORMATION, THREE CHAPTERS ARE DEVOTED TO NUMBER CONCEPTS AND TO THE APPROACHES OF TEACHING THE NUMBER CONCEPTS OF STERN, CUISENAIRE AND GATTEGNO, PIAGET, AND DIENES. THE NEXT FOUR CHAPTERS DEAL…

THIS VOLUME IS A COLLECTION OF EIGHT PAPERS DEALING WITH ASPECTS OF TEACHING PHYSICS TO RUSSIAN STUDENTS IN GRADES FIVE THROUGH ELEVEN. TOPICS OF PAPERS ARE (1) THE PRESENT SITUATION IN THE METHOD OF HIGH-SCHOOL PHYSICS AND ITS BEARING ON THE POLYTECHNICAL INSTRUCTION SYSTEM, (2) THE DEVELOPMENT OF RATIONAL THOUGHT IN STUDENTS DURING THE TEACHING…

IT IS SUGGESTED THAT THE CONCEPTS OF THE WORLD MUST BE PRESENTED TO YOUNG CHILDREN IN A DYNAMIC AND TANGIBLE WAY. THE WRITER SPEAKS OF THE SCHOOL AS A COMMUNITY OF MEN IN MICROCOSM. THE ACQUISITION OF THE TOOLS OF LEARNING, THE UNDERSTANDING OF THE SYMBOLISM IN OUR CULTURE, THE PROCESSES OF ABSTRACT LEARNING AND MEANING, AND THE UNDERSTANDING OF…

THE 1ST YEAR OF OPERATION OF THE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CENTER FOR LEARNING AND RE-EDUCATION AT THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN WAS REVIEWED. BASIC RESEARCH IN CONCEPT LEARNING WAS CONDUCTED BY MEANS OF LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS AND COMPUTER SIMULATION. CONCEPT LEARNING IN THE SUBJECT AREAS OF MATHEMATICS, ENGLISH COMPOSITION, SCIENCE, SPEECH, AND…

A REPORT ON IMPLICATIONS FOR FUTURE RESEARCH ACTIVITY TO BE SPONSORED BY THE U.S. OFFICE OF EDUCATION WAS PREPARED AS AN ADDENDUM TO THE CHAIRMAN'S REPORT OF THE WOODS HOLE CONFERENCE ON FUNDAMENTAL PROCESSES IN EDUCATION, HELD UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES DURING SEPTEMBER 1959. IMPLICATIONS FOR FUTURE RESEARCH WERE…

This first in a series of seven related teaching guides that together outline a public school district's English language arts curriculum for kindergarten through grade six focuses on a course of study for kindergarten. The guide explains the district's overall philosophy and teaching goals and the philosophy behind the development of the…

A study investigated whether children could be sensitized to structural aspects of narratives and whether reading comprehension could be enhanced through instruction designed to develop concept of story. Twenty fourth grade students with a poorly developed concept of story were assigned to either a control or an experimental group. The…

The term, "schema," used largely as a descriptive convenience rather than a theoretical guidepost in social psychology is examined through an analysis of its development, function, and structure. This paper articulates a model of schema development in adults by defining a schema as a representation of some stimulus domain and a set of…

Questioning as an after-reading activity is not sufficient alone as a strategy to develop reading comprehension. This paper presents instructional strategies to support comprehension throughout a student's particular reading encounter. Included are four strategies which involve students: (1) have students specify content expectancies in a variety…

Two experiments explored whether the facilitatory effect of context on lexical decisions is limited to words subjects generated when given the context as a prompt in a production task, or if the effect is wider in scope. The first experiment provided evidence of a wide scope of facilitation from single word contexts. In the second experiment, the…

The paper explores origins of and behavioral science influences on three educational slogans: (1) structure, (2) learning by discovery, and (3) any subject can be taught. These slogans can be traced through four stages. Stage I consisted of practical reform projects of the early 1950s. These projects were marked by a wish to strengthen content and…

Eleven research reports in the area of models of learning mathematics are presented in this publication of the Mathematics Education Reports series. The papers represent a mixture of theories, viewpoints, and references to other areas. Content areas addressed range from preschool to college levels. All the papers are concerned with the learning of…