Article presented an analytical summary of some of the main features of lifelong education (and the process of lifelong learning which it presumably facilitates), together with some critical review. (Author/RK)

This paper suggests teaching techniques which utilize relevancy to help make learning facts and information more effective. Teaching strategies which create a state of conflict within learner are most basic psychological learning processes teachers need to understand and utilize in the classroom. (Author/EK)

The portions of Inequality: A Reassessment of the Effect of Family and Schooling in America (Jencks, et al 1972) concerned with inequality in cognitive skills and estimating the heritability of IQ scores are reviewed. For related articles see TM 501 196-200. (MLP)

Ways in which parents, the media and commercial educational materials contribute to the development of erroneous number concepts in pre-school children are identified. Cautions against these practices are suggested which include the use of more than one set of numerals for representing numbers. (JP)

Presents one educator's opinion concerning the need to think carefully before deciding to teach science to streamed groups of students (Sectioned on the basis of intelligence test scores) or to individualize science content for students in schools in the United Kingdom. (PEB)

Article sought to look at the evidence for educational deprivation and to examine the theory in regard to language acquisition. (Author/RK)

Children, 24-36 months old, were studied in an effort to examine the influence of cognitive development on the nature of information extracted from stimuli and coded into memory. (ST)

In this study, two cognitive-psychomotor tasks (dry mounting and laminating) were programed and a hardware delivery system, featuring an auto-program stop and slide synchronization capability, was developed and tested. (Author)

"More" and "less" were analyzed into two meaning dimensions, "occurence" and "quantity", which were hypothesized to be developmentally related to acts of addition and subtraction. (SBT)

Problems of teaching low achievers are discussed, based on the author's own experiences. A knowledge of each individual child is deemed essential and questions to ask when considering a topic for inclusion in the curriculum are suggested. Motivation, discussion, repetition, and the teaching of concepts are discussed. (LS)

This paper reviews recent theoretical developments and empirical findings in the area of the development of word knowledge in children. Advances in both linguistic and cognitive theory are described and synthesized, and children's word knowledge at various stages of development is outlined. The point is made that asking meaningful questions about…

The ability of 3-, 4-, and 5-year-old children to infer the position of an object in a room from information contained on a map was assessed under five conditions: (1) map aligned inside the room (the pretest); (2) map aligned outside the room; (3) map rotated 180 degrees inside the room; (4) map rotated 180 degrees outside the room; (5) map held…

This study attempted to determine the functional components of rehearsal strategies in children's discrimination learning. When a discrimination list was given without rehearsal instructions, ability to discriminate situational frequencies predicted performance. Without rehearsal strategy, subjects' ability to discriminate between previous usage…