The purpose of this article is not to teach anyone how to use a certain word; rather it is to examine the presuppositions, uses, and implications of the concept 'appreciation' in order to make it a more serviceable instrument in educational discussions. (Author/RK)

Age, verbal intelligence, and scores on the Primary Mental Abilities Space Test correlated with various aspects of the understanding of the right-left concept. (Author/RB)

This essay considered the conception and attitude of modern French writers on creativity. (Author/RK)

Discusses experiments testing the adequacy of the common attribute-value representation for knowledge about concepts. (AM)

The present investigation compared three models of learning and generalization of related abstract categories: the prototype, the common feature, and the distinctive feature model. (Editor)

Authors were devoted to the interpretation and elaboration of George Kelly's psychology of personal constructs, which explained total human behavior in terms of the related contexts in which people expect events to occur. Kelly's theory and applications for education and psychotherapy were described. (Editor/RK)

This paper presented a brief explication of R. S. Peters's analysis of the concept of education and of the methodology which he employed in generating that analysis followed by a critical appraisal of his methodology and arguments for and against his analysis. (Author/RK)

When is Open Education educative? When is it open? The authors offer some definitions and suggestions. (Editor)

This article looked briefly at the nature of theory and suggested reasons why we have need of theory in the world of educational practice. (Author/RK)

REPORTED HERE IS A COMPARATIVE-DEVELOPMENTAL ANALYSIS OF TRANSPOSITION AND LEARNING IN YOUNG MENTALLY NORMAL AND MENTALLY SUBNORMAL CHILDREN. THE STUDY ATTEMPTED TO DETERMINE THE EXTENT AND NATURE OF THE LEARNING DEFICIT OF THE MENTALLY RETARDED CHILD. TWO LEARNING TASKS WERE DEVISED TO PERMIT SAMPLING PERFORMANCE ON SUCCESSIVE SERIES OF…

RESEARCH WAS CONDUCTED TO ESTABLISH THE DEGREE OF SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE THAT IS REQUIRED TO UNDERSTAND SCIENCE ARTICLES IN CURRENT NEWSPAPERS AND MAGAZINES. ALL ARTICLES ABOUT SCIENCE OR REQUIRING SCIENCE FOR INTERPRETATION WERE COLLECTED FOR A 6-MONTH PERIOD FROM NINE MAGAZINES AND 22 NEWSPAPERS. TERMS WERE CATEGORIZED AND RELATED TO THE…

The issue of problem awareness and problem definition is discussed in this occasional paper. It is proposed that a problem can be defined as one of four instances of indeterminancy: anomaly, unverified fact, uncharted area, or conflicting evidence; further, for each of these categories, three levels of problems are seen to exist: (1) what…

Studies of concept formation in infancy have demonstrated that certain experimental settings can elicit spontaneous behavior from infants which has been called "sorting" or "object grouping". This study pursues the issue of early sorting with infants as young as 6 months, and with a broader range of stimuli than has been used…