The contents of this report are designed to aid the researcher concerned with concept learning. This publication contains: (1) rationale and strategy for compiling the bibliography, (2) a definition of the word concept, (3) a system for classifying articles by their content, (4) a bibliography of articles dealing with concept learning from 51…

During 1972-73, the Direct Instructional System for Teaching and Remediation (DISTAR) Language I Program, a series of instructional programs developed to teach children the basic skills and concepts in reading, arithmetic, and language, was used in two of the three kindergarten classes at Seymour Elementary School. The three kindergarten classes…

The Test of Concepts in the Direct Instructional System for Teaching and Remediation (DISTAR) is a twenty item pictorial identification which is administered orally and asks the kindergarten child to identify familiar objects, superlatives, status of being, verbs, verb tense, multiple attributes, geometric figures, colors, and spatial…

Using A Programing Language (APL), a "computer glass box" was designed to stimulate students to think about selected concepts as well as to elucidate and reveal understanding. This approach is pedagogically suitable for a wide range of educational levels--from elementary school children to university graduate students. Using APL computer…

The Conceptual Level (CL) matching model describes the differential reaction of students varying in CL to educational environments varying in degree of structure. Models of teaching describe environments systematically varying in structure and therefore provide a specific basis for coordinated investigation of differential effects. The effects of…

Recent theories of concept identification have dealt largely with two-category problems in which the correct classification of a stimulus depends on values of a single binary-valued dimension. Such concept identification problems can be solved by a single trial. Two or more dimensional problems would seem to require more complex methods of…

The study examines definitions of Outdoor Education (OE) and similar terms, and identifies the objectives of such programs in Resident Outdoor Schools to determine their educational purposes. The study is limited to a review of OE literature published between 1968-73 in the U.S. Definitions are those stated by arbitrarily selected people and…

The Western Region AMIDS Evaluation Team examined a variety of approaches to leadership development which would make it possible for adult, business, technical and vocational educators to become knowledgeable in evaluation. The following three intents were specified for the leadership development project: (1) to provide participants with an…

The author emphasizes the importance of imagination in literature for children and suggests that teachers can use books of fantasy and fiction in teaching emotional and creative responses as well as concepts and facts. In particular, the author discusses teaching about temporal and spatial relationships and explains how imaginative books combined…

A homophone is a word having the same pronunciation as another English word, but a different spelling. A list of 7,300 English homophones was compiled and used to construct two tests. Scores were obtained in these and on reference tests for J. P. Guilford's factors CMU, CSU, DMU, and DSU for 70 native speakers of midwestern American English from a…

GRADES OR AGES: Grade 9. SUBJECT MATTER: United States history. ORGANIZATION AND PHYSICAL APPEARANCE: The conceptual approach forms the basis for each of four sections: Defining and Implementing a Conceptual Approach to Teaching Social Studies; Social Studies Skills To Be Developed and Reinforced by the Learner; Classroom Curriculum Planning; and…

The purpose of this study is to determine the effects of varying pictorial detail and presentation strategy on learners of varying grade levels in a visually transmitted concept formation task. Specifically, line drawings containing only relevant details and halftones containing relevant and irrelevant detail were presented successively and…

This report describes seven basic experiments designed to further elucidate the nature and function of two types of organization imposed by subjects in a free-recall type of memory task. The experiments involved verbal stimulus materials and employed college students as subjects. The two types of organization investigated were category clustering,…

This study investigates the association between teacher conceptual level and teacher behavior and attitudes in a minimally-structured type learning activity. A sample was selected from a pool of student teachers in the elementary teacher training program at Syracuse University. Each was given a lesson which was an episode from a simulation…

RESEARCH REPORTED HERE WAS DESIGNED TO DETERMINE THE EFFECTS OF INDUCTIVE, DEDUCTIVE, AND INTUITIVE APPROACHES FOR TEACHING SELECTED GEOGRAPHIC CONCEPTS. THE EXPERIMENT WAS CONDUCTED IN A CULTURALLY ADVANTAGED PRIMARY SCHOOL ENVIRONMENT USING INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS AND A CRITERION PRETEST AND POST-TEST. THE MATERIALS AND TESTS WERE DEVELOPED…