Some procedures used for teaching a learning-disabled child are suggested as good teaching practices for the regular classroom. (MP)

Two problems are presented that may be used to determine if a student's understanding of the area concept goes beyond manipulation of formulas. (MP)

The use of the calculator is suggested in teaching algorithms for the four basic operations, in place of any difficult standard algorithm. (MP)

Responsibility Education is a concept designed to restructure and redefine schooling and education to emphasize those attitudes, dispositions, and habits that lead to the development of a sense of responsibility within each individual and the knowledge, skills, judgments, standards and commitments needed by an individual to act responsibly.…

Stating that our present health programs are more producer-oriented than people- or community-oriented, the author outlines major issues in allied health education to respond to new emphases in the health system, regionalism, health personnel overproduction, graduate study and research, and the need to evaluate the allied health education concept.…

The findings of research on personal space have been extended to older adults. Suggestions are provided on how to minimize negative responses of the older adult when in a learning situation. (KC)

Subjects differing in cognitive complexity formed impressions from either (1) three positive and three negative experimenter-selected traits; (2) three traits of each evaluation generated by the subject in a preliminary session; or (3) three experimenter-selected traits of one valence and three subject-generated traits of the opposite valence.…

The use of the Sonicguide and the Laser Cane in concept development programs for blind young adults is examined. (Author/SBH)

Discusses the fraction system developed by the ancient Egyptians. Includes puzzles and number-theory problems. (MA)

Attempts "to look through the microscope" to try to understand how consciousness--or mind--comes into existence. And with mind, how language, the notion of truth, logic, mathematics and the sciences have come into the world. (Author/RK)

In an attempt to assess the validity of the distinction between episodic and semantic memory, this research examined the influence of two variables on sentence verification (presumably a semantic memory task) and sentence recognition (presumably an episodic memory task). ( Editor)

Discusses what is meant by the word "craftsmanship" and suggests that it must be re-evaluated from the traditional concept teachers have been expounding to develop a new conceptual framework more closely allied with the industrial technical society of today. (Editor/TA)

Examines how children react to certain aspects of traditional language, the implications of current findings in language research, and what is happening in the "real world" with respect to language changes. (Author/RK)

A program designed to test the visual literacy of fourth grade students was described. Its basic purpose was to provide many experiences in which children must arrive at evaluative decisions, make comparisons, and use their imaginations. (Author/RK)