Classroom teachers need to understand the broad differences that exist between a child's perception of death and that of an adult and should be prepared to confront and cope with the effects of death and grief upon students. Children's perceptions of death and ways in which the teacher can help the child with his grief are described. (JN)

Describes a method for students to evaluate and experience a repetition of important physics concepts during regular lecture sessions. The major goal was to train students to focus attention on course materials. (SK)

The ability of children between the ages of two years and four years, eight months, to produce locative pre- or postpositions was investigated in English, Italian, Serbocroatian, and Turkish to discover universals of conceptual and communicative development. (Author/AM)

The combination of the creative and technical aspects of research is illustrated by the methodologies used in three research projects: research on building design in relation to climate, environmental physiology, and utilization of natural energy for the heating and cooling of buildings. (JMF)

This article recounts the struggles of an educator as she tries to understand the nature of mathematics. (MK)

A general theory of how children learn conservation concepts is presented. The acquisition process is described at an abstract level in terms of a rule-sampling system, implying a three-state Markov model with identifiable parameters. Three experiments testing the model's quantitative predictions about conservation learning experiments are…

Investigates some conceptual difficulties which college students have with regard to simple direct current circuits. The clinical interview technique was used with 57 students in a freshman level engineering course. (HM)

The effect on student attainment of the number of moves in a concept teaching venture is examined. Results suggest the number of moves in short ventures had little effect on attainment of mathematical concepts. However, performance increased as the number of moves in longer ventures increased. (Author/MK)

The rule assessment approach was used to examine five-, eight-, eleven-, and twenty-year-olds' concepts of time, speed, and distance. (CM)

Examines how social studies and history teachers can help students understand the intellectual origins of German Nazism during World War II. Suggests discussion questions and learning activities. (Author/DB)

An attempt is made to establish a link between ordinary arithmetical situations and relevant mathematical concepts by the analyzing of complexity of concepts. (MP)

Misconceptions and abuses of manipulative aids for teaching mathematics are discussed, as well as suggestions for their more effective use. (JMF)

Describes preparation and implementation of a data analysis and card-sorting activity to help junior high and high school students use categories on a continuum to determine the power, status, and roles of men and women in India. (CK)

This review of the concept learning literature indicates that the greater effectiveness of field-independent learners is related to memory efficiency and the ability to conduct combinatorial analysis. Short-term memory and free recall studies suggest factors contributing to the less efficient memory of field-dependent learners. (Editor/SJL)

An integrated model of instructional environmental design and instructional procedures development is discussed and applied to a concept lesson with six moderately and severely retarded males (seven to eight years old). (CL)