Self-questioning, summarizing, and review of lecture notes were compared as strategies for learning from lectures for 56 underprepared college students. Subjects were randomly assigned to self-questioning (19 students), summarizing (19 students), and notetaking-review (18 students) conditions. Self-questioners performed better than summarizers and…

Note-taking functions (encoding, encoding plus storage, and storage) and note-taking techniques (conventional, linear, and matrix) were studied for 96 college undergraduates. Results are explained in relation to repetition, generative processing, note completeness, and the potential of note-taking techniques to facilitate performance. (SLD)

The Stroop effect is psychology's classic measure gauging the selectivity of attention to individual attributes of complex stimuli. The emotional Stroop effect gauges the influence on behavior of threat and emotional stimuli. The former taps central/executive processes abstracted from particular stimulus contexts, whereas the latter taps automatic…

V. M. Sloutsky and A. V. Fisher reported 5 experiments documenting relations among categorization, induction, recognition, and similarity in children as well as adults and proposed a new model of induction, SINC (similarity, induction, categorization). Those authors concluded that induction depends on perceptual similarity rather than conceptual…

At the end of the 18th and the beginning of the 19th century, representatives of the politically oppressed middle class in a politically fragmented Germany began to look to education in search for a means of emancipation, with the pedagogical concept of "Bildung" as their central focus. The attractiveness of the concept was also a…

The Education Commission of the States (ECS) recently conducted analyses, interviews and a survey for a study designed to identify the most pressing early learning issues facing policymakers. The goal was to hear both from those who are faced with making decisions and from those who are on the ground conducting research and developing programs. To…

The purpose of the brief is to help educators, service providers, and local evaluators in schools, intermediary and community-based organizations, and social service agencies become more effective by highlighting the best program and evaluation practices of family-strengthening intervention programs. At a time when evidence-based practice matters,…

Objective: To study the outcomes of children hospitalized for suspected child abuse before and after the implementation of a management protocol in a hospital in Hong Kong. Study period: Two 2-year periods before (1994-1995) and after (2002-2003) the implementation of the protocol in 1998. Methods: This is a retrospective hospital chart review in…

A reorganized version of standards to be utilized for those who are involved with educational evaluation in Brazil was the result of a critical review of evaluation standards which were originally elaborated by the Joint Committee on Standards for Educational Evaluation. The conceptual framework for the critical review comprised logical…

The report of the president of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) to the annual meeting of that organization reviewed progress during the last year toward several goals of the Council. (SD)

The report of the president of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics to the annual meeting of that organization reviewed progress toward several goals of the council during the past year. (SD)

The effect that student ability level has on receiving feedback following classroom tests was studied. Forty-four undergraduates enrolled in four educational psychology classes were assigned to low or high ability groups based on their total score from the first four exams. Two classes were trained in a feedback technique, and the remaining two…

Fifty-three deaf and thirty-three hearing college students observed a videotaped lecture followed by a 15 minute period of reviewing prepared class notes. Two days later, half of each group again reviewed the notes before taking a test measuring learning outcomes in four areas: recall, recognition, concept acquisition, and problem solving.…

Ten review lessons in basic mathematics are presented in this workbook designed for electrical apprentices and vocational students. The lesson topics are numbers (whole, positive, negative), fractions, decimal fractions, finding common denominators, reciprocals, percentage, powers and square roots, ratio and proportion, the circle and its use of…

THE PRESENT AND FUTURE APPLICATIONS OF CERTAIN SCIENTIFIC DEVICES AND THEORIES TO INSTRUCTION IN READING ARE REVIEWED. A NUMBER OF DEVICES BASED ON COMPUTER-ASSISTED INSTRUCTION, INCLUDING THE TALKING TYPEWRITER, ORTHOGRAPHIC ARRANGEMENT, RELATIONSHIP OF WORD LENGTH AND MEANING, LETTER SEQUENCES AND THE RELATIONSHIP TO PRONUNCIATION RULES, AND…