College students read passages and answered either verbatim or parphrased adjunct questions either inserted in the text or massed at the end of the passage. Passage review was varied. On the post-test containing unfamiliar paraphrased questions, students given inserted paraphrased adjunct questions outperformed the others. Paraphrased questions…

Reviews the literature on student notetaking and review behaviors and the effects of these behaviors on academic achievement. Ten factors that may constrain notetaking and review are presented, and their implications for improving study skills and conducting further research are discussed. (Author/CLB)

Four levels of notetaking (summary, paraphrase, verbatim, and letter search) were used to control depth of processing of a prose passage with high school students, who then either reviewed their notes or read an interpolated text. Results favored groups with deeper levels of processing on two post-tests. (Author/RD)

Three groups of university students read a passage with a beginning summary, an end summary, or no summary at all. Results showed that the end summary led to significantly better recall scores. Further research is suggested, using different types of summaries and texts, and different methods of recall. (Author/SJL)

A game with a flexible format that can be used at any grade level and with almost any content is described. The game can be used to provide diagnostic information to the teacher, practice, review, or reinforcement. (MK)

Reviewing training and performance support materials ensures quality and builds the developer's skills. Examines the review process, reviewing to build skills, self-reviewing, technological aids, and feedback; provides guidelines for reviewers and developers; and suggests techniques for development improvement. Outlines suggested review stages and…

Identifies and summarizes important research in modern cognitive psychology that has implications for the design of computer drill and practice programs in education. Highlights include automaticity of subskills; interference present in a learning task; spacing of practice sessions; spaced review; capacity of short-term memory; and representation…

This article reviews research on the spacing effect (SE): the tendency, given an amount of study time, for spaced presentations of a unit of information to yield much better learning than massed presentations. SE's current status in the classroom and its implications for teacher education are discussed. (IAH)

A theory of how people detect and correct their own performance errors during skill practice is proposed. Blame assignment, error attribution, and knowledge revision are identified as three cognitive functions in explaining error correction. The theory is embodied in a computer model that learns cognitive skills in ecologically valid domains. (SLD)

The Draw a Person: Screening Procedures for Emotional Disturbance (DAP:SPED) is a projective technique used in the initial assessment of children suffering from emotional problems, and unlike most projective techniques, features sound psychometric development. (Author)

Argues that increased student self-assessment accuracy might result in better academic performance by allowing students to modify their exam preparation more realistically. Uses an experiment with practice examinations to demonstrate the causal link between more accurate self-assessment and performance. Notes implications for the construction of…

This article chronicles the contributions of Enrique (Henry) Trueba to the field of educational anthropology, highlighting his emergence as one of the foremost critical ethnographers of his time, his collaborative manner of working, mentorship of colleagues, and "pedagogy of hope." Trueba skillfully combined ideas from Vygotsky, the Spindlers, and…

Since the early nineties, David Novitz and the author have been engaged in an ongoing debate about mass art. The latest installment in that exchange is Novitz's article "The Difficulty with Difficulty" which represents a sustained attack on the conception of mass art advanced in the author's book "A Philosophy of Mass Art." In this article, the…

Purpose: To introduce the concept of diverse career cultures in the education system and to consider how these impact on individual career investment and attempts to modernise the teaching profession internationally. Design/methodology/approach: A life history approach was used to determine the career environment of teachers, setting career…