Suggests that to promote concentration, teachers must put active "thinking" ways of reading into the hands of students. (FL)

Reviews what is known and not known about three questions in comparative ethics: What are the ideas and concepts associated with moral thinking in normal Western adults? What are the processes resulting in a judgment that something is a vice or a virtue? Are those ideas, concepts, and processes available in different cultures and at different…

The development and use of a taxonomy for describing the way distance students plan work and use course materials to complete mathematics exercises is detailed. The taxonomy was developed from an exploratory study but the initial results are viewed as having implications for educational use in many situations. (Author/MP)

Discusses an alternative approach to intelligence tests as a measure of intelligence. The approach is based on three classes of performance dealing with a person's choice of an internal representation for a problem, strategies for manipulating the representation, and abilities to execute elementary information processing steps required by the…

Examines beliefs and attitudes that are barriers to some Christians' acceptance of the concept of assertion in their lives. Suggests that many Christians are reluctant to endorse the clinical and experimental use of assertion training, believing that assertive behavior is inconsistent with Biblical teachings. (PAS)

Counseling and other areas of education base their practices upon accepted theories of how human minds function. As scientists alter theories to reflect new knowledge, counselors must review practices to ensure that techniques have not become obsolete. (Author/SK)

Examined how attitudes about the elderly are influenced by the procedural context in which attitude expression is assessed. Administered questionnaire evaluative attitude statements to 263 adults in two judgmental contexts. Found adults in the comparative context expressed more extreme negative attitudes than in the isolated context. (Author/RC)

Three experiments employed rectangles in stimulus identification tasks. It was concluded that the initial perceptual processing of rectangles is accomplished by separate dimensional analyzers operating in parallel. Observers adopt different decision strategies for negatively correlated sets and for single dimension sets when the number of…

A framework for analyzing the social organization of education in nonclassroom environments is developed, based on observations of students in an experiential learning program. The argument is made that the process of education must be understood by the effect of the broader social context in which it occurs. (Author/SK)

Tested 61 randomly selected college students to determine whether methodologies employed in psycholinguistic investigation of sentence perception can be used to ascertain how screen media communicate. The paralinguistic techniques were not transferable to the examination of visual perception. More than 60 references are listed. (FM)

Questions to stimulate discussion around five articles in the May-June 1981 issue of "Health Education" (v12 n3) are listed. (CJ)

Hypothesized that a significant positive correlation exists between cognitive backlog, or unassimilated material, and receiver apprehension. Results confirmed the hypothesis. (PD)

A new kind of intelligence test is discussed, the Kaufman Assessment Battery for Children (KABC). It is felt those who think mental measurement should tell how a child will perform will not like the KABC, while it, more than any other test, allows children of different backgrounds to do equally well. (MP)

Eight-year-old children were trained on length or weight relationships between adjacent members of a five-item series of colored objects. Visual feedback was provided. Results indicated more salient visual feedback reduced learning effort for length but not for weight comparisons. Encoding differences found in another experiment were used to…

Four experiments examined the "distinctiveness of encoding" hypothesis with respect to recall of text materials. Specifically, they investigated: (1) recall of distinctively versus nondistinctively encoded material; (2) readers' interactions with the semantic base of the text; (3) encoding and recall of semantic content; and (4) the role…