Results with short-answer essay items suggested that a logical presentation sequence is important, even if sentences have been constructed to be sequence independent. (Authors)

Intelligence variables were found to be good predictors of recall performance at later stages of acquisition under delayed recall, while under immediate recall, memory variables predicted recall performance best at early stages of acquisition. (Authors)

Study was conducted with the purpose of analyzing individual differences in the use of organizing strategies and considering their relationship to performance involving short-term memory. (Author/CB)

Results demonstrate that the relationship between the structure of positive and negative instances within a learning series is also critical to concept learning when the concepts are presented in a nondimensioned way. (Authors/CB)

Results indicated that interaction, even when nonmeaningful, was more facilitating than juxtaposition of picture and words. (Authors)

The present data offer more support for linguistic'' approaches to teaching reading. (Authors)

Results indicated that negative instances were an integral part of concept acquisiton. The relationship between the positive and negative instances was based upon similarity of irrelevant attributes and sentence difficulty. (Author)

It was shown that observation of a high-rewarding teacher was directly related to increased imitative behavior by students. (Author)

Thirty minutes of discrimination training was shown to be highly effective in changing teaching behavior while microteaching, that is, practicing teaching twice, reviewing the lesson on videotape, and receiving feedback, did not result in significant overall changes in teaching behavior. (Author)

Second graders were more competitive than first graders, thus suggesting that maturational factors as well as school experience may result in greater competition among children. (Authors)

Information integration theory is a unified general theory that covers several areas of psychology from psychophysics to clinical judgment. It rests on a mathematical basis that has had considerable success in some precise and demanding tests. (Author)

Relationships between teacher morale, as measured by the Purdue Teacher Opinionaire, and verbal teacher behavior, as systematically observed using the Reciprocal Category System, were explored. Subjects were 39 female elementary (Kindergarten through second grade) teachers in Follow Through classrooms in six states. (Authors)

Major findings were that: contingent reinforcement was effective in altering behavior; instructions did not augment the efficacy of contingent reinforcement; noncontingent reinforcement was effective for nondeviant students who were told that the reinforcement was actually contingent; and contingent reinforcement led to greater generalization than…

The most important result of this study was simply the illustration that the systematic analysis and experimental study of the learning of principles from text is possible. (Author)

Questions that come before the relevant material seem to affect attention only, and questions that come after the relevant material seem to affect retention or rehearsal only. (Author)