The primary purpose of this research was to investigate the short- and long-term retention effects resulting from training students to organize and to classify information to be acquired. (Author)

While a previous study has shown that requiring a criterion of mastery in a hierarchically related discipline, i.e., Physics, leads to improved transfer, it is not known whether a greater knowledge of prerequisites in a less hierarchically related discipline, i.e., Religion, leads to improved transfer. Article investigated the differences in…

The effects of success, failure, and combined success and failure experiences on three types of persistent behavior were investigated. (Editor)

The present study was an attempt to investigate the effects of two factors - number of defining attributes and the degree to which a student has learned those attributes (level of conceptualization) - on the difficulty of a concept. (Author)

This study was completed to determine whether efficiency in concept attainment can be increased as a function of the interaction of the use of good negative instances and increased attention defined in terms of risk conditions. (Author)

This study examined the relationship of childrens' racial prejudice to child's race, interracial contact, grade, sex, intelligence, locus of control, anxiety, and self-concept. Five facets of racial prejudice were examined: a total index of racial prejudice, dating and marriage, school, social relationships, and racial interactions in restaurants.…

Elementary and secondary school teachers were trained to generate effective instructional systems which provided for a greater number of individual students. There was a significant decrease in both the number of students exhibiting inattention and in the mean amount of inattention displayed by students of experimental teachers. (Author/GDC)