I CARE VOLUNTEERS

I CARE is looking for volunteers to tutor adults in basic reading

- and writing skills. Anyone who is interested in volunteering is
asked to attend an Information Meeting on Thursday, Oct. 4 at 7 p.m.
in room 415 on the Surrey Campus. If you cannot attend the meeting,
but are still interested, please call Susan Day at 525-9211, Local 53.

eee. Susan Day

LOW-COST CAR REPAIRS

Need to have your car fixed? We can do it for you at the Newton
Centre of Surrey Campus.- We do engine overhauls, ring jobs and valve
jobs on any make or model, foreign or domestic, built since 1967.
All work is guaranteed for three months or 6,000 miles. The price

is right as there is no charge for labour. For a free estimate call
Manfred Baur, 591-1111. Loc. 30, Mondays or Penne from 2 p.m.
to 2:30" p.m.

STUDY ON LEARNING

A team of Simon Fraser University researchers has been awarded
$1,000,000 by the U.S. National Institute of Education for a
three-year study of one of the most intriguing problems in ed-
ucation - how do students learn? In addition, educational psych-
ologists Dr. Ronald W. Marx and Dr. Philip H. Winne will use the -
grant to attempt to discover how students decide, from the material
presented to them, what to learn.

Marx and Winne, members of the Simon Fraser University Faculty of
Education, have formulated a series of hypothese regarding the
inconsistency of learning in classrooms.

"If a teacher Says to a class, 'this is important', it is almost
certain that the students will somehow emphasize that material.
But despite the fact they have been warned it is significant,
despite the fact they have made notes on it or marked it in some
special way as important, despite the fact they themselves can
tell you it will likely be on an exam, some students will either
fail to learn it or learn it either incorrectly or incompletely."

Marx and Winne hope to discover why this happens and search for
clues to a method of teaching that will overcome the problem.

One of the major problems encountered by Marx and Winne is that
theories of learning are ‘ecologically invalid' as theories of
teaching. "Learners' attempts to deal with instruction have been
relatively ignored in formulating principles of teaching", they say.

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