Individuals and Learning: The New Aptitudes

In this paper, I propose to show how certain developments in psy-chology have influenced present educational methods, and to show further how recent work in learn-ing theory, developmental psychol-ogy, and psychometrics strongly suggests new directions for educa-tional research and practice. I shall discuss this theme in the context of a central problem in education — the individualization of instruction or, in other terms, adapting educa-tional environments to individual differences. I shall focus on the ed-ucation of the young child in the