ABSTRACT
The practical principles of learning distilled from psychological learning theory were, the need for the student to be actively involved, suitably motivated, the need to relate new work to existing knowledge and for the student to be able to evaluate his progress continuously. Many students expressed a liking for this self-teaching system, and this combined with the results would indicate that the method was both supplying effective help to the students and being recognised as being helpful. The system which evolved was based on the findings from the system from a number of other experiments performed at the University of Surrey and from certain practical constraints imposed by the existing course. The use of self-tests, the library records, questionnaires, and the results of the end-of-course examinations enabled the author to test a number of the questions and also to obtain information on student reaction to the system and to examine their study habits in relation to the materials provided.
