2: Research on Aptitude for Learning: A Progress Report

Abstract

Individual differences among learners constitute an important class of variables for research on instruction. Their study has been of interest at least since Binet, because measures of these variables, often called aptitudes, usually predict learning outcome. There is renewed interest in this fact today because aptitudes now often appear to interact with instructional conditions, i.e., to relate differently to learning outcome under different instructional treatments. Practical interest stems from the possibility that such interactions can be used to adapt instruction to fit different learners optimally. Such interactions are of theoretical interest because they demonstrate construct validity for aptitude and learning measures in a new way, and they raise the possibility that common processes underlie both kinds of variables. They suggest that neither aptitude constructs nor learning processes can be fully understood without reference to the other.

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