“…Monitoring the outcomes of these changes on staff and students began in 1986, and inservice programs for teachers and curriculum development based on the MS Learning Cycle commenced soon after. Developments during the period 1985-1988 have been described in detail elsewhere (Boylan, 1988(Boylan, , 1989 Boylan, Francis, Hawthorne, Hill, Redden, & Wells, 1986;Boylan, Tuovinen, & Wallace, 1989;Francis, 1987;Francis, Hill, Bailey, & Boylan, 1988;Francis & Hill, 1989a;Hill, 1988;Hill & Francis, 1989;Hill, Redden, Francis, Baker, & Spikier, 1986;Hill, Boylan, Francis, & Bailey, 1987;Redden, 1987Redden, , 1988. These developments included an experimental study of the cognitive outcomes of using the MS Learning Cycle, a critical review of the literature relating to learning cycles, descriptions of the ways in which the MS Learning Cycle had been used, and reports of associated action research.…”