BORKOWSKI, JOHN G.; LEVERS, SANDRA; and GRUENENFELDER, THOMAS M. Transfer of Mediational Strategies in Children: The Role of Activity and Awareness during Strategy Acquisition. CHILD DEVELOPMENT, 1976, 47, 779-786. The ability of nursery school and first-grade children to learn and transfer a mediational strategy utilizing prepositional relationships between paired-associate objects was investigated under several strategy training conditions: passive observation, active manipulation of objects, active manipulation combined with viewing a film portraying the strategy's effectiveness, and a nonmediation control. The 2 important factors determining the extent of strategy transfer were active participation during strategy acquisition and, for the first graders, an awareness of the strategy's usefulness. 84% of the children who spontaneously manipulated the object pairs on the first trial of the transfer task showed perfect strategy transfer.