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Goldman, Susan R. – 1979
This study investigates age differences in children's semantic expectations regarding causal relations in stories about three realistic goal situations (being friendly, getting a dog, and doing chores). Twenty children at each of three age levels (ages 6, 9, and 12) were asked to produce stories and answer probe questions about wanting and not…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Children, Comprehension, Expectation
Download full textRohwer, William D., Jr. – 1977
This discussion uses the topics imagery and elaboration as vehicles for speculating about the psychological character of knowledge, about its relationships with learning and development, and about its implications for education. In brief, the argument presented suggests that elaboration facilitates learning, that such facilitation signifies an…
Descriptors: Educational Needs, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Imagery
Pace, Ann Jaffe – 1978
The relationship between children's knowledge of particular situations and their comprehension of stories about them was investigated. Children in kindergarten and grades two, four, and six heard stories about differentially familiar situations and then answered questions. "Scripts," characterizing knowledge about stereotypical events, were…
Descriptors: Child Development, Cognitive Processes, Comprehension, Context Clues
Gonzalez, Virginia – 1993
A study investigated the attitudes of teachers in graduate-level inservice education concerning multicultural education. Subjects were 55 students aged 20-55 in a graduate-level multicultural education class. Three surveys with open-ended questions elicited information about personal educational background (including gender factors influencing…
Descriptors: Developmental Stages, Educational Attitudes, Elementary Secondary Education, Graduate Study
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This document consists of three papers presented at a symposium on expertise in organizations moderated by Ross Azevedo at the 1996 conference of the Academy of Human Resource Development (AHRD). "How Individual Expertise May Be Socially Constructed: A Literature Review" (Abney V. Gleespen) looks at the research to determine the…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Goal Orientation, Helping Relationship, Human Resources
Oja, Sharon Nodie – 1990
This paper reports research from four studies of how teachers come to learn professional knowledge based on theoretical frameworks of the developmental theories of Piaget (cognitive development), Kohlberg (moral development), Loevinger (ego development), and Hunt (conceptual development). Studies proceed on the assumption that a perspective of…
Descriptors: Action Research, Adult Learning, Concept Formation, Developmental Psychology
