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Download full textILIKA, JOSEPH – 1968
THIS INVESTIGATION WAS DESIGNED TO ASSESS THE INFLUENCE OF AGE OF ENTRANCE INTO THE FIRST GRADE ON ARITHMETIC ACHIEVEMENT. THE SCORES ON ARITHMETIC ACHIEVEMENT TESTS WERE COMPARED FOR 378 LATE AND EARLY ENTRANT BOYS AND GIRLS IN THE FIRST TO SIXTH GRADES. THE LATE ENTRANTS WERE BETWEEN 8 AND 9 MONTHS OLDER THAN THE EARLY ENTRANTS. THEORETICALLY,…
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Academic Achievement, Achievement Rating, Age Differences
Eckhoff, Eva; And Others – Acta Psychologica, European Journal of Psychology, 1961
Research on the acquisition of sex roles in the United States has indicated a tendency for parents to treat girls less harshly than boys and for fathers to treat girls with more special warmth than they do boys. Eighteen children and their parents were interviewed and observed in Oslo, Norway, as part of a longitudinal study of parental influence…
Descriptors: Child Development, Child Rearing, Child Role, Early Experience
Meyer, William J. – 1977
This review of research literature explores the possible harmful effects of day care programs on children's health and physical development, motor development, cognitive development, and social and emotional development, and suggests how variations in staff/child ratios may influence these effects. Two broad categories of conditions are identified…
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Child Caregivers, Child Development, Child Neglect
Huntington, Dorothy S.; And Others – 1977
Reported are the recommendations resulting from a review of the Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnosis, and Treatment Program (EPSDT). The concept of developmental assessment, as used in the EPSDT, is explained. The introduction provides a summary of the recommendations. Areas covered and for which recommendations are discussed include the role…
Descriptors: Child Development, Clinical Diagnosis, Cost Effectiveness, Delivery Systems
Collins, W. Andrew; And Others – 1974
Three studies examine the impact of different types of television content on the social behavior of children at various ages. The studies represent research into the interrelated problem of the processes involved in media effects and age-related differences. In the first study an action-adventure program, in which a character's reputation and…
Descriptors: Aggression, Antisocial Behavior, Behavior Patterns, Behavioral Science Research
Feldhusen, John; McDaniel, Ernest D. – 1974
This paper focuses on the theory and rationale of assessing the social behavior of children. It is asserted that child social behavior must be assessed accurately in order to do research on socialization. Socialization is defined as the process by which an individual learns to interact with others. It is proposed that it is possible to design a…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Behavior Patterns, Behavior Rating Scales, Child Development
Asher, Steven R. – Proceedings, 80th Annual Convention, APA, 1972, 1972
Research was conducted to determine the degree to which sampling vs. comparison processes account for age changes in referential communication. Children at three different grade levels communicated referents within related and unrelated word pairs. The word pairs used were from Cohen and Klein (1968). From their list of 30 related pairs, half were…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Analysis of Variance, Associative Learning, Child Development
Washington Univ., Seattle. Child Development and Mental Retardation Center. – 1974
The bibliography contains approximately 170 listings (all published in 1973-74) of books, professional articles, films, slides, and videotapes as well as working papers and unpublished manuscripts by staff members of the Experimental Education Unit of the Child Development and Mental Retardation Center at the University of Washington. Listings are…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Bibliographies, Child Development, Classroom Techniques
Montgomery County Public Schools, Rockville, MD. – 1967
Emphasizing successful reading instruction as a nonrepetitive, creative process which provides the child with both challenge and opportunities for success, units in this handbook focus on the child as an individual--his behavior, his maturity, and his capacities for understanding, learning, and creating. Each of the 10 units provides teaching…
Descriptors: Child Development, Childhood Attitudes, Childhood Interests, Childhood Needs
Vigo County School Corp., Terre Haute, IN. – 1970
Developed to aid children with learning difficulties, from mental retardation or brain injury to maladjustment or physical or environmental handicaps, the joint school services program provides psychological evaluation and prescription development. The handbook reviews theories of child development and surveys behavior modification and…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Ancillary School Services, Behavior Change, Child Development
Sapir, Selma G., Ed.; Nitzburg, Ann C., Ed. – 1973
This comprehensive volume presents selected articles representing the major viewpoints on learning problems in children. Specialized practitioners in the fields of special education, psychology, psychiatry, and social work are encouraged to reject a narrow, limited perspective, and to view the child with a learning problem as a single, constantly…
Descriptors: Biological Influences, Child Development, Developmental Psychology, Educational Diagnosis
Educational Development Corp., Austin, TX. – 1973
This context analysis study examines the present conditions in early childhood education and development to determine the state of the art. On the basis of literature reviews, personal and telephone interviews, and information gathered from a conference of educational practitioners in various fields, early childhood education needs are defined.…
Descriptors: Child Development, Childhood Needs, Day Care, Early Childhood Education
National Planning Association, Washington, DC. – 1973
This report contains a partial summary of the findings and recommendations resulting from research of the Child Development Associate (CDA) Training Program performed by the National Planning Association (NPA). A brief overview of the following areas is presented: (1) demand and supply of trained personnel in child development programs; (2) issues…
Descriptors: Agency Role, Child Caregivers, Child Development, Cost Effectiveness
New York State Education Dept., Albany. Bureau of Reading Education. – 1974
Developed and coordinated by the Bureau of Reading Education of the New York State Education Department, Project Alert is a statewide inservice program to facilitate instituting or improving the diagnostic-prescriptive approach to reading instruction. As part of this program, a reading resource kit was prepared by the Bureau to give structure and…
Descriptors: Child Development, Early Childhood Education, Elementary Education, Individualized Reading
Wilds, Thomas, Comp. – 1973
The directory contains over 265 annotated listings of audiovisual professional training materials related to the education and care of preschool handicapped children. Noted in the introduction are sources of the contents, such as lists of audiovisual materials disseminated by a hearing/speech center, and instructions for use of the directory.…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Annotated Bibliographies, Audiovisual Aids, Child Development
