Article discussed "Social Development in Young Children: A Report for Teachers," an interpretive research report that suggested ways to promote constructive social behavior among children aged three to eight. (Author/RK)

One hundred and eight 12-year-old children recalled words from sentences they had rated as producing bizarre images significantly better than they recalled the same words from sentences rated as producing ordinary images. A tentative explanation is offered in terms of a cognitive approach to perception itself. (Editor/RK)

This study examined those characteristics of a sequence to which children respond when they are presented with partially learnable sequences followed by a series of trials on which all responses are correct. (Author/RK)

The present experiment investigated memory attribute dominance in young children by measuring false recognition responses to associatively and acoustically related words. Second- and sixth-grade children, half of whom were high SES and half low SES, served as subjects. Following Underwood (1969), a shift from acoustic to associative memory…

The history of basic research in the area of memory development is briefly reviewed as part of an attempt to illustrate how basic research can inform educational practice. The historical overview is supplemented by more detailed consideration of a few prototypical research studies. This is followed by a description of the progress, problems, and…

Mathematics in the primary schools is discussed. This bulletin puts forth some suggestions to assist individual teachers in reaching their own decisions about changes and developments in the curriculum. The bulletin is divided into nine chapters. Two factors described in Chapter 1 and 2 support views expressed in the introduction. First, the…