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Peer reviewedWalsh, John F.; D'Angelo, Rita – Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1971
Descriptors: Child Development, Cognitive Development, Disadvantaged, Discrimination Learning
Download full textSouth Central Region Educational Lab. Corp., Little Rock, AR. – 1969
This manual evaluates and describes an educational day care model after 1 year of development. The model was designed for 3- and 5-year-old disadvantaged youngsters who exhibit low scores on intelligence, linguistic, and perceptual tests. Model objectives were based on the following criteria: (1) effectiveness of the curriculum with children, (2)…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Compensatory Education, Curriculum Guides, Day Care
Erickson, Edsel L.; And Others – 1968
This document is the first year's report of a continuing study of the effects of two Head Start preschool experimental programs. Subjects were children from poverty areas in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Seven teachers who were most opposed to a Bereiter-Engelmann type highly academic structured program were assigned to Group I; and seven teachers least…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Cognitive Development, Curriculum, Disadvantaged
VAN DE RIET, VERNON; VAN DE RIET, HANI – 1967
TO IMPROVE THE DEVELOPMENTAL RATE OF CULTURALLY DEPRIVED CHILDREN, A PRESCHOOL PROGRAM WAS OFFERED WHICH CONSISTED OF A PLANNED SEQUENCE OF ENVIRONMENTAL STIMULATION BASED ON THE THEORY THAT COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT PROCEEDS THROUGH MOTOR-PERCEPTUAL-SYMBOLIC PHASES. SEVENTY-TWO DISADVANTAGED CHILDREN WERE DIVIDED INTO THREE MATCHED GROUPS. GROUP A…
Descriptors: Child Development, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Measurement, Developmental Programs
Blank, Marion – 1968
Research has indicated that one significant deficiency in the intellectual capabilities of disadvantaged children is a disability in abstract thinking. Although all very young children lack this ability, the environment of the middle class child provides an opportunity so that as this child matures, the ability to think in abstract terms naturally…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Cognitive Development, Deduction, Disadvantaged
Berger, Barbara – 1969
This research investigates the learning impact of Montessori prekindergarten training as compared to traditional approaches with economically deprived Puerto Rican and Negro children. The three-part, 156-page monograph includes a 22-page introduction to Parts I and II, and a 37-page appendix to Part I. Parts I and II assess training effects of the…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Cognitive Development, Comparative Analysis, Disadvantaged
1968
The Educational Testing Service (ETS) is beginning a comprehensive longitudinal study of the cognitive, personal, and social development of disadvantaged children from age 3 to grade 3. ETS hopes to identify the antecedents of favorable intellectual and social development and to suggest what kinds of educational programs might help to bridge the…
Descriptors: Child Development, Cognitive Development, Disadvantaged, Emotional Development
Educational Testing Service, Princeton, NJ. – 1968
This report is part of a comprehensive study of the cognitive, personal, and social development of disadvantaged children over the crucial period age three through grade three. The aims of the study are to identify the components of early education associated with children's development, to determine the environmental and background factors…
Descriptors: Child Development, Cognitive Development, Community Influence, Disadvantaged
Hillery, Milton C.; And Others – 1969
The purpose of the study was to describe ways in which disadvantaged children differ from their more advantaged peers in the areas of cognitive and affective developmental patterns, and to use this description to restructure curricular experiences for disadvantaged children. Five groups of approximately 30 preschool children each were tested three…
Descriptors: Advantaged, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Measurement, Compensatory Education
Pennsylvania State Dept. of Public Instruction, Harrisburg. – 1966
The purpose of this document is twofold: (1) to describe an experimental parent education program and (2) to describe how such a program will be evaluated. Parents can positively influence preschool children's perceptual, language, and cognitive development with direction. In this project teachers are released in the afternoon to teach parents how…
Descriptors: Administrative Problems, Cognitive Development, Compensatory Education, Curriculum Guides
