Examines the relationship between the development of cognitive processes and the effects of instruction on learning and transfer. The study suggests that instructional treatments should be designed in relation to the child's developing information processing strategies and his previous experience. Subjects were 482 fourth- and fifth-grade…

Readiness to learn occurs when a child has achieved cumulative learning of component subskills and the developmental maturity necessary to integrate these subskills into the desired skill. Readiness is relative, however, not only to the skill, but also to the technique of instruction. Thus, readiness for learning a particular skill by different…

Cognitive developmental learning is a concept expressing the hypothesis that learning has a continuing, cumulative, and transformational function in the development of intelligence. Two important questions are, "How much do we know about methods?" and "What classes of knowledge and abilities should we develop?" An analysis of past investigations,…