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Peer reviewedPillay, Hitendra; Wilss, Lynn; Boulton-Lewis, Gillian – Mathematics Education Research Journal, 1998
Examines arithmetic and algebra knowledge from a cognitive perspective in an effort to determine what constitutes a pre-algebraic level of understanding. Presents results of a longitudinal study designed to investigate students' readiness for algebra. Proposes a model for the transition from arithmetic to pre-algebra to algebra. Contains 29…
Descriptors: Algebra, Arithmetic, Cognitive Development, Elementary Secondary Education
Download full textVan de Riet, Vernon; Resnick, Michael B. – 1972
This report describes and evaluates a sequential Learning to Learn Program (L.L.P.) for four- and five-year-old children. The long-term plan was for these children to be kept in a continuous sequential program through the first grade. Since another aspect of this project is a systematic attempt to learn how differing lengths of exposure to the…
Descriptors: Classification, Cognitive Development, Compensatory Education, Disadvantaged
COFFMAN, ALICE O.; DUNLAP, JAMES M. – 1967
THE OBJECTIVE FOR THIS STUDY WAS TO FOSTER PREKINDERGARTEN CHILDREN'S DEVELOPMENT THROUGH A PERSONALIZED PROGRAM BASED ON ASSESSMENTS OF EACH CHILD'S DEVELOPMENTAL SKILLS, USING NEW TESTS AND INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS ADAPTED TO INDIVIDUAL NEEDS. OF FOUR EXPERIMENTAL CLASSES, THREE FOCUSED ON AN AREA OF WEAKNESS (MOTOR, AUDITORY-LANGUAGE, OR…
Descriptors: Audiolingual Skills, Auditory Discrimination, Basic Skills, Child Development
Paul, Rhea; And Others – 1993
To examine language outcomes related to language acquisition and academic readiness, this study followed a group of toddlers with slow expressive language development (SELD) through their kindergarten year. Subjects were 27 children between 20 and 34 months who produced fewer than 50 words or no 2-word combinations on L. Resconla's (1989) Language…
Descriptors: Caregiver Speech, Child Development, Child Language, Cognitive Development
Wedell-Monnig, Jacelyn; McNeil, Judy T. – 1980
One of 10 reports in a longitudinal study of Project Head Start submitted by NTS Research Corporation to the Administration for Children, Youth and Families, this document presents the individual testing battery used for the fall 1979 cohort. The first chapter identifies the skill areas to be tested in an analysis of Project Head Start's…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Aptitude Tests, Basic Skills, Child Development
Almy, Millie – 1972
This review of early childhood research examines what has been accomplished in the field and what questions now need to be answered. Project Head Start has had the effect of helping developmental psychology to become more comprehensive and less ethnocentric than previously. Developmental psychologists are now studying infants and toddlers and the…
Descriptors: Child Development, Cognitive Development, Curriculum Development, Developmental Psychology
