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Download full textLove, John M. – 1974
In the High/Scope Cognitively Oriented Curriculum, teachers create an environment in which students develop and apply cognitive capacities in the areas of classification, seriation, spatial and temporal relations and in the process of representation to the widest ranges of materials and subjects. Learning takes place through the child's…
Descriptors: Classroom Observation Techniques, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Measurement, Cognitive Processes
FOSTER, HARRIET – 1966
CERTAIN SYSTEMS FOR CLASSIFYING COGNITIVE FUNCTIONS ARE REVIEWED AND COMPARED IN A DISCUSSION OF GENERALIZING PROCESSES USED FOR EVALUATING INSTRUCTIONAL OUTCOMES. THE AUTHOR STATES THAT THERE ARE TWO IMPORTANT GENERALIZATIONS TO BE MADE IN THE EVALUATION OF INSTRUCTIONAL PROGRAMS--GENERALIZING THE PROGRAM RESULTS AND THE SKILLS OF THE…
Descriptors: Classification, Cognitive Measurement, Cognitive Processes, Comparative Analysis
Metham, John – 1980
This study investigated the potential use of a cognitive measure to detect differential effects on children's styles of performance and behavior. A stratified random sample of 96 children across schools, sex and preschool attendance were selected for testing from the five kindergarten classes associated with the Mt. Druitt Early Childhood Project…
Descriptors: Classification, Cognitive Measurement, Cognitive Processes, Developmental Stages
Butler, John A. – 1974
In past Head Start evaluations, cognitive measures have been weighed heavily. This has not accurately reflected the relative unimportance of cognitive program goals; child performance gains are not an objective with high priority for most Head Start programs. Evaluation planners need to weigh previously encountered measurement problems carefully…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Behavioral Objectives, Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Development
Skeen, Elois M. – 1975
The document reports an outside evaluation of a Niagara Falls Adult Basic Education Program special project entitled "Identification of Preferred Cognitive Styles and Matching Adult Reading Program Alternatives for the 0-4 Grade Levels." It was concerned with (1) research, training in cognitive style mapping, and development of a survey…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Reading Programs, Cognitive Measurement, Cognitive Processes
Epstein, Herman – 1995
Arguing that summaries of 562 studies from 1985 through 1994 reveal that almost no attention is paid to the cognitive effects of Head Start programs, this report criticizes Head Start as being steadily and more generously funded without evidence that it helps children's scholastic achievements. The report criticizes available studies as practicing…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Measurement, Cognitive Processes, Criticism
American Association of State Colleges and Universities, Washington, DC. – 1989
The Maryland Center for Thinking Studies, established at Coppin State College in July 1988, and presented in this report, provides training and resources in the teaching of thinking and fosters research in thinking improvement. When fully operational, the Center will assimilate and contribute to research in cognitive instruction, disseminate the…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Measurement, Cognitive Processes, College Curriculum
