The goals of the Head Start Impact Study (HSIS) are to: (1) determine the impacts of Head Start on children's school readiness and parental practices that support children's development; and (2) to determine under what circumstances Head Start achieves its greatest impacts and for which children (US Department of Health and Human Services, 2010).…

In 1966, Powel Elementary School initiated an ungraded system to discover if this program would meet the needs of its students and community. In 1967-68, an evaluation of this ungraded program was made to determine if the reading and arithmetic performance levels of the students at Powel were higher than those of a matched graded school. An…

The efficacy of a six-week training program for teaching 20 educable mentally retarded elementary children the language skills prerequisite to distinguishing between the relevant and irrelevant features of a task was evaluated. (Author/CL)

Project ABRAZO, 1 of 5 speciality projects funded by the U.S. Office of Education under Title VII of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, was designed to conduct research in areas of cognitive and affective learning generalizable to the 130 operational bilingual programs across the country. ABRAZO's goals were (1) to study the…

Discusses results relating to student achievement with the Science Curriculum Improvement Study program based on Piaget's research on cognitive development. Also discusses results of research relating to social studies curriculum programs and Piagetian-based research studies. Outlines how social studies education would benefit from Piagetian-based…

This 46-item teacher rating form assesses the respondent's knowledge of basic concepts and teaching techniques related to the education of learning disabled children. The respondents are asked to rate their personal understanding of these terms along a five-point scale, ranging from excellent understanding (complete familiarity) to poor…

Investigates classification achievement in Thai and American children as well as children's classification achievement within cultures and across cultures at different age levels. One hundred and twenty American and Thai children from 6 to 11 years of age were randomly selected to participate in this study. (HM)

Students in elementary art programs, designed using Utah's new official art guide "Art Is Elementary," demonstrated significant gains in cognitive achievement compared with students in regular art classes. The new art guide changed the focus of art teaching from a projects approach to an emphasis upon valid art concepts. (RM)

The principal focus of this study was the assessment of mathematics in primary education within Realistic Mathematics Education (RME), a mathematics reform movement begun in The Netherlands in the 1960s. The book that resulted from this study is comprised of seven chapters, the first four of which constitute part 1 and are the core of the work.…

This program, developed for the primary grades, was started in September 1972 with the ultimate goal being the development (sixth-grade students) of citizens knowledgeable and conscientious about environmental concerns. A cadre of specially trained teachers utilized the adapted SCIS materials with emphasis on student planning and involvement,…

At the beginning of the 1970-71 school year, eight ESEA Title I programs were implemented in Community District 23. The eight projects that were basic to the Title I program in District 23 included a Pre-Kindergarten Program, the basic aims of which were the development of language, perceptual, and cognitive skills in young children. A second…

A study comparing the effect of the Distar reading program and the Lippincott Basic Readers on the cognitive and creative development of 136 kindergarten and first grade children. The major difference between these two approaches is degree of teacher control. Only one significant difference was found between the two approaches. (MS)

An elementary-school self-contained gifted class was compared to a control group on a general test of cognitive ability. Program participants exhibited significantly higher gains than did controls, and at the end of the program, participants also rated the quality of their school life more highly than did controls. (Author/JDD)

This project was designed to produce a program evaluation and needs assessment of the 1982 Alberta Elementary School Mathematics Program in terms of cognitive level comparisons between student responses and curricular demands. Assessment procedures consisted of 14 individual interviews and 8 paper-and-pencil tests based on children's responses to…

An assessment was designed to ascertain student status in the psychomotor, cognitive, and affective domains of physical education, and to survey the physical education programs and instructional practices through the use of student, parent, teacher, and administrator questionnaires. This assessment was conducted throughout the province of British…