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Allik, Judith P.; Siegel, Alexander W. – 1975
This study was designed to address two issues: "At what age do children spontaneously use a cumulative rehearsal strategy?" and "What effect does the use of the strategy have on their performance?" The subjects, 28 children at each of five grade levels (nursery, kindergarten, first, third, and fifth), were tested in a serial-position recall task.…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Educational Research, Elementary Education, Learning Processes
Padilla, Michael J. – 1976
Reported is a test of retention related to a weight, texture, and force experiment performed by a group of 120 first grade students who had been randomly grouped into three treatment strategies. The results of the retention task, accuracy test, an analysis of the strategies used on both posttests and retention tests, and some miscellaneous post…
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Educational Research, Elementary Education, Elementary School Science
Holliday, William G.; Partridge, Louise A. – 1975
The purpose of this study was to evaluate a practical procedure for determining the optimum sequencing of pictorial classification tasks in science using mean difficulty indices generated by a standard sample of grade two students. Acquisition of such skills can affect the learner's performance on subsequent material and the teacher's efforts in…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Elementary Education, Elementary School Science, Instruction
Ehri, Linnea C. – 1973
In order to verify claims made by Genevan researchers that linguistic production but not comprehension capabilities distinguish seriators from nonseriators, three tasks were administered to children between the ages of four and eight. Subjects were asked to arrange in order objects varying in size, to describe how the objects differed from each…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Child Development, Children, Developmental Tasks