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Corso, Marjorie – 1999
This paper contends that a person's readiness for academic learning should be based on his/her developmental readiness, not on chronological age requirements. Human beings develop at their own neurological rates (biological clock). The paper first cites research on a "sensitive learning period" in which learning is mastered in a more efficient…
Descriptors: Developmental Stages, Individual Development, Learning Processes, Learning Readiness
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Sippola, Arne E. – Reading Teacher, 1985
Reviews literature on different aspects of reading readiness, then presents a reading readiness material analysis inventory constructed according to the findings of the review. Explains how the instrument can be used by educators to compare readiness program materials. (FL)
Descriptors: Child Development, Learning Processes, Learning Readiness, Primary Education
Campione, Joseph C.; Brown, Ann L. – 1985
In an effort to validate dynamic assessment methods influenced by Vygotsky's (1978) definition of zones of proximal development (an indicator of readiness), three sets of experiments addressed two goals: the development of diagnostic assessment methods and the use of diagnostic results to guide the design of instructional programs. The first two…
Descriptors: Cognitive Measurement, Cognitive Processes, Educational Diagnosis, Elementary Education
Henderson, Ronald W.; And Others – 1972
The history and accomplishments of the Arizona Center for Early Childhood Education from its founding in 1966, as a component of the National Laboratory on Early Childhood Education, to its reorganization in 1972, as the Arizona Center for Educational Research and Development, are presented. The Arizona Center originated with a commitment to the…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Cultural Pluralism, Disadvantaged, Disadvantaged Youth