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Watts, Jean Carew; And Others – 1973
This description of the Preschool Project focuses on one aspect of research: the effect of his human environment on the child's intellectual development; specifically, the effect of his interaction with his main caregiver. The Preschool Project is described in more complete detail in document PS 006 798. The project is categorized as a natural…
Descriptors: Competence, Environmental Influences, Intellectual Development, Longitudinal Studies
Download full textNimnicht, Glen P. – 1970
This report gives an overall evaluation of the Parent/Child Program of preschool education for 3- to 4-year-olds. The program objectives are: (1) to aid parents to help their children develop a healthy self-concept, (2) to help parents to promote their children's intellectual development through educational toys, (3) to help parents stimulate…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Intellectual Development, Parent Attitudes, Parent Child Relationship
Watts, Jean Carew; And Others – 1973
This document briefly describes Phase I of the Preschool Project. The research from 1969-72, Phase II, focuses on how the experiences and environments of highly competent and less competent children differ in early childhood. It is theorized that intellectual development is a function of a child's interaction with his human and physical…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Competence, Environmental Influences, Intellectual Development
Ball, Rachel S. – 1971
The present report is the fourth of a series concerned with mental functioning and its development in early childhood. The study attempted to discover whether the same children tested at intervals of one or more years showed similar development in thinking ability from age to age. Longitudinal test protocols were obtained for 92 children at 3…
Descriptors: Ability, Age Differences, Aptitude, Convergent Thinking
Rogers, Sinclair; Wheeler, T. J. – 1976
This paper reports the findings of a survey to determine the effects, if any, that experience in playgroups had upon children of varying social class backgrounds in differing areas within the United Kingdom. The project aimed at answering two major questions: (1) Did teachers perceive differences in first year infant school children that they…
Descriptors: Aggression, British Infant Schools, Creative Development, Foreign Countries
Center for Urban Education, New York, NY. – 1966
This investigation was designed to provide the data to be used in a preliminary evaluative description of New York City's expanded prekindergarten and kindergarten programs funded under Title I. Data were collected from 20 randomly selected kindergarten classes in ten schools and ten prekindergarten classes in six schools through the use of…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Classroom Environment, Disadvantaged Youth, Equipment Evaluation
