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King, Richard P. – 1973
The primary purpose of this investigation was to determine if increasing the number of types of sensory stimulation prior to a writing experience would help children to write more creatively and to write longer stories. The sample for this study consisted of 300 randomly selected fourth, sixth, and eighth grade students from the Silver Bay area, a…
Descriptors: Creative Writing, Doctoral Dissertations, Educational Research, Elementary Education
Download full textJohnson, Susan Buchwald – 1973
This study determines the effects of tactile communication in sport on changes in interpersonal relationships between black and white children. The experimental design consisted of three treatment groups each emphasizing tactile, cooperative, or individual experiences in physical education. The control group participated in tactile, cooperative,…
Descriptors: Athletics, Black Students, Elementary School Students, Grade 3
Harper, Ruth Valerie – 1973
This paper examines the developmental stages of haptic perception (the process of recognizing objects by the sense of touch alone), and attempts to clarify some conflicting results of studies of the effects of memory and object type. The paper also presents a specific study of haptic perception in 144 preschool and kindergarten children from…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Developmental Psychology, Imagination, Kindergarten Children
King, Dwade Robert – 1975
This study compared 5 groups (45 each) of disadvantaged first grade children learning to read 16 basic sight vocabulary words. The subjects were enrolled in 1 of 16 classrooms on three campuses of a school district in Texas located on the southern border between the United States and Mexico. Furthermore, all spoke Spanish as their first language.…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Bilingual Students, Cognitive Processes, Disadvantaged Youth
Skapof, Jerome – 1975
The purpose of this study was to judge the viability of an operational approach aimed at assessing response styles in reading using the hypothesis of sensory hierarchical organization. A sample of 103 middle-class children from a New York City public school, between the ages of five and seven, took part in a three phase experiment. Phase one…
Descriptors: Auditory Discrimination, Beginning Reading, Doctoral Dissertations, Dyslexia
Ledford, Bruce R.; Ledford, Suzanne Y. – 1985
This study investigated whether grade six students' self-esteem could be affected by the presentation of a selected stimulus below the threshold of conscious awareness via the medium of a specially prepared paper. It also investigated whether any statistically significant differences existed between the effects on self-esteem of a selected…
Descriptors: Affective Measures, Analysis of Variance, Cues, Figural Aftereffects
