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Download full textHearne, Thomas; Devore, Paul – 1973
Two teaching experiments were conducted relating to the relative effectiveness of anthropological films versus reading of literature as means of conveying anthropological information to college students and of influencing their attitudes toward other societies. In one, a student group viewed films about the Netsilik Indians, one read literature,…
Descriptors: Anthropology, Attitude Change, Cognitive Development, Educational Experiments
Hinz, Klaus – Programmiertes Lernen, 1972
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Computer Programs, Educational Experiments, English
Gabor, Georgia M. – California Journal of Educational Research, 1972
Article describes an experiment to deterimine how to promote cognitive growth in terms of classroom mathematics learning. (MM)
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Academic Achievement, Cognitive Development, Educational Experiments
Schnucker, Robert V. – 1974
To investigate the affective and cognitive gains produced in an auto-tutorial world civilizations course, two groups of students were compared. A traditionally-taught (TT) section of 145 students and an auto-tutorially (AT) taught section of 140 were given pre- and posttests and used the same text and Modular Learning Program. The TT section…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Educational Assessment, Educational Experiments, Educational Innovation
Elkonin, D. B., Ed.; Davydov, V. V., Ed. – 1968
This document is an English-language abstract (approximately 1,500 words) of a book containing the results of many years of experimental research aimed at ascertaining the intellectual ability of students in the junior grades to assimilate theoretical knowledge. Chapter one analyzes the problem of the age peculiarities of children. The author…
Descriptors: Age, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Educational Experiments
Rosner, Jerome; And Others – 1970
The effects of a visual motor training program that attempts to teach 5-year-olds the underlying cognitive structures used in copying geometric designs are assessed. The Design Board Program teaches the child a systematic method for analyzing complex two-dimensional graphic patterns. It is based on the theory that accurate replication of geometric…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Early Childhood Education, Educational Experiments, Kindergarten Children
Taba, Hilda – 1966
To test the hypothesis that if given a curriculum designed to develop cognitive functioning and taught by strategies designed to develop cognitive skills, students would then master more sophisticated symbolic thought earlier and more systematically than could be expected if this development had been left to the accidents of experience or if…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Tests
Schmalohr, Emil – 1971
This article discusses preschool education and the research conducted in that field on various relevant topics in an effort to establish recommendations and programs. Cognitive development is the main issue and is seen as a product of maturation as well as of a broad base of experience which results from interaction between the mind and the…
Descriptors: Arithmetic, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation
