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Suydam, Marilyn N., Ed. – 1978
Fourteen research reports related to mathematics education are abstracted and analyzed. Two of the reports concern studies funded by the National Science Foundation to provide an assessment of the status of science education; three deal with teaching methods, three with conditional reasoning, two with problem solving, two with intellectual…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Attitudes, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education
FRIEDMAN, HERBERT L.; ORR, DAVID B. – 1965
JUNE 1964 RESEARCH INDICATED THAT EXPOSURE TO TIME-COMPRESSED SPEECH COULD PRODUCE A SUBSTANTIALLY IMPROVED DEGREE OF COMPREHENSION, IN MALE COLLEGE STUDENTS, OF MATERIAL PRESENTED AT SPEEDS RANGING FROM 325 TO 475 WORDS PER MINUTE. AS AN EXTENSION OF ACTIVITIES DESCRIBED IN THE PROGRESS REPORT OF JUNE 1964, THE EXPERIMENT DESCRIBED HERE WAS…
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Aural Learning, College Students, Comprehension
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Singer, Bernard – 1973
The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of a sequenced, highly-structured direct instruction program in language and reading skills on the intellectual growth, academic achievement, and school adjustment of 303 middle class kindergarten children. Children were assigned to one of four treatment groups: a "direct verbal"…
Descriptors: Analysis of Covariance, Curriculum Evaluation, Grade 1, Intellectual Development
Katz, Lilian G. – 1999
This paper discusses current perspectives on the education of young children in terms of five interrelated issues rooted in a developmental perspective: (1) the complexities of predicting the long-term developmental outcomes of early experience; (2) how to interpret gender differences in the long-term effects of different approaches to early years…
Descriptors: Child Development, Cognitive Style, Early Childhood Education, Early Experience