Studies were made of (1) young children's use of body-weight type for processing information about peers, and (2) the development of children's stereotypical knowledge about characteristics associated with body-weight type. For the first study, a measure was developed to assess "body salience," or the degree to which children use weight…

The Bender Gestalt Test and the WRAT reading section were administered to 147 disadvantaged children. The zero-order correlation of -.62 was found to be moderated by the variable of age. For younger subjects, highly significant first- and second-order partial correlations were obtained with age and/or WISC information scores held constant. (Author)

This article examines the evidence and arguments for and against the position that young children are better equipped to profit from foreign language studies than adults, with special reference to FLES programs. Adult and child learning patterns are compared, along with the formal and informal contexts of language acquisition. (CLK)

Two groups of 27 adult braille readers and one group of 10 large print readers (mean age 13 years) were given 2-week workshops to allow them to develop rapid reading skills. (Author)

Two studies of 7-, 8- and 9-year-olds assessed the effect on cognitive development produced by varying degrees of physical isolation of family dwellings and the consequent variation in the amount of verbal communication children had with peers and adults. (JMB)

This paper examines the factors which determine whether or not married couples or unmarried adults head their own households. It also discusses causes of the rise in headship rates since 1940. Headship rates were found to vary by sex, location, and earnings level. (Author)

Assessed organizational strategies for recall by comparing lists designed for recall by children in kindergarten, third and sixth grade with ordinary free associations, and by observing whether the lists served as units of organization in a subsequent free recall task. (Author/SDH)

Reports on a study designed to provide data on developmental and sociolinguistic patterns of interpersonal speech usage from ages 2 to 5 years which may have important implications for poverty school programs. (Author/CS)

Distance Education provides the technological improvement effect on education. With the developments of high technology and globalization, social, cultural, educational aspects of life become different and get better in terms of time space and communication. In the educational field, classical learning and teaching techniques can not be effective…

Results of a study examining how social work students view creativity, how various student characteristics correlate with creativity scores, and how social work students' scores compare with other undergraduate majors are discussed. (Author/KM)

Investigated the construct validity of the Coopersmith Self Esteem Inventory, using approximately 1500 elementary school students. Also investigated grade level differences in preadolescent and adolescent children. (Author/ED)

An investigation of size accuracy and spatial accuracy of depth perception in a total of 227 African, Chinese and European children between 4 and 10 years of age. The pattern of results varied little between cultures. (Author/SDH)

Investigated whether parents do imply different moral principles to children of different ages and whether there is a relationship between the type of moral reasoning that the parents imply and the level of moral reasoning used by the child. (SDH)

Research shows wide differences in the way individuals react to paced, constrained jobs. Workers show increasing job satisfaction with age, but there are few older workers among assembly line operatives; perhaps they leave because of seniority, job change, or retirement. Aging, however, may make personalities more compatible with assembly line…