Discusses research which focuses on the types of experience that foster the internalization of moral norms in an individual's development. Considers the roles of parents, peers, and the mass media, as well as cognitive development and arousal of affects such as empathy and guilt. (Author/GC)

Attainment relative to six cognitive operations and four number and computational skills was assessed for 90 elementary students using clinical procedures. Variance associated with conservation of number, seriation, and logical classification competency accounted for a significant proportion of the variance in achievement scores. (Author/MK)

The project is based on a general systems approach. Developmental stage theory is employed as a starting point, and the developmental "minitasks" which act as stair risers from one developmental level to another are carried through with the use of Bloom's cognitive taxonomy. (Author/DLS)

Pairs of elementary school children at different concept development levels were given problems to discuss, in order to examine the prediction, derived from the equilibration model, that when two children holding different beliefs must arrive at a consenus, the child possessing the higher level of cognitive development will prevail over the child…

Suggests that the general ability structure for retardates is more complex than the structure for normals, containing a "stimulus trace" factor in addition to verbal-educational and spatial-perceptual parameters. (RL)

Discussed are the influences of a student's gender, grade level, country of origin, and urban/rural environment in performance of proportional and combinatorial Piagetian tasks. (Author/SA)

Suggests an approach to understanding moral functioning incorporating developments in biological and cognitive theory. (Author/MP)

Participants aged 17-26, 39-51 and 59-76 solved concept problems to investigate intellectual correlates of concept identification as a function of stage of learning in adulthood. Differential ability-performance relations as a function of stage of learning were considerably less potent in the elderly v the young and middle aged. (Author)

A general discussion of cognitive development as it relates to measurement is presented. Suggested measurement activities are given. (MK)

College reading programs can be designed for limited departmental budgets and integrate reading, writing, speaking, and thinking within content areas. To teach reading successfully within content areas calls for careful coordination with the students' other academic courses. A description and evaluation of a program used at Douglass College is…

Reported is a study of the influence of a biology course on the development of correlational reasoning in students. (SA)

Comments on the study of Mali and Howe (1979) which used the work of Nussbaum and Novak to examine the notions that Nepali children hold about the earth. (HM)

Investigates the difference between the perceived knowledge structure of unified science students and subject-centered students, and their respective teachers' perceived knowledge structures and curriculum content structures at a Massachusetts high school during the 1973-1974 academic year. (HM)

In this article a general model of mastery learning is developed and discussed using data gathered from operating applications of the mastery model in college classrooms. Suggestions for the implementation of the mastery model in the high school are also presented. (HM)