The spontaneous language behavior of 100 mother-child pairs was observed in an effort to link it with social class membership. Results indicated that some differences in verbalizations existed and furnished support for the socio-linguistic theories of Basil Bernstein. (Author/SDH)

An auditory recall task involving central and incidental stimuli designed to correspond to processes used in selective attention, was presented to elementary school students. Older children and girls performed better than younger children and boys, especially when animals were the relevant and food the irrelevant stimuli. (DP)

The purposes of this study are to: (1) design an Instrument that assesses children's attitudes toward the elderly (CATE) and the aging process; (2) employ this instrument; and (3) use the information obtained to develop a curriculum guide. The CATE was developed to examine the cognitive, affective, and behavioral components of children's…

The relationship between writing skills development and cognitive development is the focus of numerous research studies and deserves significant consideration in curriculum planning. Writing development studies indicate that as children work through the various modes of discourse (argumentation, exposition, narration, and description), they…

Self-concept must be viewed from the broader context of total organismic functioning. The human organism, functions in ways which support its own survival, maintenance, and growth. As one aspect of the total organismic functioning, self concept also may be thought of as being formed by processes which serve to support survival, maintenance, and…

Intended for the regular class teacher, the booklet contains 72 sample lesson activities for use with mainstreamed learning disabled students. Activities are organized around the Illinois Test of Psycholinguistic Abilities and cover the following areas: auditory reception, visual reception, auditory association, visual association, verbal…

The purpose of this study was to examine how children represent and compare number symbols. Pre-school, kindergarten, first, third, and fifth grade children and college students judged which of two visually presented digits was numerically larger. Twelve individuals were tested at each grade level. Response latencies were collected. Children at…

The purpose of this study was to attempt to train the horizontality concept in a group of first graders who were non-operational on the horizontality concept but transitional on what Piaget has termed the precursor concepts of distance and length conservation. There were two groups of subjects (training and control), all of whom had failed a…

This document contains a 44-page child assessment checklist developed by the Circle Preschool First Chance Project, a government-funded model program for integrating handicapped children into regular classes. Six skill areas of child development are detailed: language, cognitive, gross motor, fine motor, socio-emotional and self-help. Included are…

This classroom screening device was developed by the Circle Preschool First Chance Project, a government-funded program to integrate handicapped children into regular classroom activities, for use in preschools, nursery schools, Head Start centers and other agencies working with young children. It is designed to give a gross measure of a child's…

The cumulative deficit hypothesis with respect to age decrement in IQ was investigated in large samples of white and black school children in rural Georgia between the ages of 5 and 18. The cumulative deficits hypothesis suggests that the increasing decrement in mental test scores, relative to population norms, is a function of age in groups…

The Piagetian perspective of adult cognitive development and adult education could have implications for how work and formal reasoning can be related to adult education programs and policy. During adolescence and adulthood, many individuals enter the cognitive period of formal operations (the last of three stages in Piaget's conceptual framework…

The purpose of this research was to investigate egocentrism and to investigate the relationships between egocentrism, popularity, and certain playground behaviors for students in Grades 1-5. More than 200 students participated in the study. The results showed that: (1) egocentrism decreases with age, (2) males were less egocentric than females at…

A first hand report of a UNESCO Conference on Early Childhood Education which met to explore scientific knowledge about the development of young children from birth to six years of age, ways of providing education better adapted to realities of every day life, and implications for lifelong education. (CS)

Secondary analysis of the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement findings suggest early school entry results in higher mathematics achievement, but not reading or science achievement, as measured at ages 10 and 13. Possible explanations lie in developmental learning sequences, variations between homes and…