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American Institutes for Research in the Behavioral Sciences, Palo Alto, CA. – 1969
This preschool program concentrated on language development, self-concept, perception, and concept formation. Also, a vertically organized program of reading, math, science, and creative dramatics, along with parent activity, inservice training, and dissemination, covered prekindergarten through the third grade. Individual and small group work…
Descriptors: Blacks, Compensatory Education, Concept Formation, Educational Games
Ireland, Vera M.; And Others – Research and Development Report (Atlanta Public Schools), 1968
A battery of cognitive, personal, and demographic tests were given to 216 children from Title I (of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act) schools, with and without previous school experience, and to 31 children from non-Title I schools. The effects of prekindergarten experience upon subsequent school experience were evaluated. The Title-I…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Cognitive Development, Kindergarten Children, Perceptual Development
Winzenz, Marilyn – 1977
Extensive research has proven that the functions of the two hemispheres of the brain tend to be qualitatively different. The left hemisphere, which for most people is dominant, is the major controller of speech, reading, and writing; it is the hemisphere toward which education traditionally has been directed. The right hemisphere excels in…
Descriptors: Cerebral Dominance, Cognitive Processes, Creativity, Diagnostic Teaching
Clark, Eve V. – 1974
This paper studies aspects of the conceptual basis for language acquisition, with a focus on the perceptual-cognitive skills used to assign meanings to words. A first assumption is that the correspondence between adult and child perceptual features allows for early communication. Apparently, in the first year, naming is characterized by…
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Development, Concept Formation, Language Acquisition
Victor, Jack – 1969
This study is concerned with an examination of tendencies among individuals or groups to vary in their selection of certain types of responses when the same choice is presented in some other form, the tendencies being termed "response sets." Positional response sets (PRS), to which multiple-choice type items are prone, have reportedly…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Diagnostic Tests, Disadvantaged Youth, Early Childhood Education
Bartz, Barbara S. – 1970
In 1964 World Book wanted to be able to say that more than 1,000 maps being made for the encyclopedia were designed to be appropriate and useful for children between the ages of nine and fourteen. However, there was virtually no research on which such a program could be based. This paper briefly reviews research projects in this area started in…
Descriptors: Cartography, Concept Formation, Design, Elementary School Students
Mogar, Robert E. – 1967
A general, conceptual model describing the elements and sequencing of the educational process is presented with a submodel which greatly elaborates segments of the general model. The submodel orders both persons and educational techniques in terms of two major modes of perceiving the world and two major modes of judging what has been perceived.…
Descriptors: Classification, Conceptual Schemes, Educational Change, Educational Improvement
Grayson, Mary; And Others – 1969
The objective of the Central Atlantic Regional Educational Laboratory (CAREL) visual arts program was to develop a curriculum that would increase children's visual knowledge of artists and art work, develop their visual sensitivity and perceptual ability, and encourage creative production and perception of art work. Workshops were conducted to…
Descriptors: Artists, Curriculum Development, Kindergarten, Painting (Visual Arts)
Sator, Rita A., Ed. – 1973
Included in the daily program are listings of demonstration events, film showings, sports activities and session offerings. After a greeting from Jean Kennedy Smith for the Kennedy Foundation, the Special Olympics program is reviewed and ways are suggested for developing a local program. Discussed are new dimensions in physical education for the…
Descriptors: Athletics, Behavioral Objectives, Conference Reports, Exceptional Child Education
Hill, J. M. M. – 1969
To further clarify the problems relating to the transition from school to work, this pilot project was undertaken to study the way children's perceptions of adult work develop over the course of time. Information for the study was collected through a series of intensive, individual, private interviews with 162 children (ages 7-20) concerning their…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Career Development, Career Planning, Child Development
Council for Exceptional Children, Reston, VA. Information Center on Exceptional Children. – 1971
One of a series of over 50 similar selected bibliographies dealing with handicapped and gifted children, the bibliography contains 96 references concerning perceptual-motor development and learning. Entries, which include research reports, texts, journal articles, and other types of literature, were selected from Exceptional Child Education…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Bibliographies, Exceptional Child Education, Handicapped Children
Milford Exempted Village Schools, OH. – 1972
This study discusses a visual communications project designed to develop activities to promote visual literacy at the elementary and secondary school levels. The project has four phases: (1) perception of basic forms in the environment, what these forms represent, and how they inter-relate; (2) discovery and communication of more complex…
Descriptors: Audiovisual Aids, Communication Skills, Educational Media, Elementary Education
Swallow, Rose-Marie – 1971
This study examined automatic processing of perceptual stimuli (auditory, visual, auditory-visual) and of linguistic units (morphological rules, grammatical structures, and syntactical control). Sixty average (85-115 IQ), Caucasian, middle class, eight-year-old boys were selected from La Habra School District second grades. The testing instruments…
Descriptors: Auditory Stimuli, Grade 2, Grammar, Inner Speech (Subvocal)
Kratochvil, Daniel W. – 1971
This is one of 21 reports dealing with the developmental history of recent and successful educational products. The report on the Frostig program is based upon: (1) published materials; (2) documents in the files of the developing agency; and (3) interviews with staff who were involved in the product development. All phases in the developmental…
Descriptors: Educational Development, Educational Innovation, Instructional Materials, Material Development
Abrams, Alvin J.; Cook, Richard L. – 1971
In training people to perform auditory identification tasks (e.g., training students to identify sound characteristics in a sonar classification task), it is important to know whether or not training procedures are merely sustaining performance during training or whether they enhance learning of the task. Often an incorrect assumption is made that…
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Classification, Cognitive Processes, Educational Programs
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