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Natterstad, Lucille – Journal of the Association for the Study of Perception, 1973
Article discusses the benefits of providing children with an educational environment that allows students to develop from their own motivation rather than at the direction of the teacher. (RK)
Descriptors: Child Development, Curriculum Development, Educational Objectives, Individualized Instruction
Schwartz, Judy I. – Academic Therapy, 1979
The importance of competence in both receptive and expressive language, selective perception, and a rich experiential background for reading readiness skills of hearing impaired children is empahsized. (CL)
Descriptors: Aural Learning, Early Childhood Education, Elementary Education, Expressive Language

Kugelmass, S.; Lieblich, A. – Human Development, 1979
Israeli Arab- and Jewish-educated children were given perceptual exploration tasks to test the effects of language on directionality in reading and writing habits. (Author/SS)
Descriptors: Arabic, Children, Comparative Analysis, Cross Cultural Studies

Garstecki, Dean C. – Volta Review, 1988
Research is reviewed on auditory-visual speech perception of hearing-impaired individuals. The review focuses on: the effects of competing noise, filtering, age, stimulus and noise, and hearing loss on perceptual behavior; bisensory communication evaluation procedures; and remediation of bisensory perceptual problems through consonant recognition…
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Auditory Training, Evaluation Methods, Hearing Impairments

Wright, John C.; And Others – Developmental Psychology, 1994
Five and seven year olds were able to correctly distinguish between factual and fictional television programs and test clips, based upon genre of program, production features, content. Age and vocabulary scores predicted accuracy of factuality judgments, but television viewing history did not. Older children understood better than younger ones…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Broadcast Television, Childhood Attitudes, Early Childhood Education

Argast, Susan; Macdonald, Cheryl – Green Teacher, 1995
In this first of a two-part integrated unit for teaching young children about trees and forests, the authors present activities which sharpen awareness of trees by using the senses. (LZ)
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Elementary Education, Environmental Education, Learning Activities

Webster, Penelope E.; Plante, Amy Solomon – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1995
Reports on a longitudinal study of the relationship between productive phonological ability and awareness in children under the age of six. The study followed 45 subjects with variant productive phonology levels from the mean age of 3 years, 6 months to 6 years, 0 months. As a child matures in productive phonology, accompanying exponential growth…
Descriptors: Child Language, Discourse Analysis, Graphs, Language Processing

Smedler, Ann-Charlotte; And Others – ACTA Paediatrica, 1992
Compared 14 healthy children who had low birthweight and were small for their gestational age with 14 control children at 10 years of age. The experimental group scored lower than control children on measures of visuospatial ability, nonverbal reasoning, strategy formation, and gross motor coordination. (BC)
Descriptors: At Risk Persons, Birth Weight, Children, Cognitive Development

Lamborn, Susie D. – Developmental Psychology, 1994
A 10-step scale for assessing development of understanding relationships between honesty and kindness was developed and administered to 113 youths. Results indicated that development moved through 3 stages, as youths age 9-12 demonstrated abstract concepts of honesty and kindness; age 13-15 demonstrated simple abstract relations; and age 16-20…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Age Differences, Altruism, Children

Dishman, Rod K.; Steinhardt, Mary – Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport, 1990
Discusses a study that compared internal health locus of control (IHLOC) with internal exercise locus of control for predicting college students' activity. Results indicate an independent influence of IHLOC on free-living physical activity and suggest that testing adjust for fitness, barriers to physical activity, and outcome-expectancy values.…
Descriptors: College Students, Exercise, Health Promotion, Individual Power

Kail, Robert – Developmental Psychology, 1991
Children and adults were tested on six speeded perceptual-motor and cognitive tasks, including a (1) response time task; (2) button tapping task; (3) pegboard task; (4) coding task; (5) picture matching task; and (6) mental addition task. Age-related change in processing time on most of these tasks was described by a single exponential function.…
Descriptors: Addition, Adolescents, Adults, Age Differences
Charney, Len – Zip Lines: The Voice for Adventure Education, 1997
Children's visual literacy can be enhanced by focusing their attention on aspects of the natural or built environment in the local community. Two activities use photographs and field trips to provide the building blocks of visual literacy: challenging activities, inquiry and problem solving, curiosity and the unexpected, and culture-based…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Discovery Processes, Elementary Secondary Education, Environmental Education
Scherz, Zahava; Oren, Miri – Science Education, 2006
This paper examines the images middle school students have of science and technology, the workplaces, and the relevant professions. It also describes the effect on these images caused by an instructional initiative, "Investigation into Science and Technology" (IST), designed to introduce students to science and technology in the "real life."…
Descriptors: Grade 9, Student Attitudes, Middle School Students, Information Technology
Guthrie, Patricia J.; Su, Chun-Min – 1992
Conclusions derived from drawing research indicate that young children can be trained to see and respond to the distinctions of their observation and that these distinctions can enrich their drawing experiences. These distinctions include spatial information obtained from observation. Three basic factors influence young children's spatial…
Descriptors: Art Activities, Art Education, Childrens Art, Cognitive Development
National Inst. on Deafness and Other Communications Disorders, Bethesda, MD. – 1991
This report, arising from a 1991 meeting, provides an update to two of the six areas covered in the 1989 long-term plan of the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders. These include: (1) balance and the vestibular system; and (2) language and language impairments. For each area, the state of the art is reviewed, recent…
Descriptors: Adults, Children, Clinical Diagnosis, Cognitive Processes