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Download full textCrawford, Connie M. – 1995
In 1988, 59 Kindergarten students were studied to determine the effect of "shadowing" on perceptual-motor learning. Shadowing is a method whereby the use of one's shadow provides visual feedback. The method developed from observing children's natural curiosity in creating shadows. Illuminated by sunlight outdoors or overhead projectors…
Descriptors: Body Image, Depth Perception, Early Childhood Education, Eye Hand Coordination
Heywood, John – 1996
This report describes a course in the Irish student-teacher curriculum that was designed in response to criticisms of post-graduate teacher training that it was too theoretical and insufficiently practical. The design of the Applied Psychology of Instruction course was based on the teacher-as-researcher paradigm of professionalism. Student…
Descriptors: Creative Thinking, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
Tansley, A. E. – 1986
This booklet presents educational programs and activities focusing on motor skills for 5- to 9-year-old children and older children with learning problems. The premise of the activities is that the acquisition of motor skills is essential to basic learning. The role of language as a mediator and controller of motor development is emphasized. The…
Descriptors: Body Image, Elementary Education, Language Skills, Learning Activities
Wisconsin State Dept. of Public Instruction, Madison. – 1984
The purpose of this manual is to provide supplemental information and to serve as a general resource for practitioners involved in the developmental and educational assessment of young children. The first section focuses on the process of assessing young handicapped children and includes specific information on indicators of potential problems in…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Check Lists, Cognitive Development, Communication Skills
Shipman, Virginia C.; And Others – 1976
This document on early characteristics of high and low achieving black children of low socioeconomic status is part of the ETS Head Start longitudinal study, Disadvantaged Children and Their First School Experiences. In the study reported here, intensive case studies were prepared for those study children who, on a 3rd-grade achievement test,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Black Youth, Cognitive Development
Hermanns, Jo – 1979
This study attempts to identify potential school problems in preschool children in order to facilitate the provision of relevant information for systematic screening and early guidance. Data from the first 14 months (to the end of the preschool period) of a longitudinal study extending from 4 1/2 years of age to the end of second grade are…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Behavior Patterns, Behavior Rating Scales, Cognitive Development
PARKER, RONALD K. – 1968
DESCRIBED ARE THE COMPONENTS OF PROJECT KNOW HOW (PKH), AN OFFICE OF ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY EXPERIMENTAL PROGRAM. DESIGNED TO ATTACK INDIVIDUAL FAMILIAL POVERTY, PKH INVOLVES A PRESCHOOL TRAINING PROGRAM BEGINNING IN THE FIRST YEAR OF LIFE AND CONTINUING TO SCHOOL AGE, A SALARIED ASSISTING MOTHERS PROGRAM, A FATHER'S PROGRAM, AND A FAMILY HEALTH…
Descriptors: Achievement, Child Development, Data Collection, Evaluation Methods
Osborne, R. Travis; Lindsey, James M. – 1965
A total of 125 white children from three counties in Georgia (selected as representative of small rural and medium and large industrial urban populations) were administered a battery of tests in three phases of their schooling: (1) during the summer preceding their admission to the first grade, (2) near the end of the first grade, and (3) near the…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Concept Formation, Elementary School Students, Expressive Language
Segal, Cecile P. – 1974
The inferior performance of external locus of control (LOC) subjects (Ss) on achievement tests has been attributed by many researchers to cognitive and perceptual deficiencies. Several studies have shown that advance organizers (AO) which provide optimal anchorage and mobilize existing relevant concepts, facilitate learning of verbal material.…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Behavior Patterns, Cognitive Processes, Comparative Analysis
Draper, Ingrid L., Comp; And Others – 1975
Presented is a resource guide which provides an overview of approximately 185 commercially prepared preschool educational materials available to regular and special education classroom teachers. Materials have been categorized into nine instructional areas: cognitive development, number concept development, perceptual-motor development, language…
Descriptors: Auditory Training, Cognitive Development, Exceptional Child Education, Handicapped Children
Morgan, Harry – 1976
The goal of this paper is to combine selected research literature concerned with early and advanced sensorimotor development in black children, and the institutional management of their natural precocity. The first section briefly reviews selected literature about sensorimotor development in black children. The second section discusses the current…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Black Youth, Classroom Techniques, Cognitive Development
Baron, L.; O'Bryan, Kenneth G. – 1974
Much early research regarded television as a static medium, and it ignored the process of the information delivery and its match with the cognitive style of the viewer. Information processing should be looked at from the dual perspective of eye movement research and the degree of locus control. To uncover the interrelationships of efficient eye…
Descriptors: Children, Educational Media, Educational Research, Educational Television
Debes, John L., III – 1974
For the past 100 years we have been acting as if education in school was of words, by words, and for words, but in fact verbal literacy was preceded by visual literacy when humans communicated with body language before they had speech. American educators have been concentrating efforts on the left hemisphere of the brain in which the verbal…
Descriptors: Cerebral Dominance, Cognitive Development, Intellectual Development, Intelligence Quotient
Wright, Charlene; And Others – 1970
This paper describes the development of a program which uses paraprofessional home visitors, known as Child Development Trainers, as disseminators of information necessary for the growth and development of the fetus and young infant. These Trainers serve a low income population. Weekly home visits were designed to aid the expectant mother to…
Descriptors: Child Caregivers, Child Development, Economically Disadvantaged, Family Involvement
Bureau of Elementary and Secondary Education (DHEW/OE), Washington, DC. – 1969
The project of Children's Assessment Placement Instruction Center (CAPIC) is described as a multi-disciplinary approach to the study of children with developmental and learning disorders beginning with pilot units and eventually developing a center for assessment and clinical teaching prior to placement. The evaluation of activities includes the…
Descriptors: Educational Diagnosis, Emotional Disturbances, Exceptional Child Education, Financial Needs
