A study was undertaken to determine whether a group of 26 parents generalized the use of behavior management techniques to their daily interactions with their developmentally disabled, behavior disordered, or normal preschool children at home. Parents participated in a 10 week course on practical parenting and their parent/child interactions were…

Examined in two studies--one involving three developmentally retarded children, the other involving two first grade children--were strategies for promoting transfer of newly acquired skills from a structured, one-to-one tutoring setting to an unstructured setting where children work independently. Before generalization training was begun, little…

Four male and five female Negro children (ranging in age from 5 to 9 years) served in an experimental comparison of the discriminative control exerted by sex and race aspects of other children. A baseline was established in which color photoslides of a Negro girl and a Caucasian boy differentially controlled responding on two push buttons.…

Spontaneous and model-induced production of a valuational style of inquiry was studied in 128 third grade children. Provision of a favorable versus a neutral outcome-expectation, and sex of child failed to influence the results. All modeling groups displayed strong value-question increases over baseline which, without further tutelage, they…

The study was intended to determine the effect of the mode of verbalization of a discovered generalization on short-term retention of ability to use the generalization. Fifty preservice elementary teachers were assigned to one of the five verbalization methods: speaking, listening, writing, reading, or no verbalization. Each performed on six…

The concern of the experiment is to find out the roles of abstraction and generalization in the learning of mathematical structures. The basic question is whether to generalize before abstracting or vice-versa in order to maximize transfer. The experiment involves four mathematical tasks and a transfer of activity. Experimental procedures are…

Three experiments examined predictions generated by incorporating a common-elements account of stimulus generalization within the Rescoral-Wagner model of conditioning. (Editor)

A demonstration-plus-feedback technique was applied in an attempt to reduce the systematic inversion errors in subtraction in nine learning disabled students (ages 9-11 years). Journal availability: see EC 112 927. (DLS)

Three eduable mentally retarded English boys (ages 14 and 15 years) were chosen to participate in a behavior modification study to test what effects the modification of their behavior would have on their classmates. (PHR)

An 11-year-old English male with severe reading difficulties was taught relaxation techniques in order to improve his reading. (PHR)

Four episodes are described to illustrate the language of elementary school children. Each episode supports a generalization characteristic of the language of children of elementary school age. (CM)

Discusses a strategy by which students can explore social studies concepts by doing. Describes the use of counter examples to help students derive clear, concise definitions of terms and appropriate applications. Gives a set of rules by which definitions can be evaluated and presents example exercises. For journal availability, see SO 506 572.…

Examines certain assumptions about social research that guide teaching and give power and authority to curriculum. (Author/RK)