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Horner, Sherri L. – 1997
This study examined the effects of observational learning on preschoolers' attention to print, use of a questioning technique, and knowledge of the alphabet. Participating were 13 boys and 13 girls from a day care center at a community college, with a mean age of 4.3 years. Children were randomly assigned to one of three training conditions, each…
Descriptors: Attention, Emergent Literacy, Imitation, Learning Processes
Grant, Dale F.; Jackson, Mary H. – 1995
Virtually every level of compulsory education features a Career Day program as part of a school's career guidance efforts. This paper proposes that Career Day programs can be improved to meet the career explorations and school-to-work needs of today's students. It advocates that the content of such programs be broadened so as to include more of…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Career Development, Career Education, Career Exploration
Grant, Theresa J.; And Others – 1994
This study investigated the effect on teachers of observing or implementing an alternative form of instruction in a primary-grade arithmetic class. Under consideration were the relationships between the beliefs teachers held about mathematics and about teaching mathematics, and their recognition and internalization of the principles of the…
Descriptors: Arithmetic, Educational Change, Educational Innovation, Elementary School Teachers
Nursery Nature Walks, Santa Monica, CA. – 1992
This book offers ideas that can help families find the simplicity of enjoying nature. These outdoor activities address the young child, leave room for the child's own interpretation and improvisation, and allow adults to look at nature through the eyes of their children. Respect for nature is an underlying message throughout the book. The over 100…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Environmental Education, Learning Activities, Observational Learning
Zielinski, Edward J. – 1987
Field trips allow students unique access to resources not available in the classroom. Field experiences enhance students' understanding, are a factor in retention, can be motivational, and are essential for the acquisition of basic science skills. Students learn, in a meaningful way, the procedures of setting goals, observing and recording data,…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Elementary Secondary Education, Experiential Learning, Field Trips
Raffield, Barney T., III – 1988
The concept of cultural universals, the basic needs shared by people around the world, is a critical concept in assessing the impact of culture on decisions about the international marketing of goods and services. In most cases, international marketers have little need to understand all the ways in which their culture differs from the culture of…
Descriptors: Business Administration, Cultural Awareness, Cultural Influences, Intercultural Communication
Toner, Ignatius J. – 1977
Peer modeling as a non-punitive disciplinary technique was examined in two studies assessing its effectiveness in increasing self-control of young children in the absence of an authority figure. The first study investigated the effect of observing the rule-following behavior of a peer model on the observing child's subsequent self-control.…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Behavior Patterns, Disadvantaged Youth, Discipline
Evans, Calvin W. – 1976
Through an understanding of learning theories, both those that are cognitive in focus and those which rely on a stimulus-response paradigm, educators may come to a fuller knowledge of what is involved in languaging acts and to a more complete understanding of how to teach necessary communication skills. This paper provides a brief overview of…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Communication Skills, English Instruction, Higher Education
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Belcher, Terence L. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1975
Investigates the effects of a videotaped model upon children's verbal originality. Among the four experimental groups tested, it was found that the group who viewed the videotaped model had significant increases in both quantity and quality of divergent productions. (Author/DEP)
Descriptors: Children, Creative Expression, Creativity, Divergent Thinking
Solter, Aletha; Mayer, Richard E. – 1977
These experiments tested the hypothesis that an instructional strategy involving guided discovery will promote meaningful learning of problem solving concepts by activating an assimilative set during learning. In order to investigate the effect of discovery training and concrete manipulation, preschool children were given training in one to one…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Learning, Memory, Number Concepts
Trueblood, Cecil R.; Shrigley, Robert L.
This report summarizes the results of a pre-student teaching field experience for elementary education majors at Pennsylvania State University. A program was organized in which public school teachers agreed to work with students to provide on-the-spot tutorial instruction regarding the teaching technique they employed, to provide the opportunity…
Descriptors: Education Majors, Elementary Education, Field Experience Programs, Observational Learning
Steinman, Warren M. – 1971
Research was conducted relevant to two questions: First, does generalized imitation reflect the child's failure to discriminate reinforced from non-reinforced occasions? Second, are the results which characterize generalized imitation a function of confounded social and instructional influences that operate within the procedures used in…
Descriptors: Discrimination Learning, Elementary School Students, Evaluation Methods, Experimental Groups
Simmons, M. Patricia – 1973
Piagetian theory provides direction and support for an early identification, early intervention focus for special education of handicapped children. This focus includes guidance and training for parent and child to enhance their relationship and to facilitate the child's movement through normal developmental sequences in sensory-motor, cognitive,…
Descriptors: Handicapped Children, Home Programs, Imitation, Infant Behavior
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Marturano, Arlene – Science and Children, 1976
A learning activity is described in which the children become involved in dialogs with the Earth and its resources, and in turn the eye reads the surroundings and becomes more skilled at observation. (EB)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Elementary School Science, Environmental Education, Incidental Learning
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Zimmerman, Barry J.; Koussa, Richard – Contemporary Educational Psychology, 1979
Preschool children interacted with an adult model who was either low or highly rewarding to the child. Later the model displayed either a high or low degree of positive affect as he played with a nonpreferred toy. The model's affect influenced both the children's ratings of and imitative play with the toy. (Author/RD)
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Behavior Change, Learning Processes, Modeling (Psychology)
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