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Gaffney, Maureen, Ed. – Young Viewers Magazine, 1980
Designed for media specialists and educators, this issue contains four articles focusing on children and television. The lead article outlines major Australian views on television, analyzing how these concepts determine that country's use of the medium. The second article reviews international developments in children's television highlighted at…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Elementary Education, Incidental Learning, Individual Development
Buchmann, Margret – 1989
The idea that breaks from experience are necessary and salutary in teacher education is a response to an enduring problem of teacher education: the fact that aspiring teachers come to their preparation with set ideas about teaching, learning, and schooling that fit with the larger ideal and institutional order into which they were born. Typically,…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Cognitive Structures, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education
Burstein, Nancy Davis – 1989
Nine student teachers kept logs and responded to questionnaires during their two student teaching assignments of 7 weeks and 8 weeks in the spring semester. The student teachers transitioned from observing to actual teaching more quickly in the second assignment. Within the assignments, however, the time they spent observing at the beginning of…
Descriptors: Cooperating Teachers, Elementary Education, Higher Education, Observational Learning
Vitaro, Frank; Robert, Michele – 1983
A study was conducted to investigate the respective contributions of personal and social factors (initial competence and imitation of modeled responses) in children's observational learning of conservation. Subjects included 180 first-grade nonconservers from six schools attended by French-speaking middle class pupils. All subjects failed…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Comprehension, Conservation (Concept), Elementary School Students
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Tomera, Audrey N. – Science Education, 1974
Investigated was the retention of the skills of observation and comparison in junior high school students in a rural junior high school and an urban setting. Data obtained showed a consistently high degree of retention for both skills (although degree of retention was higher for observation than for comparison skills) regardless of treatment…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Educational Research, Instruction, Junior High School Students
Murray, John P.; Ahammer, Inge M. – 1977
This study compares the effectiveness of four experimental training programs designed to foster altruism in kindergarten children. Subjects were 97 children 4-5 years of age in six preschool classes. The children were assigned as a class to one of the six training and control conditions. The four training conditions were: (1) role playing; (2)…
Descriptors: Altruism, Cognitive Development, Early Childhood Education, Educational Programs
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Brody, Gene H.; Zimmerman, Barry J. – American Educational Research Journal, 1975
The following hypotheses were tested: (1) children who attend open classrooms have smaller personal spaces than children attending traditional classrooms, and (2) personal space is a socially learned phenomenon which may be increased or decreased as a result of watching proximate or distant teacher-child models. (Author/BJG)
Descriptors: Classroom Design, Classroom Environment, Classrooms, Elementary Education
Bruening, William H.
The paper is a philosophical examination of values education. It is presented in three major sections. First, there is a discussion of the role that value education has played in the American educational system. A historical review of four documents published by national educational groups and the government indicates that moral education has been…
Descriptors: Educational History, Educational Philosophy, Educational Problems, Elementary Secondary Education
Hoffman, Martin L. – 1979
The psychoanalytic theory of identification and the cognitive-developmental and social-learning theories of imitation are briefly described. Pertinent empirical research in the following areas is summarized and critically evaluated: imitation in infants, observational learning, clinical use of modeling, and the relation of imitation to aggression,…
Descriptors: Aggression, Behavior Change, Children, Developmental Stages
Nolan, R. O.; And Others – 1973
The Final Report, Volume 1, covers research results of the Michigan State University Driver Performance Measurement Project. This volume (Volume 2) constitutes a guide for training observers/raters in the driver performance measurement procedures developed in this research by MSU. The guide includes a training course plan and content materials…
Descriptors: Course Organization, Driver Education, Educational Programs, Instructional Materials
Levie, W. Howard, Ed. – Viewpoints, 1973
Centrally concerned with research which investigated how people learn from pictures, this issue of "Viewpoints" provides a series of review articles and a bibliography. The first article reviews recent research using adult subjects in commonly used psychological research paradigms--recognition memory, recall associate learning--and introduces…
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Children, Color, Learning
Stevenson, Harold W. – 1972
This book is a compilation of literature and research concerning how children learn. The first chapter is a historical introduction to research in learning that summarizes the major developments of the last 100 years and relates these developments specifically to children's learning. The main body of the text is divided into six major topics: (1)…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Concept Formation, Discrimination Learning, Early Childhood Education
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Nord, James – CALICO Journal, 1987
The "rear-view mirror" approach referred to by McLuhan refers to new media being used with the methods of older, different media. A Sens-it (SENtence- SENtence- SITuation) cell model is suggested as an effective use of interactive videodisk systems in contrast to the communicative competence approach. (Author/LMO)
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Computer Assisted Instruction, Educational Technology, Instructional Innovation
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Gott, Richard; Welford, Geoff – School Science Review, 1987
Examines the definitions of scientific observation used in assessing students in Great Britain for the General Certificate in Secondary Education (GCSE). Proposes an instruction framework that supports such definitions. Provides examples of observational tasks and some methods of evaluating them. (TW)
Descriptors: Elementary School Science, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Observation
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Weinholtz, Donn; And Others – Evaluation and the Health Professions, 1986
Two separate reliability studies were conducted on an observational instrument derived from previous qualitative research and designed for collecting data on teaching behaviors during attending rounds. The reliability estimates from both studies were quite high, indicating that the instrument shows promise for use in both research and evaluation…
Descriptors: Clinical Teaching (Health Professions), Graduate Medical Education, Higher Education, Interrater Reliability
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