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THORNDIKE, ROBERT L. – 1967
COMPLETE EVALUATION DATA WERE GATHERED ON 162 CHILDREN IN 23 CLASSES IN NINE HEAD START CENTERS. FIVE AREAS EXPLORED WERE--(1) ITEM ANALYSIS OF EVALUATION TESTS--STANFORD-BINET AND THE CALDWELL-SOULE PRESCHOOL INVENTORY, (2) COMPARISON OF AGE-MATCHED GROUPS--43 MATCHED PAIRS WITHIN THE HEAD START POPULATION (THERE WERE NO SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCES…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Annual Reports, Behavior Change, Control Groups
FRIEDMAN, MYLES I.
IN PHASE I (OF THREE) OF A RESEARCH PROJECT, 475 SOUTHERN DISADVANTAGED CHILDREN (RANGING IN AGE FROM 3 TO 6) WERE TESTED IN AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE DESCRIPTION, DEVELOPMENT, AND SEQUENCING OF COGNITIVE ABILITIES DESIGNED TO YIELD INFORMATION ON CHILDREN'S LEARNING WITH IMPLICATIONS FOR TEACHING AND CURRICULUMS. COGNITIVE TASKS WERE SELECTED…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Measurement, Cognitive Processes
Cropley, A. J. – 1968
The relationship between creativity and intelligence is discussed; and the position that intellect is not synonymous with the ability to respond in the usual logical way to a standard test item is developed. This logical (convergent) way of thinking, measured by IQ tests, is contrasted with the creative (divergent) way of thinking, measured by…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement, Cognitive Processes, Convergent Thinking
World Federation of the Deaf, Rome (Italy). – 1967
Education for the hearing impaired is discussed in nine conference papers. J. N. Howarth describes "The Education of Deaf Children in Schools for Hearing Pupils in the United Kingdom" and A.I.Dyachkov of the U.S.S.R. outlines Didactical Principles of Educating the Deaf in the Light of their Rehabilitation Goal." Seven papers from…
Descriptors: Clinical Diagnosis, Deafness, Educational Diagnosis, Educational Principles
Zimiles, Herbert; Horton, Donald – 1967
The studies which comprise this report are as follows: (a) Document 1, Development of the Matrix Test by Herbert Zimiles and Harvery Asch (PS 001 072); (b) Document 2, Studies of the Social Organization of Head Start Centers by Donald Horton and others (PS 001 073); (c) Document 3, An Experimental Approach to Studying Non-Verbal Representation in…
Descriptors: Administrative Problems, Cognitive Tests, Disadvantaged, Educational Environment
Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Washington, DC. – 1968
Federal programs for the handicapped are listed by agency and activity. Information concerning the nature and purpose of programs, eligibility for and methods of application, printed information available, and authorizing legislation is presented for 68 programs in these fields: basic and supportive services, research and demonstration,…
Descriptors: Construction Programs, Demonstration Programs, Education, Exceptional Child Services
Ball, John, Ed.; Byrnes, Francis C., Ed. – 1960
Under the sponsorship of the National Project in Agricultural Communications, a series of 14 lessons by various authors has been compiled to serve as a reader or training manual in the field of visual communications. Several models of communications are outlined and evaluated. Many studies which concern themselves with the concepts of source,…
Descriptors: Audiovisual Aids, Audiovisual Communications, Communication Skills, Communication (Thought Transfer)
Kenneke, Larry J. – 1977
A study was conducted to update the handbook "Promising Practices in Career Education," May 1976 edition by reviewing eight projects conducted in Oregon during the fiscal year 1976. (The 1976 edition covered practices selected from Oregon vocational research and exemplary projects conducted from 1970 through 1975.) The project staff…
Descriptors: Career Awareness, Career Education, Career Guidance, Career Planning
National Academy of Sciences - National Research Council, Washington, DC. Committee on Solar Energy in the Heating and Cooling of Buildings. – 1976
This report is essentially a collection of information gathered from a broad cross-section of the building community that provides a description of the state of affairs existing mid-1974 through mid-1975 in the private sector of the building community with regard to solar heating and cooling of buildings. The report additionally contains…
Descriptors: Air Conditioning, Building Innovation, Buildings, Business
Clark, David L.; Guba, Egon G. – 1976
A report is made on the results of seven studies of KPU (Knowledge Production/Utilization) productivity by SCDEs (Schools, Colleges, and Departments of Education) in which the productivity measure was available through sources independent of the SCDEs themselves. Sources investigated included (1) publications in educational journals, (2) documents…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Educational Development, Educational Innovation, Educational Research
McKnight, Philip C.; And Others – 1975
This handbook on teaching is divided into seven parts. Following the introduction (Part I), Part II presents essays on student and faculty rights and responsibilities, evaluation and assessment, grades, and teaching and efficiency. Part III is a summary of interviews on teaching and research with 20 professors from the University of Kansas…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, College Faculty, College Instruction, Discussion (Teaching Technique)
Mueller, Daniel J.; Keene, John M., Jr. – 1977
In the spring semester of 1977 all Indiana University Groups Program students from the freshman classes 1969 through 1975 were surveyed by mailed questionnaires. Responses were received from 177 of the 1,437 Groups students to whom they were sent. Respondents were asked about educational status and educational history, current employment, and…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Educational Status Comparison, Employment Patterns, Followup Studies
Office of Child Development (DHEW), Washington, DC. – 1975
This booklet describes 38 projects funded during Fiscal Year 1974 by the Intradepartmental Committee on Child Abuse and Neglect. Projects include community prevention programs, child protection, family resource centers, mother-infant attachment, the demography of child abuse, and the effect of birth order on the mother-child relationship. Project…
Descriptors: Birth Order, Case Studies, Child Abuse, Child Advocacy
Employment Standards Administration (DOL), Washington, DC. Women's Bureau. – 1976
The purpose of this workshop was to review research needs already identified, to determine other areas in which research needs are not being met, and to establish priorities among these areas. The recommendations which were made on subjects such as part-time employment, career patterns, upward mobility, and equal pay form a broad base on which…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Careers, Employed Women, Employment
Salomon, Gavriel – 1974
The airing of "Sesame Street" on Israeli television in 1971 provided an opportunity to study the effects of a sophisticated media format on a media naive audience. Samples of 93 kindergarteners and 224 second and third graders of mixed socioeconomic background were pre- and posttested for cognitive skills and media literacy. After…
Descriptors: Achievement, Demography, Early Childhood Education, Educational Research
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