The Pre-Kindergarten Program was established as a part of the Language Development Program (funded under Title I of the 1965 Elementary Secondary Education Act) which is intended to increase the language facility of low income Columbus children. The pre-kindergarten child should leave the program feeling important and unique and should have gained…

This research bulletin reports an evaluation study of the program of the Dale Avenue Early Childhood Education Center, funded under Title III of the 1965 Elementary Secondary Education Act. A pre- and post-test experimental and control design using standardized and locally developed instruments was used to evaluate the academic performance of the…

The Dale Avenue Early Childhood Education Center, opened in September 1969 and funded under Title III of the 1965 Elementary Secondary Education Act, features a program set up for kindergarten through third grade but basically ungraded. Each child is allowed to move at his own pace within the range of his own abilities. Furthermore, the child's…

The purpose of this study was to examine young Children's tendencies to be task or socially oriented in an experimental situation. On the basis of past research, two independent variables were chosen: field dependence-independence and sex. It was expected that field-dependent subjects and girls would tend to be more socially oriented, while…

This paper investigates the evidence for adult-infant ratios in day care centers, finding that current evidence is based largely on the premise that a low number of infants per adult should result in greater interaction between the adults and the infants, and, thereby, better infant care. Support for this premise is derived from three main…

This handbook, primarily for parents and teachers of preschool through third grade children, provides some insights into Piaget's theories about how children think and learn and presents ideas for using Piagetian-type activities and games in the home or classroom. (The handbook does not attempt to give a comprehensive analysis of Piaget's theory…

This paper examines evidence supporting the hypothesis that environment differentially affects intelligence in a sex-specific manner. The current position that environment and heredity contribute interactively to intelligence obscures the greater vulnerability and exposure of males to environmental influences and the reciprocal lack of equivalent…

This document reviews recent research on language development and discusses some of the methods for encouraging language used in commercially produced lesson plans such as the Peabody Language Development Kit, the Peabody Early Education Kit and the Distar Language Program. An argument is presented against the concept that some children…

Naturalistic observation of the spontaneous role-taking behavior of 16 four-year-old children (8 boys, 8 girls) in a free play situation with a same-sex peer was used to investigate the sex role perceptions and preferences of young children. Videotape recordings of the unelicited male, female, parental, and conjugal role portrayals were examined…

Performance data for 42 subjects pertaining to seven course objectives and ten propositional logic tasks were analyzed for hierarchical relationships using ordering theoretic technique. The resulting hierarchy indicated that simple implication and particular contraposition propositional logic tasks were prerequisite to some course objectives. This…

This study investigates how children, who have acquired a basic speech repertoire, introduce dialogues and how they then pursue their communicative purpose in the course of interaction. The subjects were 20 kindergarten children and 20 second graders, ranging in age from 5 to 5 1/2 and from 7 to 7 1/2. The significant questions pursued were: (1)…

This paper discusses the differences between the one-child family and the family with more than one child in terms of the effects or possible effects on the child. Longitudinal studies of 200 children being followed from birth through age 5 (one-third of whom are only children, two-thirds, second children, were used as a data base, along with a…

Elementary school students (12 year olds) and two groups of 13 year old grammar school students were involved in an experiment which measured the ability to recognize the concept of controlling variables. In addition, ability to transfer learning to another situation was tested. (CP)

Presents a framework for conceptualizing development of individual differences in reading ability that emphasizes the effects of reading on cognitive development and on "bootstrapping" relationships involving reading. Uses the framework to explicate some persisting problems in the literature on reading disability and to conceptualize…

Identifies four characteristics of a cognitive model of learning (short-term and long-term memory, use of cognitive strategies, and dual information processing), and examines this model's implications for educational broadcast television design. This review focuses on research studies with instructional implications for pacing, cueing, modeling,…