Investigates the development of past tense expressions in the speech of children from 1.6 to 2.6. It is shown that this development depends crucially on the child's cognitive construction of the time dimension, as described by Piaget. (Author/RM)

Special issue on "Changing Linguistics." (DD)

Research supported by a grant from the U.S. Office of Education. (RS)

Explores alternative methods of higher education that are easily applicable to other than post-secondary institutions. (Editor)

An attempt to provide a tentative set of categories for analysis and evaluation of the increasingly popular attempts to use space and time as educational tools. It has been based on the belief that the variable use of space and time does not in itself signal significant educational change or progress, rather, it is only by viewing the impact of…

The differences among children, adolescents, and adults with respect to concept formation and learning processes and speed are discussed. (CK)

Paper presented at the TESOL Convention in New Orleans, Louisiana, March 1971. (VM)

An experiment was conducted comparing the effectiveness for producing response inhibition of high- and low-intensity physical punishment and elaborated verbal punishment when punishment was delivered either early or late in a response sequence. (Author)

Presents to subjects graphs representing differential variabilities over time in an attitude, a behavior, and a physical state and asks them to estimate the possibility of influencing each trend. Highly variable attitudes were seen as susceptible to change, whereas the others were not. (RW)