Describes a preservice teacher education program of Gallaudet College where student teachers participate in the Instrumental Enrichment Program to develop their cognitive skills. Includes an illustrated model. (MD)

Cognitive theories of problem solving and cognitive psychologists' suggestions for teaching problem solving are reviewed. Theories and suggestions from creativity research are also considered. How high proficiency levels in problem solving are acquired and how best to teach problem-solving skills (for both well- and ill-structured problems) are…

Analyzes the research on how readers use text patterns to understand writing and identifies five text patterns found in both school texts and work texts. (HOD)

Reviews theories on cognition and perception as they relate to language and the arts and presents research supporting an arts-centered curriculum as beneficial to language and reading development. (FL)

Discusses details for establishing and evaluating student directed reading groups. (HOD)

Stresses that teaching writing is a very difficult task because of, among other things, the problems in changing students' lifelong habits, their general lack of reading and summarizing skills, the intuitive nature of grammar use, and the lack of instruction in logical thinking. (CRH)

Concludes that sixth-grade students taught with methods that used a structured overview to activate background knowledge, the cloze procedure to develop an inferential thinking strategy, and a self-monitoring checklist to maintain the strategy increased their inferential comprehension skills as measured by both immediate and delayed transfer…

Examines the effects of a 10-week program designed to heighten fifth- and eighth-grade students' awareness of information explicitly stated in text, implied by text, and found only in the individual's knowledge base. (FL)

Schwab's work in curriculum planning emphasizes the need for eclecticism and the legitimacy of an uncertain, practical orientation. This essay analyzes the effects of Schwab's theory and calls for a new language for education, to be formulated through practical contact with the processes of schooling. (MJL)

Examined the pattern of verbal subscale scores on the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale and Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-Revised given to college students (N=129) and elementary students (N=383). Results showed a triangle pattern (Comprehension scores higher than both Vocabulary and Information) that begins to appear at the…

Argues that literacy development should focus on thinking and speaking skills so that students can critically evaluate the oral and written rhetoric in their daily lives and become more articulate and lucid communicators. (HOD)

Two studies were conducted to obtain information about the metacognitive environment of the preschool child and the impact of parent-child communication on problem solving. Children working with parents showed improvement on several problem-solving measures, but children working alone also improved, solely as a result of practice. (Author/PP)

Reviews research on story grammar to show how crucial it is for readers of all ages to know how stories are structured. Examines implications for teaching and for choosing instructional materials. (FL)

Reports the results of a screening test used to identify fifth and sixth grade students who employ a text processing strategy based on an inaccurately constructed hypothesis about the material being read. (FL)

This study attempts to relate some characteristics of the social-emotional interaction to some characteristics of the cognitive interaction in the classroom. (Author/RK)