The performance of 132 pre- and primary school children on a Bender-Gestalt copying task was compared with that of a multiple choice version. Significant correlation coefficients were obtained between the copying and recognition scores. The multiple choice version was also as successful as the copying test in predicting reading achievement scores.…

Research findings related to children's concepts of length, area, volume, weight and time are reviewed. Implications for instruction in measurement of these qualities are discussed. (SD)

After a general discussion of the purposes and methods of teaching measurement, teaching ideas for twelve specific measurement objectives are provided. (SD)

This study reports the results of a program focused on the amelioration of reading comprehension deficits in a sample of rural children. The results suggest that spatial skills operate causally on subsequent verbal acquisitions, and may be central to remediation of reading difficulties in children of low socioeconomic status. (Author/KC)

Relationships between cross modal functioning and reading achievement are examined and the available hypothesis concerning intersensory functioning and their concomitant educational implications are discussed. (HOD)

Taba objectives seek to modify teaching methods so that directive, teacher-dominated techniques, which encourage primarily the recall of cognitive information, are replaced by supportive instructional techniques, which encourage more complex levels of thinking such as drawing conclusions and inferences. (JD)

Suggests a parallelism between children's mastery of mental language and their thinking about the world. Recounts a study in which children's mastery of verbs was measured and a relationship between reading skill and looking to the text to justify answers was established. (AEW)

Explores children's perceptions of four aspects of marriage: expression of affection, companionship, tension, and marital power. (HOD)

Examines the reactions of children in grades 3-4, 7-8, and 11-12 to boys and girls whose behavior was either masculine-stereotyped or feminine-stereotyped along the dimensions of steadiness/excitability, adventurousness/timidity, and rudeness/politeness. (Author/HOD)

A review of research (particularly that conducted by N. Meier, T. Munro, and B. Lark-Horovitz et al.) about the nature of giftedness in the visual arts and focusing on creativity, imagination, aesthetic judgment, and perceptual ability, provides a basis for examining current assumptions and practices and a foundation for future research. (CB)

Examines whether young children, aged four to nine years old, are satisfied with their own method of drawing a familiar object, or whether they would ideally like to draw in a more advanced way but are hampered by production differences from achieving this aim. (HOD)

Examines how certain human brow and mouth gestures influence the attributions of social dominance made by children. Hypothesizes that stimulus photographs depicting adults with lowered-brow expressions or without smiles appear to be more dominant relative to photographs showing adults with raised-brow expressions or with smiles, respectively. (HOD)

Studies the ability of 5-month-old infants to recall temporal information and use temporal organization by training them to fixate a hierarchically structured or unstructured sequence of stimuli which appeared in four spatial positions. Results are interpreted within a temporal organizational framework; infants appear to use organization within…

Studies five-year-olds' relative number judgements of small and large number displays with and without perceptual aids. Children were found to respond to local rather than global density differences and to benefit from the provision of perceptual aids on both small and large number displays. (Author/AS)

Describes two experiments that examined the effects of quantity and depth of processing on elementary school children's time perception. (HOD)