Estimates confluence model of intellectual development for a within-family sample of 321 children from 101 transracial adoptive families. Mental ages of children and their parents and birth or adoption intervals were used in a nonlinear least-squares estimation procedure to obtain children's predicted mental ages. Results suggest efficiency of the…

Discusses the possible disruptive influence of computers on young children's play, the age at which children can benefit from using a computer language like LOGO, promoting cognitive development through experiences with computers, and whether playing with computers is actually play. (RH)

Explores a preschooler's repeated attraction to two books, and what it means in terms of the child's literacy before she learns to read. Describes the child's advancing critical skills. (HTH)

The paper discusses the major topics of software, examines research on the effectiveness of computer assisted instruction (CAI) for learning disabled adolescents, and suggests specific and creative uses of microcomputers in academic and cognitive skill development. (Author/CL)

The article proposes a model for developing leadership among gifted students. Four components of the model are identified and sample subskills described: cognition (exploration, research); problem solving (incubation, creative thinking); interpersonal communication (self realization, cooperation, conflict resolution); and decision making skills…

The paper reviews research on the issue of continuities and discontinuities in development, focusing on affective and cognitive-motivational aspects. The theoretical view of Rene Spitz is reviewed. Findings comparing abused/neglected and perinatal risk infant populations with normal infants illustrate differences in both affective and…

The relationships between three types of tasks were investigated with 428 children from kindergarten through grade 6 showing that correspondence, seriation, and transitivity reflected different underlying concepts. Thus, it was concluded that neither correspondence nor transitivity tasks can serve as replacements for traditional seriation tasks in…

The contemporary world is international in character, and students must develop a global perspective. Presents three different listing activities on global topics for upper elementary and intermediate students. Listing techniques develop the cognitive skills of fluency, flexibility, originality, and higher-order rule making. (CS)

Stresses the development of complex cognitive processes during adolescence and sees the challenge of the curriculum in the question of greater match between the learner's cognitive level and the material to learned. (JOW)

Presents a picture of future reading instruction conducted instantly through "brain language" and special devices. (FL)

Recognizes and praises the research of Margaret Donaldson for what it reveals about children's thinking and highlights three central contributions of her work to the understanding of children's language learning. (HOD)

Suggested are activities that might stimulate cognitive thought in students and which can be performed both in school and at home. (EB)

Two experiments compare listening and reading comprehension of sentences which follow Minimum Distance Principle and investiagte effect of composition of an experimental presentation list on performance. Implications for assessment of development of language competence are discussed. (Author/HS)

Tries to overcome deficiencies in devising and testing indices of syntax by synthesizing the insights of both American and English research and testing the syntactic aspect of Bernstein's elaborated and restricted codes with a large, systematically classified sample of Australian schoolchildren. (Author/RK)

Describes a study showing that mentally retarded children and mentally normal children do not differ fundamentally in cognitive development within the framework of a particular cognitive training. (Text is in French.) (AM)