Suggests that teachers develop techniques to teach students strategies used by good comprehenders: paraphrasing passages, sifting out meaningful word clusters, searching for supportive examples, and making deductions. (MKM)

Reports that recent research has shown that family socioeconomic status is less a factor in a youngster's IQ score than is the non-economic home environment. (SL)

This article briefly describes Piaget's theory of periods of intellectual growth and the impact his theories have had in teacher training, research, mathematics teaching, textbook development and their use in the British Infant, Junior, and Secondary schools. For journal availability, see SO 506 042. (JK)

Shows a wide variety of task performance ability. Supports the hypothesis that the tasks require the use of the same or a unified set of cognitive processes. (RL)

Four kinds of understanding of mathematics are suggested: instrumental, relational, intuitive, and formal. Each type of understanding is described and illustrated. (MN)

Concludes that children have a far broader range of intellectual interests than has generally been recognized. Bringing them into contact with fields of knowledge, methods of inquiry in these fields, and the processes of logical reasoning at a time when they have a natural receptivity which can have a fundamental impact on their intellectual…

Preschool children were required to act out a series of two-event sequences conjoined by either "before" or "after." Performance was markedly superior for meaningfully ordered sequences than for arbitrarily ordered sequences. It is suggested that the meanings of "before" and "after" must be acquired in situations which provide contextual support.…

Examines critically the viewpoint that the reason why some black students do well in school while other black students do poorly depends on the quality of the student's family life. Considers the major assumptions of this argument, as well as its ideological significance. (Author/RK)

The real intention of liberal education is the development of right intellectual reasoning about human experience, of which justice is the result. (MSE)

A discussion of legal scholarship for new law teachers looks at the objectives of scholarship, standards for assessing scholarly ability, and considerations for the teacher to make in choosing the kind of scholarship to pursue. (MSE)

Employed a cross-sectional comparison of 187 mid-level professional managers to assess the relationship of several work-related variables and perceived intellectual aging. Results supported the hypothesis that older managers would report more intellectual processing decline than younger managers, but that both young and old managers would see…

Explores the social and intellectual factors that account for the separation of ideology from works on rational argument. States that by attending to the ideological aspects of critical thinking, educators will more effectively prepare students to face the contemporary realities of social controversy. (GEA)

Comparison of a standardized production format measure, the Measure of Epistemological Reflection and an open-ended interview resulted in a high positive correlation to support the potential of standardized assessment of intellectual development. (Author/KS)

Study looks at pigtailed macaque in the context of visual recognition problems adapted from a standardized test developed for use with human infants. Results demonstrate that the low-risk group easily differentiated novel from previously seen targets; the high-risk group gave no evidence of recognition. (Author/RWB)