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Alexander, Theron – 1969
In a discussion of psychological development separate sections are devoted to (1) biological and cultural influences on development, (2) development in infancy, early childhood, middle childhood, and adolescence, (3) physiological foundations of behavior, (4) motivation and cognitive development, (5) intellectual development, (6) imagination and…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Behavior Development, Biological Influences
Download full textGuess, Doug; And Others – 1969
The utilization of non-professional personnel as language teachers was investigated using forty residents and an equal number of controls who were matched on the variables of CA, IQ, and Language Age (mean CA 13.28 and mean IQ 33). Two former psychiatric aids were trained as language developmentalists by classroom experiences, informal discussions…
Descriptors: Exceptional Child Research, Institutionalized Persons, Intellectual Development, Language Acquisition
Walston, Herman Ervin – 1974
This paper presents suggestions and guidelines for planning creative outdoor learning environments and experiences for young children. The discussion focuses on the fact that children learn more readily and develop better physically, intellectually, emotionally, and socially when their play is allowed to be creative and innovative in nature. The…
Descriptors: Child Development, Childrens Games, Creative Development, Design Requirements
Jennings, Kay D. – 1974
In this study, preferences for activities with people vs. objects were examined in preschool children and related to two kinds of intellectual abilities. Children with high object orientation were expected to be relatively advanced in organizing and classifying physical objects. In contrast, children with high people orientation were expected to…
Descriptors: Activities, Cognitive Ability, Early Experience, Intellectual Development
Ball, Rachel S. – 1971
The present report is the fourth of a series concerned with mental functioning and its development in early childhood. The study attempted to discover whether the same children tested at intervals of one or more years showed similar development in thinking ability from age to age. Longitudinal test protocols were obtained for 92 children at 3…
Descriptors: Ability, Age Differences, Aptitude, Convergent Thinking
Jester, R. Emile – 1971
Although the controversy surrounding beginning reading instruction has often centered on the age at which it should be begun, i.e., at the ages of 5, 6, or 7, the position was taken in this study that by the time the child reaches these ages, it is too late for optimum development of reading readiness. As a part of a larger study, groups of…
Descriptors: Developmental Psychology, Early Childhood Education, Infant Behavior, Intellectual Development
Melcer, Donald; And Others – 1970
This is a report of the therapeutic unit developed under the auspices of Head Start for the education of atypical low income children who cannot be contained in regular Head Start classrooms. The primary objective for this first year descriptive phase was to determine if the teaching staff could work productively with six pupils who presented a…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Educational Therapy, Home Visits, Intellectual Development
Stewart, Elneita Wallace – 1971
A reading improvement program for student teachers was designed to help them to (1) understand the reading process, (2) secure fundamental reading skills, (3) read critically and comprehend aesthetic aspects of certain types of reading materials, (4) integrate and apply problem solving skills, and (5) understand the importance of vocabulary to…
Descriptors: College Programs, Comprehension, Developmental Reading, Intellectual Development
Karlin, Robert – 1973
Teachers can help students develop abilities to enable them to read subject-oriented materials with better understanding. The purpose is not to conduct a lesson in reading comprehension, but to establish purposes for reading, develop word competency, search for surface and deeper meanings, and evaluate information and ideas gained through reading.…
Descriptors: Comprehension, Context Clues, Critical Reading, Evaluative Thinking
Kuzma, Kay – 1970
The major objectives of this study were: (1) to determine if there were measurable differences in autonomy between Mexican-American and Negro children, (2) to determine the effects of three different preschool intervention programs upon the development of autonomy in Mexican-American and Negro children, and (3) to determine the relationship…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Behavioral Science Research, Blacks, Comparative Analysis
Quereshi, M. Y. – 1971
The present study was designed to (1) investigate the changes in the structure and organization of mental abilities during childhood and adolescence of 514 students as sampled by the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (5 to 15 years) and the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (16 to 18 Years) and (2) interpret, and possibly modify, the…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Children, Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Development
Bryson, Carolyn Q.; Hingtgen, Joseph N. – 1972
The annotated bibliography on early childhood psychosis (infantile autism, childhood schizophrenia, and related disorders) contains 424 entries (books, journal articles, conference and research reports) dating from 1964 through the first 6 months of 1970, which pertain to theory, research, and treatment. Number of entries for each subject is noted…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Autism, Clinical Diagnosis, Emotional Disturbances
Muller, Douglas G.; Leonetti, Robert – 1970
In this report of the final evaluation of the Las Cruces (New Mexico) Sustained Primary Program for Bilingual Students (funded under Title III of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act), the major findings for the academic years of 1967-8, 68-9, and 69-70 are cited following a program description in terms of schools, students, teachers, class…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Bilingual Education, Bilingual Students, English (Second Language)
Castro, Margarita, Ed.; Forero, Fanny, Ed. – 1971
This document provides a classification of educational objectives in the cognitive and affective domains, defines each objective, and offers examples. Special emphasis is not given to any particular objective; it is left to the teachers in a given program to determine the specific objectives to be derived in each learning experience within the…
Descriptors: Affective Objectives, Attention, Child Development, Classification
England, J. Lynn; And Others – 1976
Sample populations from 15 Intermountain West communities (representative of population, ethnic, and employment variety) were surveyed to test the following hypotheses: (1) there is a greater degree of consensus in rural than in non-rural communities; (2) there are differences between values in rural and non-rural communities; (3) a model…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Community Attitudes, Community Characteristics, Comparative Analysis
