The Maryland career course is a one-credit career planning course for undecided undergraduates based on William Perry's (1970) model of intellectual and ethical development. The Perry model can be described using four major and sometimes overlapping divisions which represent a series of positions on learning, i.e., Dualism, Multiplicity,…

Reasoning and logical thinking can be defined and explained from different perspectives. Three approaches are reviewed in this report; they are: (1) the logical structure approach; (2) the Piagetian approach of developmental stages; and (3) the information processing or memory approach. Four hypotheses related to these approaches were investigated…

The purpose of this review of selected literature is to further extend knowledge about the effects of Head Start on cognitive development. From a comprehensive collection of over 1,400 documents concerning Head Start, 71 studies were selected for review and coded to permit a meta-analytic, quantitative analysis of findings. The coding system…

Several writers have suggested that changes in temporal perspective during adolescence are largely a consequence of the cognitive acquisitions held to characterize the period (i.e., emergence of formal operations reasoning). To replicate earlier research, which found little association between adolescents' formal operations reasoning and future…

This article proposes to simplify scientific sociology for teaching at the precollege level in order to bring the discipline to bear on real social problems that affect the everyday life and human development of the high school student and is within the student's intellectual capability. (Author/DE)

This article discusses the appropriateness to the high school curriculum of the content, methods, perspectives, and concepts of sociology. It interprets research on cognitive and moral development to suggest that curriculum should be designed to provide occasions and stimulation to those students who are ready or reaching for growth in…

In a study, few subjects accepted empirical evidence of nonconservation of discontinuous quantity and weight. These findings were interpreted as support for the organismic-developmental claim that lower forms of reasoning are transformed into structurally more advanced forms. (Author/ED)

Article presented an analytical summary of some of the main features of lifelong education (and the process of lifelong learning which it presumably facilitates), together with some critical review. (Author/RK)

This paper suggests teaching techniques which utilize relevancy to help make learning facts and information more effective. Teaching strategies which create a state of conflict within learner are most basic psychological learning processes teachers need to understand and utilize in the classroom. (Author/EK)

The portions of Inequality: A Reassessment of the Effect of Family and Schooling in America (Jencks, et al 1972) concerned with inequality in cognitive skills and estimating the heritability of IQ scores are reviewed. For related articles see TM 501 196-200. (MLP)

Ways in which parents, the media and commercial educational materials contribute to the development of erroneous number concepts in pre-school children are identified. Cautions against these practices are suggested which include the use of more than one set of numerals for representing numbers. (JP)

Presents one educator's opinion concerning the need to think carefully before deciding to teach science to streamed groups of students (Sectioned on the basis of intelligence test scores) or to individualize science content for students in schools in the United Kingdom. (PEB)

Article sought to look at the evidence for educational deprivation and to examine the theory in regard to language acquisition. (Author/RK)

Children, 24-36 months old, were studied in an effort to examine the influence of cognitive development on the nature of information extracted from stimuli and coded into memory. (ST)

In this study, two cognitive-psychomotor tasks (dry mounting and laminating) were programed and a hardware delivery system, featuring an auto-program stop and slide synchronization capability, was developed and tested. (Author)