Reported is a method of investigating thought processes of an 11-year-old girl concerning physical phenomena such as those underlying the operations of scientific apparatus--platform balance, the spring balance, the magnet, and the pendulum. It was discovered during a period of interviews that the subject's thought processes developed in such a…

The symposium on research into preschool education was the second in a series designed to facilitate exchange of views, experiences and other information among educational researchers. This volume contains a selection of the papers presented. The following are noted in the conclusions of the symposium: (1) preschool education should work in close…

The purpose of the study was to inquire into student learning of geometrical concepts, and the order and organization of those concepts relative to visual experience, while paying attention to their logical organization within the structure of mathematics. A test battery comprised of visual illusions, problems requiring interpretation of pictorial…

The purpose of the study was to examine the informal and more formal mathematical notions of children of ages four to six, and to evaluate the interaction between these two sets of notions. Two groups of problems were given to 60 children. The first included 14 Quantity Tasks in the form of stories which were illustrated by manipulable items. The…

This study was conducted to find out whether extending the kindergarten day with individualized curricula would produce differences in achievement great enough to warrant the increased cost. Two pilot studies were conducted in this large suburban school district, using kindergartens from four of 17 elementary schools. Two of the schools served…

This volume is the last of three which report the results of the five-year Education Improvement Program in Durham, North Carolina. Volume III consists of abstracts of special studies conducted by the investigators in the program. Some of the studies have been published in professional journals. The three volumes, together, constitute the final…

Lexical development in mentally retarded and normal children was indexed using the Free Word Association Task. Approximately 170 institutionalized and noninstitutionalized retarded children and 59 normal children were administered the 40-word stimulus list consisting mainly of adjectives and nouns. Responses were categorized according to apparent…

Described is a technological/academic approach to the educational therapy of an autistic child that begins with a theory of thinking and problem postulation and a theory of cognitive and personality development. The theory of thinking and problem postulation is said to be based on the unique characteristic of the human being, the art of being able…

The methodology and theory of instruction, with special reference to science education, are discussed from the point of view of cognitive deep structure fields. Important difficulties with standard approaches are pointed out, and new avenues for the development of didactical theory are indicated. In Part I of the discussion, a conceptualization of…

A survey of the evidence shows that some degrees of malnutrition is relatively widespread among poor children. However, the effects of inadequate nutrition on growth and mental development depend to a large extent on the severity, the timing (pre and postnatal), and the duration of the nutritional deprivation. The data are inadequate on the true…

The hypothesis of this Canadian study was that attitudes toward authority of French-English bilinguals would differ from the attitudes of French and English unilinguals toward authority. Student subjects responded to questionnaires using Likert scales to measure hostility, acceptance, anxiety, and neutrality toward authority. Analysis of variance…

A study was conducted to measure the degree to which groups of infants could generalize color across objects of different forms and sizes and generalize from across objects of different color and sizes and to see whether color or form would dominate in their generalizations. Ss were 8-13-month-old Caucasian infants. All tests had 16 Ss except the…

This 25-item scale for rating prekindergarten children concerns personal and cognitive skills. Directions for using the scale are provided. Personal skills include personal hygiene, communication skills, eating habits, relationships with the teacher, peer relations, and personal behavior. Cognitive skills rated are verbal skills, object…

Six studies are summarized in which repeatable methods were tested in quasi-experimental settings to test hypotheses relating to a cognitive approach to counseling. In each study, a repeatable mode of counseling was developed, research counselors were trained to a high level of competence, their performance was validated by tape recordings,…

The study of children's group formation employs Piaget's cognitive-development theory along with ethological concepts and methods used in the naturalistic study of the social behavior of animals. It represents the first application of ethological ideal to a study of the child's conception of his social world, and focuses on his conceptions of the…