An adolescent's learning patterns are developed throughout the student's socialization process, suggesting that peer pressure may influence learning. Female college students (N=15) aged 19-21 participated in a pencil-maze learning task performed while blindfolded. The task was presented in three categories of stimuli conditions: (1) normal…

The paper describes the Boel-test, a measure for early (as young as 7 or 8 months) diagnosis of a communication handicap. The importance of stimulation is pointed out, and test procedures and statistics are reported. It is concluded that the early detection of a potential risk child should be followed by immediate action. (SBH)

Man's long period of cerebral growth has important implications for education. The brain goes through major developmental changes after birth, and researchers have suggested that this growth process presents an opportunity for fostering the plasticity of genetically determined connections. Animal studies show that postnatal growth of the brain is…

This paper describes the evolution of the Children's Television Workshop, which was originally suggested in a study made by Joan Ganz Cooney for the Carnegie Corporation, and which was responsible for the development and production of the daily, 1-hour educational program, "Sesame Street:" As envisioned in the Carnegie proposal, the…

Task analysis is a procedure having the purpose of identifying different kinds of performances which are outcomes of learning, in order to make possible the specification of optimal instructional conditions for each kind of outcome. Task analysis may be related to content analysis in two different ways: (1) it may be used to identify the probably…

This workbook, directed toward the non-reader, was designed for the New Orleans Parent Child Developmental Center's Infant Program. It offers parents day-by-day suggestions for stimulating infants from birth to six months. Experiences related to the child's visual, auditory, muscular and language development, as well as hints on routine and…

Research on interaction and environment as factors in infant development is reviewed, descriptions of developmental stages and their implications for curriculum are discussed, and suggestions for using the "developmental roles" perspective in handicapped and normal infant education are outlined. Optimal experiences for infants and…

Compared the task performance of children under high levels of variable auditory and visual distraction, reduced stimulation as achieved by cubicles, and normal environmental conditions where no effort was made to raise or lower the level of external stimulation. (Author/AM)

Described is Real-Life Math, a reality-simulation game, which was field-tested with five junior and senior high school classes for educable mentally retarded students. (SBH)

Normal infants were administered the Bayley Scales of Infant Development at 6 months and the Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale at 3 years. At 6 months the quality of stimulation found in the early environment was measured. Results indicate that home environment may contribute to instability of performance on infant tests. (GO)

Vocal and object-directed behaviors of parents and infants were examined according to the social-construction view of development. Interactions of 66 infant-parent dyads were observed. Normative changes and stability of individual differences of joint-action variables and the relation of these variables to 30-month cognitive-development status…

Suggests that the motivational level produced through active learning can significantly influence learning progress. Lists a variety of specific movement activities for enriching elementary social studies. Concludes that movement activities can be successfully implemented in a variety of academic settings. (DH)

To test hypotheses concerning interactional histories associated with variation in quality of infant-mother attachment, data were gathered during naturalistic home observations of 60 infants 1, 3, and 9 months of age. Responses were elicited on the Ainsworth and Wittig strange situations. Results concerned mothers' relatively greater influence in…