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VANCE, BARBARA J. – 1967
FIFTY DISADVANTAGED CHILDREN, RANGING IN AGE FROM 33 TO 56 MONTHS, PARTICIPATED IN A 7-MONTH PRESCHOOL EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM DESIGNED TO IMPROVE THEIR LANGUAGE AND SOCIAL SKILLS. THE ILLINOIS TEST OF PSYCHOLINGUISTIC ABILITIES, THE PEABODY PICTURE VOCABULARY TEST (FORM A), AND THE VANCE LANGUAGE SKILLS TEST MEASURED THE CHILDREN'S DEVELOPMENT IN…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Early Experience, Environmental Influences, Experimental Programs
Bouchard, Ruth A.; Mackler, Bernard – 1967
In a prekindergarten program in the economically disadvantaged area of Harlem, the teacher, curriculum, daily activities, behavior, school, and parents of the 15 enrolled children were studied. Evaluations emphasized the outcomes of learning rather than the social, emotional, and intellectual processes of learning. The following conclusions were…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Disadvantaged, Intelligence Quotient, Literature Reviews
Schneider, Elsa, Ed. – 1960
A joint committee from the American Association for Health, Physical Education and Recreation and the Department of Rural Education, NEA, developed this handbook for physical education for rural youth. General needs of children in relation to physical fitness and social development are discussed. The major portion of the document consists of games…
Descriptors: Community Resources, Facilities, Games, Group Activities
Cervenka, Edward John – 1968
This battery of test instruments is one of a set of three developed for use in the study of bilingual (English-Spanish) instruction programs and other compensatory programs in Texas. The socialization inventory has been based on a sociological view of personality as a developing and changing entity. Four submeasures of socialization are included…
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Bilingualism, Disadvantaged, Elementary School Students
Kurdek, Lawrence A. – 1975
The development of perceptual, cognitive, and affective perspective taking and empathy was investigated in 96 kindergarten through third-grade children. Cognitive perspective taking was found to increase between second and third grades. Affective perspective taking, in situations controlling for the likelihood of the subjects' projecting their own…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Behavior Patterns, Cognitive Development, Emotional Development
Bauer, Elinor L. – 1973
This paper suggests a variety of learning experiences for parents to provide for their young children from birth to age 5. The introduction stresses the need for many kinds of verbal communication between parents and child and presents a discussion of crying behaviors and the importance of reading to children. Talking and listening activities are…
Descriptors: Childhood Needs, Cognitive Development, Early Childhood Education, Emotional Development
Yawkey, Thomas D.; Silvern, Steven B. – 1974
This paper presents an outline of kindergarten goals for the seventies along with specific suggestions for supporting classroom activities. The kindergarten goals are divided into four developmental areas: (1) Cognitive or Intellectual Development (with emphasis on concept development, or "content skills" and mastery or "process skills"); (2)…
Descriptors: Affective Objectives, Cognitive Objectives, Developmental Programs, Educational Assessment
Apfel, Nancy; Brion, LaRue – 1974
This package contains five home-based intervention curricula for families with children between 12 and 30 months of age. Three independent curricula (each emphasizing children's language, play or social development) enlist the mother's aid as observer, teacher and researcher, and promote a three-way interaction among mother, child, and…
Descriptors: Child Rearing, Home Programs, Home Visits, Infants
Despert, J. Louise – 1975
Children's emotional development from infancy through adolescence, is described through brief anedcotes and through photographs. Psychological explanations of child behavior are discussed. Children's reactions to parents, siblings, and peers, and to experiences such as pain, discovering one's body, eating, exploring, and visiting the doctor are…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Child Development, Cognitive Development, Cross Cultural Studies
Collins, Michael T.; Rudolph, James M. – 1975
Presented is a manual for program assessment of the deaf-blind child's development. In the introduction, it is stressed that the manual is not intended to be a curriculum guide and that scale items are not designed to replace the objectives and activities of the child's curriculum. Assessment checklists are color-coded according to the following…
Descriptors: Check Lists, Child Development, Cognitive Development, Deaf Blind
Oklahoma State Univ., Stillwater. Coll. of Education. – 1976
As the first in a four-volume series on the Oklahoma Indian Education Needs Assessment Project, this report presents: an overview of the entire project; a summary of the perceptions and current status of Oklahoma Indian education; and conclusions and recommendations. Survey instruments are identified as the Educational Goals and Needs Survey and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, American Indians, Delivery Systems, Economic Factors
Selman, Robert L. – 1975
This paper presents a structural-developmental model of social cognition and discusses the implications of this approach for social intervention research. This model of social development is concerned with social reasoning and judgment. The basic assumption of this model of social cognition is that the structure of social reasoning develops…
Descriptors: Child Development, Children, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes
Bureau of Indian Affairs (Dept. of Interior), Washington, DC. – 1973
Briefly describing each tribe within Arizona's four major American Indian groups, this handbook presents information relative to the cultural background and socioeconomic development of the following tribes: (1) Athapascan Tribes (Navajos and Apaches); (2) Pueblo Indians (Hopis); (3) Desert Rancheria Tribes (Pimas, Yumas, Papagos, Maricopas,…
Descriptors: American Indian Reservations, American Indians, Cultural Background, Cultural Differences
Shick, Richard L., Ed.; Stitch, Thomas F., Ed. – 1974
Presented is a curriculum guide for preschool handicapped children revised by a summer workshop group of 30 teacher trainees. Part One is an overview of basic considerations in developing, organizing and administering early childhood programs. Provided are checklists for identifying such handicaps as behavior disorders, learning disabilities and…
Descriptors: Administration, Check Lists, Creative Development, Curriculum Guides
Bronson, Martha B. – 1975
This address presents a discussion of the rationale, procedures, reliability, and validity of the "Social and Nonsocial Executive Skills Profile." The skills profile was developed to identify and measure aspects of the preschool child's classroom behavior that are highly related to social and nonsocial competence. Executive competence is defined…
Descriptors: Classroom Observation Techniques, Evaluation, Guides, Interaction Process Analysis
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