Short essays written by 60 secon d and third grade children were analyzed in order to compare the global quality with the syntactic maturity contained therein. Global quality is a broad measure of the level of ability and development evidenced by the pupil in his particular writing. Syntactic maturity is a measure based on the existence of various…

Because the phenomenon of delayed graduation--the practice of prolonging the college career beyond the normal 4 years of undergraduate study--is so widespread researchers speculated that "continuers" might have certain common characteristics which would differentiate them as a group from "completers." The objective of this…

"The residential college concept is a symbol--a vital symbol--of a much larger concern, the humanization of student life and of American life in general." This conference was held to consider the residential college concept as a means of furthering the emotional and intellectual development of students. Nevitt Sanford, Dana L.…

Women who won National Merit Scholarships during the years 1956 through 1960 were followed up in 1965 to determine their marriage and/or career plans. Each of the 883 women was classified into one of five groups: (1) marriage only, (2) marriage with deferred career, (3) marriage with immediate career, (4) career only, and (5) uncertain. The…

The book contains selected speeches by Dr. J. R. Kidd delivered around the world during the last two decades. The author has related man's problems and progress with the nature and quality of education. The emphasis is on the relationship between the development of the faculties of the mind and the good of the society as well as the enrichment of…

Considered are optimal conditions for learning in the child care center serving preschool children. Discussed as aspects of learning based on real life experiences are provision for a rich environment, opportunities for learning about the world and space, learning one's way around, and learning about measuring numbers, time, days and seasons,…

The purpose of this study was to investigate further the relationship between sex and a decline of intellectual abilities during adolescence and to examine some personality differences between young women who declined in intellectual abilities during adolescence and those who did not. Differences examined were: need to be included, need to be…

At puberty differences in ability and interest in mathematics between the sexes appear, and they increase with age. This paper describes a special algebra workshop for gifted seventh-grade girls which was designed to improve their competence and accelerate their progress in mathematics, and to increase their awareness of career opportunities in…

This longitudinal study of children's drawings is designed to indicate important aspects of the socialization process through analysis of changes in children's drawings. The Draw-A-Classroom (DAC) Test was administered to 100 students between 1961 and 1966. Data was available from a total of eight test administrations, given in the period between…

The relative effects of chronological age, mental age, IQ or Piagetian task performance were investigated among 143 Ss of high, average, and low IQ. Two kinds of group comparisons were made on fifteen tasks: (1) groups of the same chronological age, but different mental age and IQ, and (2) groups of the same mental age, but different chronological…

In planning educational research, recognition needs to be made of five domains of learning: (1) motor skills, (2) verbal information, (3) intellectual skills, (4) cognitive strategies, and (5) attitudes. In being cognizant of these domains, the researcher is able to distinguish the parts of a content area which are subject to different…

Three major educational goals suggested for the child are: (1) that he learn to balance a concept of himself as both an individual and a group member; (2) that he became competent so that he will feel he can influence the events that affect his life; and (3) that he develop a positive sense of self-esteem. A transactional view of development and…

A course is presented which is designed for development of vocabulary and comprehension, on the assumption that the student is functioning at a minimum of grade four level in reading, has skills required to unlock language codes associated with phonetic structures, and is at a point in reading skill development where concentration can be placed on…

A study was conducted to investigate the predictive validity of parents' ability to attend to their children (ATA) on intelligence and to determine to what extent ATA and social class variables, in combination, can account for the discrepancy in the IQ scores of children of different races. Ss were 700 Head Start children. The criterion variables…

This is the second report on intellectual development of children 6-11 years of age in the noninstitutionalized population of the United States as estimated from the Vocabular and Block Design Subtest data of the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (WISC) obtained in the Health Examination Survey of 1963-65. It contains findings by selected…