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Madrid-Barela, Arturo – Aztlan, 1973
Descriptors: Comprehension, Cultural Background, Culture Conflict, Disadvantaged
Devaney, Kathleen, Ed. – 1977
This collection of essays on teacher centers reports the thinking of teachers' centers participants and leaders as they endeavor to improve, sustain, and extend their programs. While the function of teacher centers is, in a broad sense, to encourage teachers to continue to grow in their profession and remain open to new educational innovations,…
Descriptors: Adoption (Ideas), Inservice Education, Instructional Innovation, Intellectual Development
Reisener, Helmut – Neueren Sprachen, 1975
Deals with problems arising in teaching English in the Hauptschule ("practical branch" secondary school, grades 7-10). Discusses, among other things, cultivation of the ability to understand the FL as a means of motivating the slow learner, with English teaching oriented toward projects and practical matters. (Text is in German.)…
Descriptors: Comprehension, English (Second Language), Intellectual Development, Language Instruction
Maratsos, Michael P.; Abramovitch, Rona – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1975
Five experiments are carried out to determine the comprehension of passives by children. Results obtained demonstrate that comprehension rests on knowledge of syntactic structure. V - NP were interpreted as verb-object. Passives lacking a preposition were interpreted as actives. Competence in passives may be at a high level before performance is…
Descriptors: Child Development, Child Language, Comprehension, Intellectual Development
Ayers, Jerry B.; Powell, Lacy D. – Nat Sch, 1969
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Curriculum, Early Childhood Education, Intellectual Development
Doby, John T.; And Others – 1980
Declining family size plus the widespread belief that only children experience adjustment difficulties provided the impetus for this investigation comparing the characteristics of only children with children raised in multiple-sibling families. Results indicated that being reared as an only child actually provided a slight developmental advantage…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Birth Order, Blacks, Children
Hunter, Madeline – 1976
Current teacher education is criticized, and suggestions are made for improvement. It is pointed out that an essential factor is missing from teacher education curriculum. This factor is the systematic translation of what is now known about human learning into teacher and learner behavior in the classroom. While the results of abundant research in…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Curriculum Development, Educational Television, Generalization
Hopper, Robert; Tilghman, Peter P. – 1979
Three studies tested the ability of children of different ages to comprehend spoken sentences while viewing pictures that differed from the sentences according to some plausible combinations of actor, action, and beneficiary. In the first two studies, involving a total of 140 subjects, nine contextual conditions were used, including sentence only,…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Comprehension, Cues, Early Childhood Education
Means, Barbara – 1980
Reported is an attempt to examine the nature of the reasoning used by college students who consistently erred on timer tape problems and a comparison of their performance with that of students who made logical responses. The author suggests that the poor performance of students, classified as intuitive responders, is a result of their use of an…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Educational Research, Higher Education
LOVELL, K. – 1961
THE RESEARCH OF LOVELL AND PIAGET IS CITED IN A DISCUSSION OF CONCEPT LEARNING IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL STUDENTS. FOLLOWING AN INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER ON CONCEPT FORMATION, THREE CHAPTERS ARE DEVOTED TO NUMBER CONCEPTS AND TO THE APPROACHES OF TEACHING THE NUMBER CONCEPTS OF STERN, CUISENAIRE AND GATTEGNO, PIAGET, AND DIENES. THE NEXT FOUR CHAPTERS DEAL…
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Educational Psychology, Elementary School Mathematics, Elementary School Science
Download full textMERCER, CHARLES V. – 1967
A SECONDARY ANALYSIS OF THE NASHVILLE COOPERATIVE READING PROJECT DATA IS REPORTED. TO DETERMINE THE EFFECT OF FAMILY-HOME VARIABLES ON READING ACHIEVEMENT, THE PEABODY CULTURAL OPPORTUNITY SCALE WAS GIVEN TO DISADVANTAGED FIRST GRADERS IN 12 ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS SERVING THE LOW SOCIOECONOMIC AREAS OF THE COMMUNITY. OBJECTIVE DATA WERE GATHERED ON…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Environment, Disadvantaged Youth, Educationally Disadvantaged, Environmental Influences
Bank Street Coll. of Education, New York, NY. – 1965
THE CURRENT INSTITUTE PROGRAM EVOLVED FROM A TRANSLATION OF FUNDAMENTAL CONCEPTS OF THE TEACHING-LEARNING PROCESS DEVELOPED BY BANK STREET COLLEGE. THE PSYCHO-EDUCATIONAL METHOD WAS BASED UPON THE PREMISES THAT INTELLECTUAL FUNCTIONING IS LIMITED BY PARTICULAR PATTERNS OF EMOTIONAL RESPONSE AND THAT THESE COGNITIVE FACTORS INTERACT TO SUPPORT OR…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged, Elementary School Teachers, Emotional Development, Inservice Education
BALL, RACHELL S.; STOTT, LELAND H. – 1963
AN INVESTIGATION AND EVALUATION OF TOTAL INFANT AND PRESCHOOL MENTAL TESTING SITUATIONS AND SOME CONCLUSIONS AS TO THE CURRENT NEEDS IN THIS AREA ARE PRESENTED. THESE APPROACHES ARE MADE TO THE PROBLEM. FIRST, THE THEORETICAL THINKING ON THE NATURE OF INTELLIGENCE AND HOW IT DEVELOPS IN CHILDREN IS TRACED. THERE HAS BEEN DISAGREEMENT OVER THE…
Descriptors: Child Development, Factor Analysis, Intellectual Development, Intelligence Tests
STODOLA, QUENTIN; AND OTHERS – 1962
AN EXPERIMENT WAS CONDUCTED IN A TYPICAL SCHOOL SITUATION TO DETERMINE IF VARIATIONS AMONG TEACHER PRESENTATIONS OF LISTENING TESTS (READING ABILITIES) HAVE DIFFERENT EFFECTS ON THE RESULTS OF THESE TESTS. LISTENING TESTS WERE ADMINISTERED TO PUPILS OF THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS IN FARGO, NORTH DAKOTA, AT THE HIGH SCHOOL, JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL, AND…
Descriptors: Auditory Tests, Comprehension, Films, Intellectual Development
TABA, HILDA; AND OTHERS – 1964
THE DEVELOPMENT OF THOUGHT PROCESSES UNDER OPTIMUM TRAINING CONDITIONS WAS STUDIED. OPTIMUM WAS DEFINED TO INCLUDE (1) A CURRICULUM FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF THOUGHT, (2) TEACHING STRATEGIES FOCUSED DIRECTLY ON MASTERY OF NECESSARY COGNITIVE SKILLS, AND (3) A SUFFICIENT TIME SPAN TO PERMIT A DEVELOPMENTAL TRAINING SEQUENCE. CHILDREN FROM 20…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Measurement, Cognitive Processes, Elementary Education
