This annual report describes the results of the second year (academic year 1967-68) of research work done in the Child Development Research and Evaluation Center for Head Start at Temple University. Part One of this report discusses the Center's National Data Program and sets out in tabular form demographic and cognitive data obtained on 86 urban…

The purpose of this study was to replicate and slightly refine and extend the procedures of Houston and Otto, who pointed out the need for studying the relationship between easily administered, individual measures of intelligence with more diagnostic and more highly validated measures. (Author/RK)

The Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test is marketed as an instrument suitable for use by persons without special training in testing. A total of forty children, ranging from retarded to gifted, were tested in counter-balanced order by eight elementary school teachers and by three school psychologists. (Editor)

A study directed toward the education of preschool children is presented. This study, the Appalachia Preschool Education Program, was designed to affect the performance of children aged 3, 4, and 5 in four skill areas: orienting and attending, motor activity, language, and cognition. One of the instruments used in the evaluation of the program was…