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Research Data on the Measure of Epistemological Reflection: Measuring the Perry Scheme.
Taylor, Marcia B; Porterfield, William D. – 1984
This paper describes the Measure of Epistemological Reflection (MER), an instrument to assess cognitive developmental level according to the Perry scheme of intellectual and ethical development. It contains sets of questions for each of the six cognitive domains: decision making, learner role, instructor role in the learning process, peer role in…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Tests, Epistemology, Higher Education
An Examination of the Stability of the Bayley Scales of Infant Development with High-Risk Infants.
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Cook, Martha J.; And Others – Journal of Early Intervention, 1989
Eighty at-risk infants were administered the Mental and Motor Scales of the Bayley Scales of Infant Development at 6 and 12 months of age. Test-retest reliability scores of .71 on the Mental Scale and .69 on the Motor Scale were obtained. (Author/JDD)
Descriptors: Child Development, Cognitive Development, Diagnostic Tests, High Risk Persons
A Factor Analytic Study of the HOME Scale for Infants.
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Stevens, Joseph H., Jr.; Bakeman, Roger – Developmental Psychology, 1985
A factor analysis was conducted on Home Observation for Measurement of the Environment (HOME) item scores of low-income black and white urban mothers of infants 13 to 30 months of age to determine the extent to which the existing subscales were evident in this factor analysis.
Descriptors: Blacks, Cognitive Development, Factor Analysis, Infants
Intellectual Development within Transracial Adoptive Families: Retesting the Confluence Model.
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Berbaum, Michael L.; Moreland, Richard L. – Child Development, 1985
Estimates confluence model of intellectual development for a within-family sample of 321 children from 101 transracial adoptive families. Mental ages of children and their parents and birth or adoption intervals were used in a nonlinear least-squares estimation procedure to obtain children's predicted mental ages. Results suggest efficiency of the…
Descriptors: Achievement, Children, Cognitive Development, Family Influence
Problem Mapping before Problem Solving: Young Children's Cognitive Maps and Search Strategies in Large-Scale Environments.
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Anooshian, Linda J.; And Others – Child Development, 1984
Results of two studies suggested that acquisition of route mapping during the preschool years provides a means of organizing spatial information and internal representations necessary for successful problem solving in general. (Author/RH)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Mapping, Early Experience
Continuity in Mental Development from Infancy.
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Bornstein, Marc H.; Sigman, Marian D. – Child Development, 1986
Reviews bases for contemporary discontinuity theories of mental development, presents findings that support alternative proposition of continuity and scrutinizes assessment methods from which these continuity results derive. Also offers several models that help explain the continuity findings, and argues that individual differences in mental…
Descriptors: Attention, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Developmental Continuity
Measures of Social Cognitive Development: Interpersonal Conflict Resolution and Social Rule Understanding.
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Jose, Paul E.; Hennelly, Sheila – 1987
This study sought to validate two measures of social cognitive development: a measure of conflict resolution (Shantz and Shantz, 1982), and a social rule measure (Shantz, 1982). Participants were 214 kindergarten through fourth grade children from two suburban schools, one a public school and the other a Catholic parochial school in the Chicago…
Descriptors: Children, Cognitive Development, Conflict Resolution, Elementary School Students