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Boulton-Lewis, Gillian M. – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 1987
Describes study of elementary school children in Australia which was designed to determine their sequential knowledge of measuring length and to apply recent cognitive theories to predict the sequence of development of knowledge. Recent literature is reviewed, information processing skills are discussed, and skills required for measuring length…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Developed Nations, Elementary Education
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Waller, Patricia F. – Journal of Safety Research, 2003
Discusses research in North Carolina during the 1970s that lead to graduated driver licensing, some of the educational principles on which it is based, obstacles to its acceptance, and some of the early efforts to implement it in the United States and elsewhere. (Contains 1 figure and 17 references.) (AUTHOR/WFA)
Descriptors: Adolescent Behavior, Driver Education, Educational Strategies, Foreign Countries
Griffiths, Alan K.; Cornish, Alan G. – 1978
This paper reviews methods which have been used to identify and validate learning hierarchies. Specifically, three methods which reflect the notion of a relatively inviolate sequence are discussed and compared. Two of the psychometric methods compare pairs of skills, the ordering-theoretic method (Bart and Krus) and the test of inclusion (White…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Expectancy Tables, Foreign Countries, High Schools