Seldom are college students introduced to theories that describe how they and other students change intellectually during their college years. Two epistemological perspectives on cognitive development in college students and how they can be presented to students are examined in this paper. The first perspective is William Perry's forms of…

This study considered differences in induction of biological properties between children and preadolescents based on differences in stimuli processing in these two groups. Two experiments tested predictions that young children, but not preadolescents, base their inductive inference on aggregating information from different sources rather than…

Argues that how a child and the television set intereact, and its success as instruction, is determined by the design of program content and the degree to which it reflects understanding of the developmental process, discussing two programs which attempt to present solid academic material to young children through television. (Author/JM)

Author offers a way of viewing cognitive development that will engender some possible answers'' in early childhood education more consistent with human and humane development. (Author/CB)

Communication is examined as a process generic to and compatible with the evolution of the neurologic substrates, the expression of emotion, and the developmental progression and acquisition of intelligence. (Author)

Proposed is a theory of cognitive integration to explain the observed failure that many black and Puerto Rican elementary school children experience in learning to read despite intensive efforts at remediation. (Author/DB)

Describes grade 9 student responses to instructional materials constructed on objectives derived from Piaget's balance and inclined place problems. Concludes the presence of a hierarchy only in the balance objectives. Indicates implications worthy of further studies. (CC)

Cognition research can be used to improve social studies textbook design. Salient findings from research dealing with information processing styles, developmental differences, retention of key materials, and instructional principles are reviewed. Illustrative implications of these findings for the design of social studies texts are presented.…

Children completed three types of equivalent cardination tasks which assessed the influence of different stimulus configurations (linear, linear-nonlinear, and nonlinear), and density of object spacing. Prior results reported by Siegel, Brainerd, and Gelman and Gallistel were not replicated. Implications for understanding cardination concept…

Two statistical indices of distinctness (intensity) were developed to measure patterns of cognitive preference scores. Results indicated a variety of cognitive preferences, and the distinctness variable was shown to be a useful tool in cognitive preference research. (CJ)