The work of Jean Piaget stresses the point that intellectual functioning and growth from one stage of cognitive development to the next depends more on the quality of one's experience than on exposure to factual knowledge. Piaget's theoretical model and its implications and applications for the classroom teacher are reviewed. (Editor/RK)

This book presents a case for the development of classrooms in which students are encouraged to construct deep understandings of important concepts. The book contains 3 parts with 10 chapters. Part 1, "The Call for Constructivism," includes (1) "Honoring the Learning Process," (2) "Considering the Possibilities," and (3) "Coming to Know One's…

A cross-sectional study examined age differences in children's conceptions of early U.S. history. Students in grades 2, 3, 6, and 8 (n=281) were asked to respond to a question about how the United States became a country. Their essays show significant changes with age. Older students were more likely to include errors of historical fact in their…

Author suggests that variations in the functioning of imagination result in variations in mental aptitudes and expressions and expressions, and these variations serve as a guide, according to which the scope of an individual mind may be recognized. (Author/RK)

Study tests four predictions derived from Piaget's cognitive theory. (CB)

In general, this cross-sectional validation study supports Inhelder and Piaget's claims about the development of concepts of volume and density more easily than younger subjects. (Author/WY)

Speed and acceleration tasks were administered to children in grades three through six. Piaget's results were replicated. Suggestions concerning the appropriate grade level to introduce different types of motion tasks are made. (AL)

Reviews a definition of intelligence consonant with research findings and current as well as previous conceptions which opens the way to a theoretical and clinically applicable conception. Reprints available from author, Psychology Department, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15219. (Author/EK)

A combination of readiness and body-part training was the most effective in producing number conservation with external objects. (Authors)

Reviews the nature of the spiral approach in the teaching of mathematics and illustrates its use with an example of teaching place value by presenting eight different expressions of this concept. The spiral approach involves building an idea, concept or an algorithm at different times in different manners. (PR)

The authors challenge proponents of informal open classrooms" as well as of traditional school organization. (Editor)

Data from an earlier study of a cognitively based English-language training program for 67 Mexican American Head Start children were reanalyzed using meta-analysis. Spanish as the language of instruction resulted in larger effect sizes. Recently expressed doubts about the efficacy of beginning instruction in non-English speakers' native languages…