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 the present investigation was to examine the relationship between the stages of cognitive development proposed by L.S. Vygotsky and by J. Piaget. (Author)

The major purpose of the study is an attempt to clarify some of the issues involved in the theoretical controversy that exists between Piagetian and American-Soviet positions. (Author)

This paper presents the research design for a longitudinal study of elementary school students, which will examine patterns of cognitive, affective, and social growth and identify the school and home variables which influence such growth. Shifts in dependent variables during a single school year will be examined during the initial year for all…

This research addressed the question of whether variations in instructional strategies which incorporate ideas from social learning theory lead to significant growth among bright underachievers. (Author/RK)

Tries to overcome deficiencies in devising and testing indices of syntax by synthesizing the insights of both American and English research and testing the syntactic aspect of Bernstein's elaborated and restricted codes with a large, systematically classified sample of Australian schoolchildren. (Author/RK)

This research was conducted to determine the cognitive development of high school seniors assigned to three academic tracks (Vocational, General, and College Preparatory). (Author/RK)

An experiment is reported on the effects of a moral education program based on cognitive-developmental theory, at the high school level. Students were pre-tested and post-tested on Kohlberg's Moral Judgment Scale. (Editor)

Investigates the relationship between cognitive developmental level and the ideal self in adolescence, sampling 223 male and female 12- and 13-, and 15- and 16-year-old working and middle class English comprehensive school students, hypothesizing that maturity of the ideal self would be related to cognitive development. (Author/RK)

Data gathered from three Papua New Guinea samples on a range of tasks derived from the theoretical positions of Piaget and Bruner were analyzed at the level of individual language/culture groups. (Editor)

The degree of relationship among measures of learning proficiency, cognitive development (following Piaget), school achievement in reading, mathematics, and spelling, and IQ among 79 low socioeconomic status black males attending the seventh grade in an inner-city school was examined. (Editor)

This study evaluates the results of innovation in teaching methodology in an American government college course. The assumption of the study was that organizing a course into modules which required students to be tested for proficiency after each module was presented would maximize student factual knowledge gain and would result in improved…

Traces history of instructional technology, including Skinner's work, Gagne's task analytic approach, and contemporary efforts associated with the cognitive revolution. It is suggested that an understanding of cognitive development improves earlier approaches by adapting them directly to students' cognitive development levels. Recent instructional…

The specific purpose of this research was to elicit preference judgments by children about slides of paintings representing five categories of subject matter and two broad categories of style from equal numbers of males and females at three different grade levels. The intention was to find some insight in the mediating factors that may influence a…

Two experiments investigated developmental aspects of the two components of scientific reasoning: induction and deduction. In the first experiment, 98 subjects, ages 5 through 11, inductively identified four silhouetted pictures by removing, one at a time and in any sequence, as few covering pieces as possible. Results indicated that: (a) the…