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Peer reviewedDeming, Basil S. – Social Studies, 1976
A model for sequencing intellectual skills through the use of learning hierarchies is provided. Applications of this model to social studies education are included. (DE)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Elementary Secondary Education, Intellectual Development, Learning Processes
Peer reviewedWollman, Warren – Science Education, 1977
Defines five levels between concrete and formal operation in the development of the concept of controlling variables. The sample, methodology and research on which the work is based is described in SE 519 500. (CP)
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Cognitive Development, Concept Formation, Developmental Psychology
Download full textKlausmeier, Herbert J. – 1975
This study tested certain implied predictions regarding conceptual learning at each of four sequential levels of development: concrete level, identity level, classificatory level, and formal level. For this purpose, scaled batteries to assess the level of conceptual development of children, kindergarten through high school, were constructed and a…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Age Differences, Cognitive Development, Concept Formation
Peer reviewedSavage, Louise; Lombardi, Thomas P. – B.C. Journal of Special Education, 1993
This article describes methods for teaching higher level thinking skills to children. A four-step teaching plan utilizing Beyer's Taxonomy of thinking skills provides a sequential technique for teaching these skills as do increased verbal interaction, skillful questioning, and use of knowledge organizers. The I PLAN strategy can aid decision…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Cognitive Development, Decision Making Skills, Elementary Secondary Education
Peer reviewedEulie, Joseph – Social Studies, 1988
Examines the relationship between teaching content or knowledge, and teaching the skills of critical thinking and problem solving. Presents key strategies to help students understand and develop critical thinking skills. Recommends use of the developmental lesson and provides several model lessons. (LS)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Course Content, Critical Thinking, Decision Making
Peer reviewedCampbell, Mark Robin – Bulletin of the Council for Research in Music Education, 1991
Reviews theoretical frameworks and psychological processes underlying the perception and cognition of musical understanding. Suggests unifying ideas and processes based on a developmental learning framework applied to teaching methods and curriculum. Supplies six guidelines for music education practitioners who are sequencing learning activities…
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Child Development, Cognitive Development, Curriculum Development
McMullen, Victoria B. – 1986
This curriculum provides a sequence of activities designed to help develop cognitive and communication skills in severely and profoundly multi-handicapped individuals who are functioning between 0 and 24 months. Based on the principles that communication begins at birth and that educational programming must begin at the point where the handicapped…
Descriptors: Assistive Devices (for Disabled), Child Development, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes
