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Palmer, Francis H. – Children, 1969
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Concept Teaching, Discovery Learning, Early Childhood Education
Coleman, Edmund B.; Morton, Charles E. – Educational Technology, 1976
The potential of television as an educational tool for increasing the intellectual competencies of preschoolers is discussed. (DB)
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Educational Television, Experimental Programs, Intellectual Development
Download full textYoung, Beverly S. – 1969
The major question this study attempted to answer was, "Can conservation of number, area, weight, mass, and volume to be induced and retained by 3- and 4-year-old children by structured instruction with a multivariate approach? Three nursery schools in Iowa City supplied subjects for this study. The Institute of Child Behavior and Development…
Descriptors: Concept Teaching, Conservation (Concept), Experimental Programs, Geometric Concepts
Thompson, Kathy Seric – 1969
The objective of this study was to modify negative racial evaluations in preschool white middle-class children through an experimental reading program consisting of storybooks presenting black figures in a favorable light. The sample consisted of 39 white middle-class children divided into control and experimental groups, and the materials were…
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, Black Influences, Classroom Environment, Experimental Programs
DEAL, THERRY N.
AN EXPERIMENTAL TRAINING PROGRAM DESIGNED TO TEACH 1 TO 1 CORRESPONDENCE TO PRESCHOOL CHILDREN WAS TESTED TO SEE WHAT EFFECT IT MIGHT HAVE ON THEIR UNDERSTANDING OF NUMBER CONSERVATION. THIRTY-FIVE CHILDREN OF AGES 3, 4, AND 5 WERE RANDOMLY DIVIDED INTO 3 EXPERIMENTAL AND 3 CONTROL GROUPS. THE EXPERIMENTAL GROUPS WERE TRAINED TO PERFORM 1 TO 1…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Analysis of Variance, Concept Teaching, Experimental Programs
Gladkowski, Gerald James – 1971
In considering the apparent failure of the two major compensatory education programs, Project Head Start and Title I, there are so many uncontrolled variables interacting simultaneously that it is virtually impossible to define the specific etiological factors engendering the results obtained. The Federal programs are difficult to evaluate because…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Compensatory Education, Disadvantaged Youth, Evaluation Criteria
Carlson-Kest, Evelyn – 1969
The development of children's language skills was studied in an experimental research project involving programmed versus incidental instruction in a prekindergarten program. It was hypothesized that children who attended a prekindergarten with programed instruction would score significantly higher on language skills tests than would a comparable…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Early Childhood Education, Educationally Disadvantaged, Experimental Programs
Pyykkonen, Maija-Liisa – 1973
This Information Bulletin contains an introduction and three articles on preschool education. The introduction notes the unsolved problem of providing care outside the home for children below the school age of seven, day care and preschool education being the alternatives considered. The first article "Pre-school Education in Finland"…
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Day Care, Early Childhood Education, Educational Change
