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Spoelders, Marc – Scientia Paedagogica Experimentalis, 1972
Paper tries to review some preliminary ideas to and underlying the setting up of an educational experiment in English as a second foreign language for children aged 10-12. (Author)
Descriptors: Educational Experiments, English (Second Language), Grade 3, Language Research
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Politzer, Guy; Van der Henst, Jean-Baptiste; Delle Luche, Claire; Noveck, Ira A. – Cognitive Science, 2006
We present a set-theoretic model of the mental representation of classically quantified sentences (All P are Q, Some P are Q, Some P are not Q, and No P are Q). We take inclusion, exclusion, and their negations to be primitive concepts. We show that although these sentences are known to have a diagrammatic expression (in the form of the Gergonne…
Descriptors: Models, Sentence Structure, Semantics, Prediction
Jerman, Max; Mirman, Sanford – 1973
This paper reports on an experiment designed to investigate the effect of structural and linguistic variables on level of difficulty in solving arithmetic word problems. Identification of such variables is intended to assist curriculum writers in preparing exercises at a specified level of difficulty for students at various age levels. The study…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Arithmetic, Curriculum Development, Educational Experiments