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Albrecht, Karl – Training, 1981
The wide range of practical thinking skills are teachable and learnable. By treating thinking as a teachable subject, trainers can help people develop and increase their brain power. (SK)
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Processes, Intellectual Development, Learning Processes
Training in Spatial Conceptualization: Teacher Directed Activity, Automated and Combination Programs
Miller, Jack W.; and others – J Exp Educ, 1969
Project of the Institute on School Learning and Individual Differences and The John F. Kennedy Center for Research on Education and Human Development, George Peabody College for Teachers.
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Intellectual Development, Perceptual Development, Programed Instruction
Peer reviewedSabatino, David A.; And Others – Journal of Special Education, 1981
The authors caution that in neglecting to focus on cognitive training, special education may be denying the very ideology on which it is built. (Author)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Measurement, Disabilities, Elementary Secondary Education
Peer reviewedMiller, Ted L.; Davis, Earl E. – Journal of Special Education, 1981
A brief review of these tests is provided, and it is concluded that the procedures possess a number of characteristics that make the evaluation of change in intelligence a tenuous proposition. (Author)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Measurement, Evaluation Methods, Intellectual Development
Sternberg, Robert J. – 1979
The article reviews the cognitive behavioral approaches to the training of intelligence in the mentally retarded. A proposed structure of intelligent behavior is presented that serves as the basis for classifying the intended foci of the various training programs. Selected training programs are reviewed in terms of this classification. The…
Descriptors: Behavior Modification, Cognitive Development, Educational Practices, Elementary Secondary Education
Peer reviewedBergan, John R.; And Others – Journal of School Psychology, 1983
Examined effects of a brief parent training package on parental application of behavioral procedures during child instruction for 49 parents and their 2 1/2- to 5-year-old children. Parent training produced variations in parental use of modeling, physical prompting, verbal instructional prompting, and aversive control. However, the pattern of…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Intellectual Development, Learning Processes, Parent Child Relationship
Download full textSHANTZ, CAROLYN UHLINGER; SIGEL, IRVING E. – 1967
PIAGET HAS BEEN CONCERNED WITH THE ASSESSMENT OF THE PRESENCE OR ABSENCE OF CONSERVATION AND RELATED PROCESSES, BUT HE HAS NOT FOCUSED EXPERIMENTALLY ON THE FACTORS WHICH CAN ACCOUNT FOR THE LEARNING OF CONSERVATION. TO INVESTIGATE SUCH FACTORS, RESEARCH WAS CONDUCTED (1) TO DETERMINE THE RELATIVE EFFECTIVENESS OF TWO PARTICULAR GROUP TRAINING…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Classification, Cognitive Processes, Comparative Testing
KARNES, MERLE B.; AND OTHERS
A PRESCHOOL EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM WAS DEVELOPED IN WHICH THE ONLY TEACHER FOR THE CHILD IS HIS MOTHER. IT WAS HYPOTHESIZED THAT MOTHERS OF LOW SOCIOECONOMIC AND EDUCATIONAL LEVEL CAN CONTRIBUTE MATERIALLY, WITH MINIMAL BUT PROPER TRAINING, TO THE INTELLECTUAL AND LINGUISTIC DEVELOPMENT OF THEIR CHILDREN. THE TRAINING PROGRAM FOR THE MOTHERS…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Compensatory Education, Control Groups, Disadvantaged
Morreau, Lanny E., Ed. – 1972
A summary of the input of seven professionals to the planning and development of a parent-training program, "Teaching Your Child", is presented in this report. The articles included are written as applied demonstrations of decision rules to be incorporated into programs for helping parents stimulate their children intellectually. A brief…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Cognitive Development, Educational Programs, Educational Television
