The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between a developmentally disabled child's ability to perform (a) a simple rhythmic task, and (b) a series of gross and fine motor tasks. The subjects of this study were 77 boys aged 65 months (5.416 years) to 174 months (14.5 years). All were classified as educable mentally retarded,…

A taxonomy of response processes has been developed to facilitate the designing of training programs; each kind of task presumably would require a different set of training methods for greatest efficiency, so classifying a task would be part of determining which methods to use. A pool of response distinctions was collected, with special attention…

An experimental task with accompanying apparatus was developed for use in the study of developmental and cultural differences in the cooperative-competitive behavior of children in a small Mexican town and in California. Two groups of 20 Mexican children (aged 7-8 and 10-11), from an elementary school in a town in Baja, California, Mexico, were…

Two studies investigated the functional equivalence of three different scoring systems used to assess the child's ability to understand and carry out multiplicative classification tasks. All three scoring criteria produced reliable and homogeneous tests. Their factor matrices were similar, and the corresponding factor structures were invariant…

A comparison of scores for northern Black students from urban environments and published scores for southern students on the Student Developmental Task Inventory reached significance on several subtasks. (Author)

Argues that there are significant ways in which neither Piaget nor his successors in developmental psychology have adequately described the child's mind and how it changes. Proposes alternative guidelines for research that aims more directly at identifying essential constituent features of the child's mental reality. (PCB)

Focuses on the developmental and performance capacities of middle grade students, ages 9 through 13. Eight tasks are described as unique to this age range. Implications for counselors are given. (BL)

Three current emphases of career education are value clarification, development viewpoint, and an interdisciplinary collaboration. The interrelationship of these characteristics is demonstrated through discussions of a middle/junior high school program. (MS)

The authors describe in detail how a career development "curriculum" is systematically developed by professional counselors for implementation by paraprofessionals and lay church workers. A key feature of this article is the needs assessment procedure, since the curriculum is being constructed on the results of this procedure. (Author)

Author contends that an unsubtle use of behavioral objectives tends to impede the process of considering a child's natural cognitive development by focusing attention on someone else's task analysis and not on the development of the child's ideas. (Author)

It is argued that developmental task analysis is of primary value in the psychoeducational programming of children with learning and behavioral problems. (Author)

Mothers', fathers' and teachers' perceptions of young children's five motor, gross motor, and language skills were scored as underestimates, hits, or overestimates. Comparisons yielded no differences between groups except mothers overestimated gross motor skills, and teachers underestimated fine motor skills more than fathers. Correlations…