Strategies for affective assessment of individuals in a clinical mathematics setting are discussed. Multiple measurement and rating scales are presented. The author stresses that any assessment program should consider a systematic approach that coordinates several measuring techniques. Information gathered by such techniques can be especially…

The Preschool Preposition Test (PPT), a rapid screening test to identify delay in cognitive development of children ages 3 to 5, indicated its potential as a useful tool for the early identification of mother-child dyads in need of improving their affective relationship and verbal communications. Scores on the PPT, the Stanford-Binet Intelligence…

TO IDENTIFY THE LEARNING DIFFICULTIES OF DISADVANTAGED YOUTH AND TO DEVELOP POLICIES TO ADVANCE THEIR INTELLECTUAL DEVELOPMENT, EDUCATORS MUST DETERMINE THE SOURCES AND CAUSES OF THIS RETARDATION. THE DISTINCTION BETWEEN CERTAIN IRREVERSIBLE BIOLOGICAL SOURCES OF RETARDATION, SUCH AS GENETIC DEFECT OR BRAIN DAMAGE, AND SOCIAL SOURCES WHICH STEM…

OF THE EIGHT INITIAL EXPERIMENTS CONDUCTED BY RESEARCH AND INSTRUCTION (R AND I) UNITS, ESTABLISHED IN WISCONSIN SCHOOLS TO DEVELOP AND EXECUTE EXEMPLARY INSTRUCTIONAL PROGRAMS AND CONTINUOUSLY IMPROVE THEM THROUGH A PROGRAM OF RESEARCH, THREE EXPERIMENTS ACHIEVED SIGNIFICANT RESULTS. IN ONE, 99 SIXTH-GRADERS RECEIVED THREE TYPES OF SPELLING…

THE VIEWS OF EACH OF 13 EDUCATIONAL THEORISTS ON HIS SPECIAL FIELD OF INTEREST IN EDUCATION, PRESENTED IN A SERIES OF SEMINARS, ARE STATED BY THE AUTHOR OF THIS RESOURCE BOOK, CLASSIFIED ACCORDING TO LA GRONE'S CATEGORIES FOR IMPROVING PRESERVICE TEACHER EDUCATION. UNDER "THE ANALYTICAL STUDY OF TEACHING" ARE THE VIEWS OF (1) B.O. SMITH…

THE EXTENT TO WHICH REDUNDANCY OF LANGUAGE AFFECTS THE DIFFICULTY OF LEARNING VERBAL MATERIALS FOR CHILDREN OF SEVERAL AGES WAS STUDIED. SAMPLES OF SPOKEN LANGUAGE APPROPRIATE TO CHILDREN OF FIRST, THIRD, AND FIFTH GRADES AND ADULTS (AS REPRESENTED BY JUNIOR COLLEGE STUDENTS) FROM SIMILAR SOCIOECONOMIC BACKGROUNDS WERE COLLECTED BY MEANS OF A TAPE…

The emphasis of this book is on theory and research in spelling. It also includes practical information for the classroom teacher by noting teaching principles and generalizations that can guide spelling instruction. The book contains 12 chapters dealing with the following topics: (1) developmental concepts of word; (2) what a word is; (3)…

A review is presented of studies which examine the psychological predictors of successful adult performance, or life skill success. Scholastic achievement is generally regarded as an ineffective predictor of successful life performance. It is suggested that factors such as ego maturity and personal competence (developmental psychological…

Three developmental approaches to teacher education are examined in an effort to determine a coherent theoretical framework of criteria for evaluating the effectiveness of education programs. The first is discussed in terms of the development in a teacher of concern for student achievement and increasing willingness to be flexible in adapting new…

This study is concerned with the teaching of French grammar to native speakers at the elementary level and specifically considers whether or not students are psychologically ready to handle concepts entailed in the formal instruction of grammar. The sample included 5,900 students in grades 4 through 8 in French schools in Ontario. Subjects…

The creative oral language elicited from 45 preoperational and 40 concrete operational first grade students was analyzed to study the relationship between cognitive development and the types of case relationships produced. Each child's language was analyzed for eight noun/verb relationships, including state, process, action, experience, location,…

Developmental behaviors are listed for children from birth to 6 years for gross motor, fine motor, self help, expressive and receptive language, psycho/social, and cognitive skills. Skills are broken down into 6-month intervals for the first year, and 1-year intervals from age 1 to 6. (CL)

The paper defines and assesses a concept acquisition model for describing the behavior processes through which conceptual-observational instruction influences teaching behavior. This model is contrasted with two other views of the relationship between this mode of instruction and performance: an imitative behavior model and a behavior labeling…

Investigations of the growth of children's communicative behavior and ability, in terms of their interactions with media and their communication with other people, are described in this book. The first chapter presents an overview of the studies, explains the developmental perspective that characterizes them, and identifies some issues fundamental…

The manual presents sequences of skills designed for use as guides to teaching/learning objectives and as a basis for evaluating and recording special education students' progress. It is explained that the goal of the first level of objectives (sequenced in this document) is to enable the student to function at a motor/psychomotor state of…