This report is the third in a series of evaluations of the Native Infant Program, an innovative intervention project designed to promote total development in children from birth through 4 years of age who live in five reserves in the Cowichan Valley near Duncan, British Columbia. The report is organized into three sections. The first briefly…

Described in this report are the extramural activities for fiscal year 1983 of the Center for Research for Mothers and Children (CRMC). The CRMC is designed to advance knowledge about fetal development, pregnancy, and birth; to identify the prerequisites of optimal growth and development through infancy, childhood, and adolescence; and to…

Many studies have hypothesized a developmental relationship between children's chronological and mental ages and their intrapersonal perceptions of internal and external control. To investigate longitudinal changes in children's locus of control, 97 elementary school children, between the ages of 8 and 13, were administered the Children's…

Some research indicates that a number of children understand vision as an outreaching of the sense, and that they are the originator of the process (Eaton, Anderson, & Smith, 1983; Guesne, 1985). The children draw arrows or rays that point out of the eyes, sometimes returning to the head, and write that vision involves the eyes seeing or…

Authors described how the arrangement of physical space in an open education setting could facilitate the accomplishment of the teacher's instructional goals. They stressed the process of planning in the physical realization of theoretical assumptions about learning and offered concrete examples to support their thesis. (Editor/RK)

Presents a comparison of Teplovian notions of temperament to Western conceptualizations of temperament concluding that if Russian investigators continue to alter their models to fit their empirical results, they will generate productive research which may lead to practical applications more rapidly than the Western style of research. (CS)

Reports on a series of discussion sessions held with three groups of fathers at the University of Washington's Child Development Center, which offered a mutually supportive atmosphere so fathers could share concerns and feelings about their children and at the same time, obtain appropriate information and guidance. (CS)

Despite breathless ads that claim "educational" toys will make Junior's I. Q. soar, no one has yet proved these playthings have the slightest effect on brainpower. (Editor)

Considered the parent-teacher conferences and their influence on a child's school success. (Editor/RK)

A professional social worker is employed for family counseling three mornings a week in a pediatrician's office. Results indicate that this team approach has been valuable in dealing with the many pediatric problems. (Author)

The purpose of this study was to examine the verbal behavior, knowledge and attitudes of day care teachers and to note the interrelationships of these factors. In order to accomplish this purpose data was collected from 53 randomly selected teachers from 20 randomly selected day care centers in Delaware. (Editor)

Discussed the advantages of the "new" physical education curriculum being taught and practiced in New Jersey schools. (RK)

This article describes two components of "Project: Child-Family Educators", a community-based child development training program designed for community paraprofessionals, a preschool play group experience for children in the community, and a parent education program. (CS)

Article described and discussed a series of animated films intended to develop the career awareness of three to six year old children. (Author/RK)

"More" and "less" were analyzed into two meaning dimensions, "occurence" and "quantity", which were hypothesized to be developmentally related to acts of addition and subtraction. (SBT)