A record-keeping system based on Piagetian process categories plus guidelines for keeping records are provided as a practical starting point for teachers and students in training who are working in Piagetian preschool programs. Reasons for keeping individual records, the characteristics of good records, assumptions of the cognitively oriented…

A study proposing reality and fantasy discrimination of television content as a classificatory ability sought to identify differences between subjects who were able to make sophisticated reality-fantasy judgements and those who were not, and factors which might contribute to a subject's sophistication in discrimination. Open-ended and structured…

The book presents a creative art program for preschool children that utilizes art as a vehicle to develop many desirable behaviors -- social, emotional, and intellectual. A total of 45 art activities are described, organized under the headings "Exploration--Seeing and Feeling" (including seeing and feeling different textures, and seeing repeating…

This review of the current state of research on how children make sense of television and its content examines age-related differences in children's interpretations of television entertainment content in general, and advertising content in particular. A brief analysis and description of the fundamental principles of cognitive development theory…

This document consists of a study guide and instructional materials for West Virginia University's telecourse on child development titled "The Growing Years." Included are orientation materials (including course objectives, course materials lists, course requirements), a broadcast schedule for the 30 showings, an assignment sheet, format sheets…

Intended for counselors, the paper discusses some of the critical periods and patterns of gifted child development that relate to career and life style determination. Case histories of two gifted and talented students are offered, following their lives from early childhood through early adulthood. Maslow's need hierarchy (focusing on the elements…

CHILDREN IN THE FIRST, THIRD, AND FIFTH GRADES IN A SELECTED ELEMENTARY SCHOOL WERE EXPOSED TO AN EXPERIMENTALLY DEVELOPED PROGRAM OF MOTOR ACTIVITIES AS PART OF A PHYSICAL EDUCATION CURRICULUM DESIGNED TO CHALLENGE A CHILD. PERFORMANCE MEASURES IN THE STANDING BROAD JUMP, THE 30-YARD DASH, THE OVER ARM THROW, THE PULL-UP, AND SHUTTLE RUN WERE…

EVALUATION OF HEADSTART HAS AS ITS GENERAL CRITERION OF EFFECTIVENESS THE RATIO BETWEEN COST AND BENEFIT. IF THE LATTER CAN BE DEMONSTRATED TO JUSTIFY THE FORMER, THE INTERVENTION PROJECT IS A GOOD INVESTMENT IN TERMS OF IMMEDIATE HELP FOR THE DISADVANTAGED PRESCHOOLER AND IN LONG RANGE BENEFITS FOR HIS FAMILY, COMMUNITY, AND SOCIETY. IN TERMS OF…

FIVE SCHOOLS TOOK PART IN A SAMPLE STUDY TO SET SCORING PROCEDURES IN A LONGITUDINAL STUDY IN PROGRESS TO DETERMINE THE EFFECTS OF JUNIOR KINDERGARTEN ATTENDANCE ON THE CHILDREN'S LATER ACHIEVEMENT AND DEVELOPMENT. PUPIL CHARACTERISTIC DATA ARE BEING COLLECTED ON PROFILE CARDS AND A TEACHER-RATED QUESTIONNAIRE WHICH WAS DESIGNED TO PROVIDE…

FIFTEEN RESEARCH STUDIES IN CHILD DEVELOPMENT ARE SURVEYED. PARTICULAR EMPHASIS IS GIVEN TO FELDMAN WHO RECOMMENDS A "CODE-FIRST" PROGRAM FOR BEGINNING READING. THE TERM "CODE" REFERS TO THE LETTER SYMBOLS REPRESENTING THE CHARACTERISTIC SPEECH SOUNDS OF ENGLISH. SOME OF THE PROBLEMS IN PERCEPTION AND THE IMPLICATIONS FOR…

THE DEVELOPMENTAL PROGRAM WAS INITIATED BY GROUPS OF TEACHERS AND ADMINISTRATORS CONCERNED WITH THE DEVELOPMENT OF EACH CHILD AS A UNIQUE PERSON. TEACHING UNITS WERE NOT RELATED TO GRADE LEVELS, THEREBY ALLOWING FOR TEACHING CONSISTENT WITH GROWTH. THE CHILDREN WERE EXPOSED TO PROGRESSIVELY MORE COMPLICATED EXPERIENCES AND CURRICULUM CONTENT.…

THE CONCERN OF THIS STUDY WAS THE EFFECT OF SENTENCES OF VARYING STRUCTURAL COMPLEXITY ON PRIMARY GRADE CHILDREN'S ORAL READING, SILENT READING, AND LISTENING COMPREHENSION. THE AUTHOR PREPARED 36 ONE-SENTENCE "STORIES" WHICH VARIED IN STRUCTURAL COMPLEXITY AS ASSESSED BY THE DEPTH HYPOTHESIS OF STRUCTURAL DEPTH (YNGVE, 1960), SECTOR…

The main purpose of this paper is to delineate methods of data collection and coding currently being used in a longitudinal observational study of toddlers in 25 black families in Oakland, California. Data collection activities, accomplished through monthly three-hour visits to each home, focused on five types of data: (1) videotaped and…

The author considers controversial psycholinguistic problems in the study of first and second language acquisition, raising such questions as whether all children learn language in the same way, and whether all languages are learned in the same way. Her observations, based partially on observing her own bilingual child, suggest that the cenematic…

This investigation explored the conversational practices and conversational rule-conformity of children aged four, six, and eight. Procedures included observation of the conversational behavior of children in classroom interaction among peers and a controlled laboratory investigation of the conversations of 18 children, of varying age levels, who…