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Download full textCampione, Joseph C.; Brown, Ann L. – 1985
In an effort to validate dynamic assessment methods influenced by Vygotsky's (1978) definition of zones of proximal development (an indicator of readiness), three sets of experiments addressed two goals: the development of diagnostic assessment methods and the use of diagnostic results to guide the design of instructional programs. The first two…
Descriptors: Cognitive Measurement, Cognitive Processes, Educational Diagnosis, Elementary Education
Trites, Ronald L.; Moretti, Patricia – 1986
This study reports the follow-up assessments of fourth- and fifth-grade students who had participated in a French immersion program beginning in kindergarten, and of students in the same grades who had not participated in immersion programs. The study was designed to assess the predictive validity of the early identification battery used for…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Dropout Characteristics, Dropout Research
Lephardt, Noreen E.; Lephardt, George P. – 1983
A paradigm for learning economic concepts based on cognitive development and learning theory is offered as a guideline for teaching and research. Discussion is divided into two sections. The first section establishes the model's theoretical framework, which is based on two propositions. The first of these is that economic knowledge is not a fixed…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Measurement, Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation
Greenhouse, Michael – 1989
A prerequisite for learning is admitting simply that one "does not know." In order to discover and truly "know," one must have an open mind, suspend all preconceptions and assumptions, and be able to tolerate the ambiguity experienced when the line between formal subject matter and those assumptions begins to blur. Many community college students…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Classroom Environment, Classroom Techniques, College Faculty
BENNIS, WARREN G. – 1966
THIS CHAPTER OF A LARGER WORK ON THE SOCIOLOGY OF ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE SUGGESTS GUIDELINES FOR USING LABORATORY TRAINING WITHIN ORGANIZATIONAL SOCIAL SYSTEMS. THE ULTIMATE AIM OF SUCH TRAINING IS NOT ONLY TO IMPART HUMAN RELATIONS SKILLS TO THE PARTICIPANTS, BUT ALSO TO CHANGE ORGANIZATIONAL VALUES SO THAT HUMAN FEELINGS ARE REGARDED AS…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Case Studies, Change Agents, Cultural Influences
Frataccia, Enrico V.; Frataccia, Priscilla Kaye – 1981
A student project was designed to promote the development of critical reading, critical thinking, and study skills in seventh grade honors students in a developmental reading program. Inherent within the design of the project was the notion that the students would select a topic of interest to research, thereby enhancing student motivation and…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Critical Reading, Critical Thinking, Grade 7
Schenectady City School District, NY. – 1968
Assuming the premise that "a child has gone fifty percent of the way in organizing the thinking patterns that we call his intelligence by the time he has reached the age of four, and the next thirty percent by the time he is eight," 50 Schenectady kindergarten-through-first-grade teachers and administrators formulated a chart of behavioral…
Descriptors: Art Appreciation, Behavioral Objectives, Charts, Child Development
Ilg, Frances L.; Ames, Louise Bates – 1964
This combined text and manual presents the basic educational viewpoint of the Gesell Institute, that children should be entered in school (and consequently grouped and promoted) on the basis of their developmental or behavioral age, not on the basis of their chronological age or IQ. The introduction describes the research in which the Institute…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Behavior Development, Behavior Rating Scales, Cognitive Development
Walsh, Victor; Golins, Gerald – 1976
Directed at the inquiring practitioner, this paper defines the Outward Bound (OB) process; presents a summarial schema of that process; and provides examples of process application. The OB process definition encompasses the following: the learner must demonstrate motivational readiness (appropriate manifestations of willingness and ability to…
Descriptors: Achievement, Activities, Adjustment (to Environment), Affective Objectives
Hedges, William D. – 1978
This paper describes the scope and findings of a separately published comprehensive review of research on optimum age of entry into first grade, covering the literature from 1915 to 1976. (Not included was research on reading, the gifted, mentally retarded, and materials in popular journals.) Findings noted the inadequacy of chronological age as a…
Descriptors: Age, Age Differences, Age Grade Placement, Child Development
PDF pending restorationSeitamo, Leila – 1974
This paper presents a study of the educational problems of the Skolt Lapp children living in Finland. (The Skolt Lapps have a distinctively different culture from the rest of the Finnish people.) The study was designed to define: (1) to what degree cultural factors affect the educational readiness (intellectual functions, school motivation, and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Behavior Patterns, Biculturalism, Bilingual Education
Cabler, Jesse K.; And Others – Bureau of School Service Bulletin, 1974
This report describes: (1) a study of desirable kindergarten goals as perceived by the principals, teachers, and parents of Kentucky's 1973-74 pilot kindergarten programs; and (2) a study of the learning needs of entering first-grade pupils as perceived by a structured sample of first-grade teachers in Kentucky. In the first study, data collected…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Age Differences, Educational Objectives, Grade 1
New York State Education Dept., Albany. Bureau of Continuing Education Curriculum Development. – 1974
The purpose of this manuscript is to encourage the development of the communication skills of preschool children by introducing their parents to a number of learning activities suitable for implementation in the home. It is written to be used by an instructor who is working with preschool parents. The activities, which are designed to be…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Compensatory Education, Concept Formation, Decision Making Skills
Helper, John W. – 1972
The needs of students in the public schools of Colorado are reviewed in a report that contains two types of information: (1) descriptions of some educational outcomes commonly desired in Colorado, as found in statements of goals and objectives; and (2) descriptions of student performance on the assessment inventory given in the spring of 1971.…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Community Responsibility, Educational Needs, Evaluation Criteria
Darnell, Deane – 1976
The Parent Teacher Kindergarten Student Assessment instrument (PTKSA) described here was developed over a 4-year period and used extensively at each stage of its revision, with the goal of evolving a feasible and sensitive pre-primary pupil profile or early childhood education inventory. Intended for use by both parents and teachers at the…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Early Childhood Education, Kindergarten Children, Language Acquisition
