Through the years, motor skills have been taught by having students practice motor responses as the teacher verbally cued and corrected them. This teaching strategy may work in the long run, but it costs teachers an enormous amount of unnecessary time. Verbal cues and mediation training comprise a short cut process that allows for quicker learning…

Adults' and children's descriptions of rooms were compared in terms of the cognitive and communicative aspects of segmentation and linearization. Children's increasing ability to gain structural discourse transparency by using specific linguistic devices was examined. A total of 50 Dutch-speaking children of ages 4, 6, 8, 10, and 12 described a…

Research into mathematical processes and their development is first viewed from the perspective of previous research that was directed towards the reading process. It is felt that the study of mathematics affords the experimental psychologist a well-specified domain of information with which to examine the full range of cognitive processes.…

A 40-item free response test on signed-number subtraction was administered to 172 eighth graders. Their responses are viewed as consisting of two different components, the sign and absolute value. Each component is scored zero for wrong or one for correct, yielding a score of one only when both components have scores of one. By taking the values…

The Maryland career course is a one-credit career planning course for undecided undergraduates based on William Perry's (1970) model of intellectual and ethical development. The Perry model can be described using four major and sometimes overlapping divisions which represent a series of positions on learning, i.e., Dualism, Multiplicity,…

Reasoning and logical thinking can be defined and explained from different perspectives. Three approaches are reviewed in this report; they are: (1) the logical structure approach; (2) the Piagetian approach of developmental stages; and (3) the information processing or memory approach. Four hypotheses related to these approaches were investigated…

The purpose of this review of selected literature is to further extend knowledge about the effects of Head Start on cognitive development. From a comprehensive collection of over 1,400 documents concerning Head Start, 71 studies were selected for review and coded to permit a meta-analytic, quantitative analysis of findings. The coding system…

Several writers have suggested that changes in temporal perspective during adolescence are largely a consequence of the cognitive acquisitions held to characterize the period (i.e., emergence of formal operations reasoning). To replicate earlier research, which found little association between adolescents' formal operations reasoning and future…

This article proposes to simplify scientific sociology for teaching at the precollege level in order to bring the discipline to bear on real social problems that affect the everyday life and human development of the high school student and is within the student's intellectual capability. (Author/DE)

This article discusses the appropriateness to the high school curriculum of the content, methods, perspectives, and concepts of sociology. It interprets research on cognitive and moral development to suggest that curriculum should be designed to provide occasions and stimulation to those students who are ready or reaching for growth in…

In a study, few subjects accepted empirical evidence of nonconservation of discontinuous quantity and weight. These findings were interpreted as support for the organismic-developmental claim that lower forms of reasoning are transformed into structurally more advanced forms. (Author/ED)

Article presented an analytical summary of some of the main features of lifelong education (and the process of lifelong learning which it presumably facilitates), together with some critical review. (Author/RK)

This paper suggests teaching techniques which utilize relevancy to help make learning facts and information more effective. Teaching strategies which create a state of conflict within learner are most basic psychological learning processes teachers need to understand and utilize in the classroom. (Author/EK)

The portions of Inequality: A Reassessment of the Effect of Family and Schooling in America (Jencks, et al 1972) concerned with inequality in cognitive skills and estimating the heritability of IQ scores are reviewed. For related articles see TM 501 196-200. (MLP)

Ways in which parents, the media and commercial educational materials contribute to the development of erroneous number concepts in pre-school children are identified. Cautions against these practices are suggested which include the use of more than one set of numerals for representing numbers. (JP)