This report presents the results of a study from July 1965 to July 1969 on the effects of year-long prekindergarten programs for disadvantaged children involving eight school districts in New York State and approximately 1,800 children. The study focused on factors which the schools considered important and major objectives of their programs.…

Twenty-four children attended a special half-day class when not attending regular kindergarten, and 12 of their mothers participated in a home counseling program. Children whose mothers were counseled achieved significantly higher on the Metropolitan Reading Test, and their mothers showed a significantly greater gain on the Cognitive Home…

This study, conducted over a period of three weeks at the University of Kansas, attempted to determine whether knowledge of musical structure would effect greater understanding and, eventually, enjoyment of music. Experimental and control groups comprising freshmen who were not enrolled in a music course listened repeatedly to excerpts of…

The mental and physical development of 994 elementary school children, recruited from populations of High, Medium and Low socio-economic and educational level in Israel was followed up for two (and in part for three) years. The pupils were given mental tests to measure the ability to understand the structure and direction of second order…

One hundred and thirty-eight undergraudate college males were administered individual and group measures of perceptual field-independence. Most of these subjects were also administered two measures of intelligence and a battery of tests of creativity. Comparisons were made of the creative test performance of three groups of 15 subjects each,…

The purpose of this study was to examine the interrelationships among five measures of aided reading comprehension (reading to each subject while he silently reads or follows along), intelligence, and three measures of cognitive style variables in first grade children. Thirty-four first graders, 13 boys and 21 girls, served as subjects. It was…

Reported is a study designed to investigate three cognitive style dimensions exhibited by third-, sixth-, and ninth-grade children as they viewed, categorized, and organized biological phenomena. Subproblems were related to the effects of the independent variables of grade, sex, and IQ on these cognitive style dimensions. A stratified random…

Considered are optimal conditions for learning in the child care center serving preschool children. Discussed as aspects of learning based on real life experiences are provision for a rich environment, opportunities for learning about the world and space, learning one's way around, and learning about measuring numbers, time, days and seasons,…

This study was designed to survey the cognitive style preferences of college students. Two instruments were used in obtaining data for this inquiry. The Cognitive Preference Survey for Physical Science, developed by the authors, gave three preference scores: Memory, a preference for simple content facts; Principle, for a concept or theoretical…

This program was designed to encompass personal growth, openness, and integration of affective and cognitive growth in the participants. Summer 1970 training sessions consisted of 2 weeks of intensive encounter work for 3 groups of 20 participants each, followed by a 3-day session on curriculum and methodology for the total group. During the…

This study investigated the linguistic components of Piaget's class-inclusion task. First, hierarchical classification is examined from both Piagetian and linguistic theory points of view. Then, two general characteristics of child thinking that relate to the different interpretations of the responses to classification questions are discussed: (1)…

This paper deals with some of the social and educational implications of Piaget's concept of "stages", (as formulated in structural-developmental psychology) and focuses on a basic aspect of interpersonal cognition--social perspective-taking ability. The analysis emphasizes the structure of social understanding rather than the content,…

Reported is an evaluation of the Child-Structured Learning in Science (CSLS) Curriculum using the intellectual models of Piaget and Guilford. A cognitive test instrument was designed to measure cognition of figural classes (CFC), convergent production of figural classes (NFC), evaluation of figural classes (EFC), cognition of figural relations…

Compiled for use with gifted children is a collection of activities and lesson plans in the areas of the media, inquiry teaching, lessons using F. Williams' model, encounter lessons, and simulation learning activities all developed by teachers of the gifted at a summer institute. The collection is introduced by a section on basic theories which…

This volume, the second of three, summarizes the sponsor evaluation activities conducted during 1972-73. Included are a report on the analysis of sponsor-collected outcome data from the ten Follow Through projects, a report on the findings and formative use of the Classroom Implementation Matrix, case study reports presenting supplementary data…