The publication is designed to provide instruction for occupational training in the area of child development. It includes basic knowledges and skills in parenthood education, developmental child care, children's activities, child health, employment opportunities in the field, and working with special groups. The purpose of the publication is to…

This selective bibliography is one of nine documents compiled to provide titles and descriptions of useful and informative reading documents which were indexed into the ERIC system from 1966 to 1974. The 231 entries in this section of the bibliography concern tests and evaluation and are arranged alphabetically by author in one of the following…

This longitudinal study examined the effects of one year of full-day Head Start day care experiences on the long-term motivational and cognitive changes in 29 low-income black children aged 51-61 months. The children were separated into two groups; one attended a full-day kindergarten similar to Head Start, and the other was sent to half-day…

Central Michigan University's Institute of Personal and Career Development (IPCD) extends educational opportunities to adults who determine from their career experiences that they need additional professional competencies. The program is based on competency objectives which were evaluated according to broad criteria referenced tests. Upon…

The evaluation report examines three ACT demonstration projects (Adolescents in Child Training) in San Antonio, Chicago, and Little Rock designed to involve adolescents in child training through the classroom and actual field experience. Part 1 of the report describes the three projects with respect to their contextual, conceptual, and programatic…

To discover children's knowledge about computer operation and programing characteristics and its effect on children's perceptions of computer expertise, pre- and posttests were administered to 292 children from 5th, 7th and 9th grades. Children were randomly assigned to see a factual film on computers or to a film on another subject. It was…

This workbook was designed to help parents of preschool children take an active role in the education and guidance of their children, particularly in the area of language and vocabulary, social development, and movement. Included are all the sections from the book "Discovering How Children Learn" in addition to parent and child…

This is the final report of a project initiated in September 1965 to: (1) determine and measure the environmental factors and the social-psychological characteristics of students which are related to the success or failure of occupational programs; and (2) to identify a variety of typical educational career patterns and to isolate teams of…

The guide contains a secondary school social studies unit for career development designed to be team-taught with the guidance counselor. The five-week unit aims at providing students with a certain knowledge of themselves and their own occupational preferences and potential through a series of discussions, readings, games, films, exercises, tests,…

This paper presents the research design for a longitudinal study of elementary school students, which will examine patterns of cognitive, affective, and social growth and identify the school and home variables which influence such growth. Shifts in dependent variables during a single school year will be examined during the initial year for all…

This national program offers college-level instruction through the newspaper. Published by the University Extension of the University of California at San Diego, this resource kit combines a course on United States history and the future of man and society. The kit contains a soundsheet, lectures, student study guide, student reader, self-tests,…

This study was designed to test the validity of using creativity and academic motivation variables, in addition to the traditional variables of scholastic aptitude and high school GPA, as predictors of college GPA. The sample consisted of the 1973-74 freshman class at the College of Basic Studies (CBS) at Boston University; CBS is a two-year…

This publication reviews significant research in 1969 in the field of oral language in early childhood and reading. In general the paper discusses only those areas where these three topics intersect; thus detailed treatment is given only to language in early childhood education and language in relation to reading. Initial comments deal with…

This investigation of high school and college language programs in the 1940's presents information on the objectives of language teaching and the measurement of language proficiency. An aural-oral testing program is described, and the aural-oral experimental groups are compared with conventionally taught classes. Advanced levels of language skill…

Slides of great modern art works by Picasso, Mondrian, and Van Gogh were selected as stimulus materials for an art test administered to a heterogeneous group of 395 college students. The slides were endorsed for desirability, and the results were factor analyzed. Scales of items with similar levels of endorsement from different factor scales were…