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Kentucky State Council on Higher Education, Frankfort. – 1982
Results are presented of the Nursing Delineation Pilot Study, which was conducted in 1981-1982 as part of a nursing project to develop a coordinated statewide system of nursing education in Kentucky. Gilpatrick's Health Services Mobility Study Method of Task Analysis and Curriculum Design (1977) was used to identify and describe tasks of different…
Descriptors: Administrator Responsibility, Behavioral Objectives, Clinical Experience, Cluster Grouping
Download full textOrnstein, Peter A.; Naus, Mary J. – 1984
A dominant theme in cognitive psychology is that prior knowledge in long-term memory has a strong influence on an individual's cognitive processing. Citing numerous memory studies with children, knowledge base effects are presented as part of a broader picture of memory development. Using the sort/recall procedure (asking subjects to group sets of…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Structures, Developmental Stages
Association of American Medical Colleges, Washington, DC. – 1982
Charges and assumptions of three AAMC (Association of American Medical Colleges) working groups that reviewed the general professional education of physicians and college preparation for medicine are presented. The 3-year project assessed the present educational approaches and developed recommendations to improve instructional programs and…
Descriptors: College Preparation, College Programs, Committees, Competence
Peer reviewedPage, William D. – Research in the Teaching of English, 1974
Descriptors: Authors, Cognitive Processes, Communication (Thought Transfer), Deep Structure
Schwartz, Henrietta, Ed. – 1980
Twelve papers address the accomplishments of the Dean's Grant project at Roosevelt University (Chicago, Illinois), designed to evaluate and revise curriculum for preservice education students in accordance with compliance to state and federal mandates regarding education of the handicapped. Entries have the following titles and authors: "The…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Evaluation, Disabilities
Levelt, Peter – 1981
Part of a series of investigations undertaken at the University of Leiden by Dr. G. A. Kohnstamm to investigate how children process information from audiovisual media, particularly television, this literature review maps out the educational possibilities of television for children up to the age of 12. Research findings reviewed are concerned…
Descriptors: Attention Span, Childhood Attitudes, Children, Comprehension
McTeer, J. Hugh; Murray, Barry W. – 1980
This study investigated the knowledge that teachers have of economics. A major purpose was to determine if certain groups of teachers (business education, social studies, elementary, male and female) were competent to teach economics courses. Data for the study were collected from the records of 11 economics workshops conducted from 1966 to 1977…
Descriptors: Business Education, Economics, Educational Research, Elementary School Teachers
McCormick, Christine; Mason, Jana – 1981
Sixty-six children in three classrooms were tested at the end of their kindergarten year and again at the beginning of their first grade year to determine the effects of summer vacations on the gain or loss of beginning reading skills. The Letter and Word Reading Test, which was based on a developmental model of prereading and beginning reading,…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Beginning Reading, Child Development, Grade 1
Lieberman, J. Nina – 1981
The major components of playfulness in kindergarten children are physical, social, and cognitive spontaneity, manifest joy, and sense of humor. Children who are highly playful also show high scores in divergent and creative thinking. Piaget postulated that after the age of 7 or 8 this quality is replaced by assimilating the objective facts of the…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Creative Thinking, Divergent Thinking
Robeck, Carol P. – 1981
A study was conducted to investigate the relationships between the cognitive variables of cognitive style, understanding of linguistic concepts, and knowledge of word boundaries, as well as their relationships to three measures of reading in beginning and more advanced readers. The children's Embedded Figures Test, a linguistic concept test, a…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Cognitive Style, Concept Formation, Grade 1
Seaton, Hal W.; And Others – 1978
The relationship of teacher self-concept, knowledge of skills for teaching reading, and teaching effectiveness as judged by reading supervisors was examined in a study of 101 primary school teachers. The teachers were administered self-concept and knowledge of reading tests, and the effectiveness of each teacher was evaluated by a reading…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Knowledge Level, Primary Education, Reading Instruction
Edmonson, Barbara; And Others – 1977
The Socio-Sexual Knowledge and Attitudes Test was designed to measure the attitudes and knowledge of retarded individuals in fourteen areas: (1) anatomy/terminology; (2) dating; (3) marriage; (4) intimacy; (5) intercourse; (6) pregnancy, childbirth and childrearing; (8) masturbation; (9) homosexuality; (10) alcohol and drugs; (11) community risks…
Descriptors: Adults, Attitude Measures, Attitudes, Dating (Social)
DOAK, E. DALE – 1966
THE PURPOSE OF THIS STUDY WAS TO DETERMINE THE LEVELS OF THINKING THAT CHARACTERIZED TRACK I AND TRACK IV CLASSES IN ENGLISH, MATHEMATICS, AND SOCIAL STUDIES AT THE EIGHTH GRADE LEVEL. THE DATA WERE GATHERED AT CENTRAL JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL, ALAMOGORDO, NEW MEXICO, BY OBSERVERS RECORDING THE VERBAL INTERCHANGES AND TEACHER-PUPIL TALK OR PUPIL-PUPIL…
Descriptors: Comprehension, English, Grade 8, Grouping (Instructional Purposes)
DANCE, FRANK E.X.; FRANDSEN, KENNETH D. – 1965
THIS IS PART ONE OF A REPORT ON DISCUSSION LEADERSHIP TRAINING CONDUCTED BY THE SPEECH COMMUNICATION CENTER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN (MILWAUKEE), DURING JUNE 1965 TO EQUIP RETURNED PEACE CORPS VOLUNTEERS TO SERVE AS FACILITATORS OF PEACE CORPS TRAINEE SMALL GROUP DISCUSSIONS. THE GOALS OF SMALL GROUP DISCUSSION ARE TO INTEGRATE THEORY AND…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Cross Cultural Training, Experimental Programs, Group Discussion
Hepburn, Mary A. – 1979
Effects of participation by 904 elementary and secondary school social studies students in a political education project are discussed. Objectives of the project, entitled Improving Citizenship Education (ICE), are to assess student political knowledge (factual information, generalizations, principles, thinking and participatory skills), before…
Descriptors: Citizenship, Civics, Educational Assessment, Educational Needs
