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Download full textHarman, W. W. – 1968
This paper summarizes some of the considerations which have affected the Center's research directions during the first half year of operation. The focus on the individual and on how educational policy choices relate to the individual is justified by three characteristics of the years ahead. (1) The role of education in alleviating social problems…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Behavior Change, Decision Making, Educational Change
Gannon, Frederick B. – 1968
The Many Faces of Kevin Michael Pullen is a case study intended to provide a basis for comprehensive discussions in counselor education courses at the graduate level and in inservice workshops for practicing secondary school counselors. Kevin is a young man, able to get through high school without developing his talents and skills. At the end of…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Career Development, Case Studies, College Choice
Stern, James L.; And Others – 1974
This followup study on plant closures was designed to replicate an earlier study in order to ascertain whether training would again show no payoff relative to direct labor market participation. The major variables used were: Influence of personal characteristics, psychological attributes and job search patterns, in addition to the variables of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Age, Economic Factors, Employment Problems
Keily, Margaret Mary – 1974
This study compared the creative self-direction, creative behavior, and creative activities of preschool children to determine if students and teachers trained in the creative process and in observation techniques can, with reliability, observe the creative potential of young children. Creative abilities of 155 children from four preschool centers…
Descriptors: Check Lists, Cognitive Processes, Correlation, Creative Activities
Grob, Cecelia E.; Trojcak, Doris A. – 1974
The effects of conservation activities on children's acquisition of Piaget's conservation concepts were investigated. One hundred and twenty-eight seven-to nine-year-old children in four classrooms were given pre- and post-evaluation measures of conservation ability. The experimental group completed a set of 42 self-directed conservation…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Age Differences, Cognitive Processes, Conservation (Concept)
Madden, Marilou – 1974
The Alaska State Department of Education undertook a review of research and literature to determine the optimal starting age or ages for school attendance. This review was occasioned by two events: the proliferation of early childhood education programs in the State and the growing body of research which suggests possible adverse effects of early…
Descriptors: Admission (School), Age, Attendance, Early Childhood Education
Dunlap, Virginia E. – 1973
A peer counseling program was instituted in a California high school to: (1) expand the guidance services of the school by utilizing trained students; (2) make school more meaningful for the peer counselors through personal growth and involvement; and (3) determine the feasibility of implementing peer counseling projects in other high schools in…
Descriptors: Counselor Client Ratio, Counselor Role, Guidance Programs, High School Students
Hughes, Kathryne Sheehan, Comp. – 1969
This issue of the "Teachers of Home Economics" brings together suggestions for initiating an effective parenthood education program centered about a laboratory for the young child and suggestions for planning comprehensive home economics instruction on human growth and development. Described are examples of successful school programs that have…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Home Economics, Home Economics Education, Home Economics Teachers
Knowles, Malcolm – 1973
Traditional theories of learning and the teaching practices resulting from them are reviewed. Most theories of adult learning are based on research into the learning of children, which in turn is founded upon theories of animal learning. These theories, formulated under laboratory conditions, are artificial at best--and not complex enough to apply…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Behavior Patterns, Human Resources
Schools Council, London (England). – 1970
A film, photographs, and this booklet describe a five-week course run for sixty young school leavers or less able students in the summer term of 1967. It took place in a Welsh county borough on a large campus of a working class boys and girls non-selective secondary school. The booklet is in two parts: the first part describes the aims,…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Citizenship, Community Schools, Experiential Learning
Ball, Rachel S. – 1971
The present report is the fourth of a series concerned with mental functioning and its development in early childhood. The study attempted to discover whether the same children tested at intervals of one or more years showed similar development in thinking ability from age to age. Longitudinal test protocols were obtained for 92 children at 3…
Descriptors: Ability, Age Differences, Aptitude, Convergent Thinking
Miller, F. Milton – 1971
Three classroom organizational schemes for presenting technical information in industrial arts were compared: (1) individual achievement in a small group setting with no teacher interaction, (2) group achievement in a small group setting with no teacher interaction, and (3) individual achievement in an entire class with no teacher interaction. The…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Cognitive Development, Comparative Analysis, Doctoral Dissertations
Colarusso, Calvin A.; Green, Phyllis P. – 1973
This article describes a Title III project which attempts to introduce principles of child development into teaching in the elementary school in a practical and comprehensive manner, using actual experiences from the classroom as examples. The strategies provide a general set of guidelines for approaching individual children based on emotional and…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Child Development, Children, Elementary Education
McCall, Robert B. – 1972
Function of attention in infants is explored. Assuming (1) that infants respond differently to novel situations than to familiar ones; (2) that the infant's pattern of response is a partial reflection of the process of acquiring a perceptual memory of the stimulus, and (3) that sex differences may occur in the rate of habituation, 120 infants…
Descriptors: Adaptation Level Theory, Age Differences, Attention, Bibliographies
Thompson, Albert S. – 1972
The Career Pattern Study hypothesized the concept of vocational maturity, attempted to define the concept, developed questionnaire methods for studying it, and refined the questionnaire items into an instrument to measure it. In this brief biography of the Career Development Inventory (CDI), the next step was to refine the Career Pattern Study…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Biographies, Career Development, Career Guidance
