Reported are the results of a study designed to test the effects of a programed unit in fundamentals of logic on the ability of college capable junior high school students to verbalize mathematical generalizations. The independent variables were the presence or absence of study of the logic unit, and ability level being college capable (I.Q.…

The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between conservation status and relational terms by means of the semantic differential. Sixty-one children classified according to Piaget's three levels of conservation development judged the relational terms "more" and "less" on concrete semantic differential…

This book is one of a series on Education For Survival and integrates a conservation curriculum into a social studies and science program for grades 1, 2, and 3. It was developed to help lead young people to an awareness of environmental problems which confront our society. The first chapter presents a resume of all social science curriculum units…

This bibliography on the acquisition and development of speech and language lists, in alphabetical order by author, 423 books and journal articles published between 1937 and 1970. [Not available in hard copy due to marginal legibility of original document.] (DD)

This guide has been designed to assist school districts in developing a comprehensive program of health instruction from kindergarten through grade twelve. It is a framework that provides structure for the development of a sequential, but flexible health education curriculum to meet local needs and provide for the changing health problems facing…

This book brings together articles by educators, geographers, social scientists, and those whose competence and interests cross two or more of these fields. Geography as a discipline has played an important part in social studies/social science education. These chapters are representative of current thinking on many facets of the interaction among…

Three experiments were conducted to investigate the learning of the concept "more than" by preschool children. In the first experiment, 48 nursery school children, ages 4 1/2 to 5 1/2 years, were divided into three groups. All were required to say which of two pictures contained the greater number of objects. In group one, circles were used as the…

In offering a "total approach" to educating disadvantaged pre-school youngsters, the authors examine the psychological pressures and economic deprivations of these children. Also included in the volume are chapters devoted to characteristics of the learning environment, language experiences, concept development, and administrative issues. (NH)

A task analysis of the conceptual skills prerequisite to learning to read by a phonics-based method is made in an attempt to distinguish these skills from reading's component skills. The model for task analysis presented by Gagne, in which a cumulative learning of prerequisite conceptual skills is assumed, is used. The analysis deals primarily…

The debate to define career education began and the nature of the concept slowly began to emerge after career education was brought to center stage by Dr. Sidney P. Marland in 1971. Career education is moving toward a focus on the working role that individuals play and is concerned with helping each individual identify, enter, and progress in a…

This study is based upon an interpretation of Ausubel's subsumption learning theory. The primary characteristic of this theory is that it views a learner's specific content knowledge as a crucial factor in learning. Two types of assessment instruments were used with first-grade students to determine concept attainment based on specific models…

Prepared as a part of the Career Education Project of the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO), the paper reviews the varying definitions of the term "career education" and describes the evolution of the concept, schema, and models. Evidence of acceptance and support of the career education concept by education agencies is examined.…

The guide gives concepts and suggestions for teaching art to gifted students in grades 7 through 9. Noted is the need for adolescent gifted students to view reality with heightened aesthetic perception, to attain success in art work, and to remain uninhibited in development. Topics covered in an overview of art study are criticism of student art,…

Reported is a study demonstrating the effects of acknowledgment of success as related to self-concept, problem solving behavior, or science concept development of seventh-grade students. Forty-nine students were randomly assigned to either the experimental group (those who received acknowledgment of successful autonomous discovery) or the control…

An analysis of the quantitative processes underlying conservation of quantity is presented. Models of three quantitative operators--subitizing, counting, and estimation--are derived from adult performance in quantification tasks, and some features of the operators are described. The emergence of conservation is described in terms of the…