Referential communication accuracy of mother and child pairs when the children were four years old predicted children's cognitive development one and two years later in the United States and Japan. Main effects were found to be significant even when mother IQ, SES, and child ability at age four were partialled out of the analysis. (JMB)

Reviews research studies, available through the ERIC system, on the interaction of cognitive, social, and language development, drawing implications for language arts instruction. (DD)

Suggests that literary study should employ student creative writing as a transition into expository critical writings and discussion of literary works. (DD)

An approach to cognitive development which builds upon Piagetian assumptions and methods but which takes into account specific characteristics of diverse symbol systems and media is outlined. Such an approach may account for several phenomena left unexplained by Piaget, integrate diverse strands of research, and suggest promising lines of…

Examined the role of perceptual-motor development in a typical Stage IV task. The performance of ten infants was compared on a Stage IV object permanence task when a cloth cover was used and when a small card cover was used. (JMB)

The paper reviews cognitive training studies with children showing behavioral, attentional, or cognitive problems. (Author)

Suggests ways puppets can be used to foster young children's problem solving abilities. (CM)

Suggests ways that speaking and listening, reading and writing can be brought together in the learner's mind. (DD)

Too many students prefer "objective" tests to essay tests because they mistakenly believe writing is isolated from the learning process. (DD)

Describes how a purposeful, creative use of show and tell can help develop students' speaking, listening, and thinking skills. (DD)

A review of research and theory demonstrates that teachers can learn much about students' cognitive and linguistic skills by exploring their understanding of proverbs. (DD)

The Piagetian area scores of 168 students in first, second, and third grades were used to predict mathematics achievement for each of four succeeding years. Conservation and measurement scores were highly predictive. (MP)

Open-ended interviews were conducted with 224 boys from first, third, and fifth grades to gauge their cognitive understanding of the structure and purpose of TV commercials and selectiveness of attitudinal response to them. Multiple measures also taken for maturational development, socialization, and television exposure as predictor sets.…

This study examined language ability in children of the same mental age who differed in their level of cognitive development. Subjects were 68 first-graders, 33 male, 35 female, from a predominantly middle-class elementary school. (Author/SB)

This paper indicates how, in the two areas of (1) habit and reason and (2) affective and cognitive, Kohlberg's theory of cognitive moral development may be expanded to include the conceptualizations necessary for any visable moral developmental theory. (MM)