Reported are studies which investigate children's understandings of concepts of symmetry and topology, area measure, limit and function, and logical inference. In each case, the mathematical concepts are analyzed in terms of their conceptual foundations. Tasks were created or adapted for testing the subconcepts at appropriate grade levels from K…

This paper offers a social learning explanation for age-related changes in children's cognitive functioning. Three hypotheses have been derived from the assumption of Piaget that structures play the preeminent role in cognitive development: (1) a child can not profit from or even appreciate experiences which are meaningful at a higher stage of…

Eight girls and 8 boys, 4 years of age, were individually administered two measures of role-taking skill (empathy and spatial egocentrism), a measure of classification ability and a measure of sociometric popularity. Activity during free play was also observed. Results support Smilansky's (1968) beliefs concerning the ontogenesis of play in young…

Examines the concepts employed by normal and retarded children matched for mental age in kindergarten through fourth grades. Two studies explored the schema by which these children organized their experience into meaningful patterns. (LLK)

A learning paradigm for teaching social work research is offered as an alternative to the consumership models, the researcher as technician models, and the integration of research into other curriculum areas. (Editor/KE)

This study investigated the use of covariation as a principle of causal analysis in children 3-4, 6-7, and 9-11 years of age. The results indicated that children as young as 3 years were capable of using covariation information in their attributions of simple physical effects. (Author/CS)

Attacks the precept that students should choose and direct their own learning activities according to what interests them. Indicates that the notion of personal responsibility in learning is vitally important, but is misunderstood by advocates of "open" education. (GS)

Twenty children, 3-12 years old, were given a newly constructed interview on their concepts of human reproduction (social causality), in conjunction with Piaget-type tasks assessing physical conservation-identity, physical causality, and a new social identity task. The children's concepts of human reproduction appeared to proceed through a…

Success and failure were experimentally induced by means of a puzzle task, and subjects were then required to perform two dependent tasks from which outerdirectedness was inferred. Results supported the hypothesis that children shift from an outerdirected to an interdirected problem-solving style as age increases. (Author)

Guidance workers need to become psychological educators. The article dis&usses the aims of education and the ideas of John Dewey and Jean Piaget. The Minnesota Psychological Education program is briefly described. Presented at an Elementary School Guidance Conference, Hopkins, Minnesota, September, 1974. (Author/BW) sota, September, 1974.…

This study investigates the relationships between the ITPA, which measures the development of specific language abilities, and the CAK, which is the most readily available measure of the development of conservation, in a sample of non-pathological preschool children. (Author)

Children were grouped according to ability to conserve number and then randomly assigned to training on arithmetic concepts or playing a game. The research hypothesis that there would be an interaction effect between conservation and effect of treatment was not confirmed. (SD)

The author interprets several mathematical concepts as groupings using Piaget's definition. He also discusses (briefly) the implications for primary education. (SD)

Three experiments with children between 5 and 7 years are described. It is shown that nominal predication of an unknown word by a superordinate term enables young children to make appropriate inferences concerning its attributes. The results are discussed in relation to semantic development and reasoning in the young child. (Author/RM)

The article traces the socialization patterns among the Chicano bar and judiciary in Arizona, California, Colorado, New Mexico and Texas. New Mexico's Chicano bar is detailed and examined. (NQ)