Results of this replication study indicate considerable agreement with Piaget and Inhelder's description of stage-related verbal features while failing to confirm their description of stage-related nonverbal features. (JMB)

This paper presents a formulation of a constructivist perspective and shows how it is applicable to teacher education. (CM)

The author focuses on the possible opportunities for sport to contribute to the development of the individual and the extent to which participation in sport allows for the development of certain ethical categories. (Author/RK)

A dimension of sexuality is defined as a form of knowledge and is situated in Piaget's existing theory of cognitive development. Investigates whether sexual egocentrism is comparable to cognitive egocentrism at each stage of sexual development. Uses D. Elkind's (1967) explication of egocentrism and how it is overcome throughout the sexual stages.…

Pinpoints the implications raised for comparative studies by the internationalization of educational institutions. (Editor/RK)

Applies the philosophical method of concept elucidation to determine whether there are rules governing the use of "curriculum" in educational discourse that would provide guidelines as to which ones are the correct ones. (Author/MLF)

This paper presents a psychometric analysis of the criterion problem in neo-Piagetian concept development research. The evidence shows that false negative and false positive criterion errors have the same effect on the null hypothesis so that the criterion with the lowest error rate should be utilized. (Author/JMB)

Analysis of the ability of 17 autistic children to recognize age and sex-related characteristics of people indicated that autistic children were markedly impaired in their ability to differentiate adults from children and males from females when compared to nonautistic retarded and normal children. (Author/DB)

Five experiments studied operations of conceptual masking--the reduction of conceptual memory performance for an initial stimulus when it is followed by a masking picture process. The subjects were 337 undergraduates at the University of Washington (Seattle). Conceptual masking is distinguished from perceptual masking. (TJH)

The effects of the level of adjunct question and type of feedback on learning concepts from prose were examined, using 534 college students. Results suggest that feedback does not necessarily facilitate concept learning and adjunct application questions do not always facilitate the learning of concepts through reading. (TJH)

The concepts of two totally blind children, ages four and five, concerning how people see, were evaluated by asking them to show objects to either sighted people or each other. Their performance indicated they understood that blind people need to feel objects but sighted persons do not. (Author/DB)

Examined the relation between a counselor's conceptual level (CL) and the counseling process. Counselors who were matched with a compatible environment performed better than those who were mismatched. Low-CL individuals performed significantly better in more highly structured environments, whereas high-CL individuals showed only a slight…

The normative rule began to predominate at age 10 and was the only rule employed by 13-year-olds. In contrast, almost all 7-year-olds simplified the equalization task to an ordinal level. Four different nonalgebraic rules were identified. Neither young children's tendency to simplify nor older children's capacity to quantify could be detected in…

A total of 50 children between 6 and 13 years of age were tested for a predicted, eight-step sequence of family role concepts. Dolls representing typical roles were used as props, and each child was asked questions concerning role explanations and increasingly abstract family definitions. The sequence was found to be scalable and age-related.…

Few terms have been as misused and as overused as the term "competence." This article attempts to clarify the meaning of the term by describing four common conceptions of competence. (Author/CB)