Considers methodological issues surrounding the Piaget-Huang controversy. A probability model, based on the difference between the expected and observed animistic and deanimistic responses is applied as an improved technique for the assessment of animism. (DP)

False recognition errors in elementary school children were studied using word association tasks. Data obtained validated the developmental changes in the dominant dimensions of associative organization. (ST)

Paper present the findings from a study focusing on the relationship between levels of object concept construction and achievements in several other branches of functioning. (Author/CB)

One hundred and two subjects were given three verbal concept acquisition tasks. Repression, High defensiveness, and low psychoastenia were found to be significantly associated with high acquisition scores. (Author/KM)

It was predicted that high-scoring students would be better able to answer correctly questions directed at knowledge of principles and that this superior knowledge would result in better performance on questions on trivial materials as well. (Author/KM)

Compared with American students, Thai students demonstrated more cross-cultural similarity for abstract concepts than for social roles. (DM)

Author deals with the question of whether or not we should specify behavioral objectives for students, and judge achievement and competence in terms of some specified scheme. He stresses the point that educators should know what they are doing in the educational system even if they don't know why. (Author/RK)

Argues for three basic principles in considering instructional materials and curricula that (1) individualization is multidimensional -- a particular package or program can be individualized'' in some ways and not in others; (2) the degree of individualism is found in the usage of materials as well as in their inherent qualities; and (3) all…

Does, in fact, the teaching profession attract people of low conceptual level, and/or do teacher education programs encourage arrestation at a low conceptual level of development? (Author)

Conceptual development is a very important part in the educational process. (MR)

Understanding the present ecological crisis by understanding its conceptual background is discussed. Assessed are early Indian, colonial, puritan, and eighteenth and nineteenth century American concepts and beliefs of man's relationship to his environment. Principles and beliefs necessary to restore and maintain the environment are developed. (BL)