Suggests that unity is the most important concept students must learn to be effective readers. (RB)

Age-related changes in self-definition were examined in 120 students from age 6 to 16 years. It is suggested that with increasing age there is greater self-extension and a reconceptualization of self and not-self relations. (GO)

In this rejoinder it is argued that the main objections advanced by Beran (AA 521 881) can be met if two important senses of the concepts of coercion and teaching are distinguished; these are called the "loose" and "tight" senses. (Editor/RK)

Suggests that students who reason with only concrete thinking patterns may become formal thinkers through the use of the following instructional pattern: (1) the introduction of an undifferentiated whole, (2) differentiation of the whole through concrete experiences, (3) invention of symbolic notation, (4) application of concepts which lead to…

Investigates relationship between conceptual level and counselor trainee behavior in counseling analogue. Comparison of verbal responses of counselors using six categories of Amidon's counselor interaction analysis and Counselor Verbal Response Scale indicated differences in response patterns of students as function of their conceptual level.…

This article concentrates on the term movement education and discusses its evolving interpretations and their implications for other terms. (JS)

The primary thrust of the present experiment was to examine the relative learning rate or capacity of hyperactive children on a laboratory learning task involving concept learning. (Author/RK)

An investigation of Hollanberg's contention that increased visual imagery is detrimental to concept acquisition. Subjects were 48 second grade children. (SDH)

Empirically describes the relative development of perceptual and conceptual understanding of left-right, back-front, up-down projective relationships between objects and provides a heuristic model of the cognitive processes involved in coordination of perspectives tasks. (Author/ED)

The utility of Heider's model for specifying relations between perceived properties of an act and the attributed intentionality of the act is explored empirically with children of varying ages. (Author/ED)

In two experiments adult subjects were given a redundant relevant cues concept identification problem. (Editor)

Most students leave school with good or acceptable grades in mathematics, despite the fact that very few actually grasp basic mathematical concepts. Schools appear to be providing ways of acquiring the necessary knowledge without promoting true mathematical comprehension. This is made possible by reducing mathematics, cognitively, to a merely…

A series of studies evaluated methodological issues in the investigation of children's developing comprehension and production of the words "because" and "so." The familiarity of task materials and their relevance to 4-, 6-, and 8-year-old children's experience were the focus of the first study. For the second study, involving…