In his article (EJ 149 548) W. A. Hart criticizes the author's concept of teaching suggesting that he has the wrong kind of interest in teaching and has lost his touch with teaching. Here Marshall replys by stating that his intention was "to show what teaching was not" and that he had deliberately made no positive conception of teaching.…

Two studies trace children's acquisition of counting as a means to extract, compare, and reproduce number from arrays of objects. Study 1 examined 3-, 4-, and 7-year-olds' use of counting to compare and reproduce arrays numerically. In study 2, nine of the 3-year-olds from the study 1 were retested after 12 and 18 months. (Author/JMB)

This study examined the appreciation of rhyme, rhythm, and alliteration in poetry by 36 first- and third-grade children. (Author/JMB)

Testing of a group of kindergarten children generally supported the hypotheses that (1) children from schools in higher socioeconomic areas would have significantly more advanced concepts of language than children in lower socioeconomic areas and (2) that this conceptual development would be correlated with more conventional measures of reading…

A summary is given of investigations examining the attitudes of five- to twelve-year old children concerning (1) definitions of health and illness, (2) concepts of causation and prevention, (3) perceptions of vulnerability, and (4) use of health care providers, and suggestions are presented for implementing specific educational processes based on…

The nature of the task of defining words by means of other words and the development of language responses (from children aged four to seven) are discussed in terms of a linguistic analysis of the definitional form and its semantic relations. (Author/RM)

A sample of 144 children from nursery school, first, and third grades were given a series of problems in which they were required to judge which of 2 synchronous events was longer in duration and to rationalize their judgments. (Author/JMB)

The moral concepts entailed in Kohlberg's cognitive-developmental theory of moral judgment are examined and the underlying meta-ethical position is criticized. (Editor)

The central concerns of curriculum are actually value questions. If there can be a source for a theory of curriculum, it is in the direction of philosophy. (Author/MLF)

Thirteen retarded adults at each of three mental age levels (5 to 6, 7 to 8, 9 to 12) were assessed on classification, relativity, and transitivity performance. (Author)

The article describes the framework of two training workshops intended to help elementary classroom teachers make better use of open-ended questions and activities which foster high-level generalizations. Tables provide a summary of thinking models utilized in gifted education and sample teaching units. Eighteen generalizations for the social…

The development of the concept of object permanence was investigated with eight infants with cleft lip/palate and four nonimpaired infants. Superior performance of the cleft lip/palate group was found, possibly due to increased environmental stimulation provided by parents. (DB)

This article presents an overview, description, and assessment of the Associative Group Analysis method for studying conceptual development and changes in belief systems. Three specific applications to evaluation research tasks are used to illustrate its potential. Uses in areas of cross-cultural issues, beliefs, integration, and adaptation are…

This article helps educators use and teach technical vocabulary. A communication model is presented to help visualize the terminology problem. Practical guidelines for terminology usage are discussed, including technical jargon, abbreviations, trade names, conceptual terms, and cybernetics and personification terminology. Audience considerations…