This study determined reliability of the Boehm Basic Concept Test (designed to assist the primary teacher assess basic conceptual knowledge) for rural kindergarten and first grade children. They found the rural reliability to be less than that reported for urban samples especially for middle and upper class children. The reduced reliability was…

Expressions may be incorporated in many ways to teach speech, language, and concepts to hearing impaired children from primary to secondary levels. (DB)

Subjects stratified by ability and extroversion initially achieved concept attainment in homogeneous (all introverts or all extroverts) or heterogeneous (one-half of the members extroverts) personality groups. Concepts were attained individually in a subsequent transfer stage. (Authors/JA)

Six year olds and college students were given two or four conceptual problems to solve, the number of rules within the series of problems being either one or two. Number of rules and the interaction of number of rules and age of subject were found to be significant variables. (CS)

Programed units of instruction designed with four different sequences of characterizations and exemplifications of disjunctive concepts were given to preservice elementary school teachers. Students were tested on three levels of concept attainment, with differences between strategies resulting, as one moves through the levels of cognitive…

In testing conservation of number in preschool children using both equality and inequality; 3- and 4-year-olds tended to use an acquiescence response set while 5- and 6-year-olds responded in terms of relative length. (ST)

Hooper's finding that identity conservation develops prior to equivalence conservation was investigated using a more stringent within-subject design. (Editor)

This paper confronts two interrelated problems, that problem dealing with the psychological concept of attitudes and the problem of attitude measurement. (Author)

Study explores the preschool child's ability to operate on a cognitive level by testing his capacity to compare a concrete stimulus with some abstract concept. (Author/CB)

Authors define new dimensions in the field of educational technology. They suggest that learners in a technological society should have the benefits of technology for instruction and that the traditional concept of media as aids'' to instruction be changed to media as one means of delivering instruction.''

An experiment was conducted to investigate memory in a concept (CI) identification problem as a function of the number of trials. As the performance was significantly better, it was concluded that participants actively try to store and retain information during their search for a solution. (Author/KM)

Tested the effectiveness of a 120-problem learning set for teaching simple classification skills to blind children, as compared to a general enrichment program administered to a matched control group. The learning set facilitated mastery of classification, indicating that this training can accelerate the acquisition of Piagetian concepts in…

Scores on three measures of conceptual complexity were related to a number of biographic and demographic variables. Grade point average and academic major were examined for implications of conceptual complexity for education; religious affiliation and voting preference for connections between levels of conceptual functioning and antecedent…