This exploratory piece suggests different ways to look at the process of career development and implies directions for investigators interested in shaping a "theory of practice" for teachers. (Author)

The multitrait-multimethod matrix was used to determine the convergent and divergent validity of the conceptual tempo. (Author/BJG)

The task consisted of categorizing a set of slides depicting concepts of freedom, nonfreedom, justice, and nonjustice. The results of the analysis indicated that abstract thinkers performed significantly better than did concrete thinkers and that performance increased as a function of grade level. (Author/BJG)

A speech act approach to the transition from pre-linguistic to linguistic communication is adopted in order to consider language in relation to behavior and to allow for an emphasis on the use, rather than the form, of language. A pilot study of mothers and infants is discussed. (Author/RM)

This study examines the relative contributions of rote-memorization, analogic formation and rule-operation in the production of plurals. Rule-operation was found to be important in that children producing responses characteristic of a given stage did not produce responses for later stages. Contributions of analogic formation and rote-memorization…

Providing bibliographies, this article suggests components of the reading program that can be directly related to the language process via children's literature. (JC)

Forty-eight kindergarten children were divided into four groups on the basis of their status (preoperational vs. transitional) and whether or not they received inversion-negation training. Results indicated no differences due to status, but differences due to training. Results do not confirm the contention that acceleration can only occur during…

Producers of instructional materials, who claim to teach concepts either by specifically stated behavioral objectives or by simply naming the concept, do not meet basic requirements for instruction at the conceptual level. (Author/AM)

Condensed from "School Shop, Volume 28 (November 1968), 33-35.

Paper presented at Annual Convention of National Council of Teachers of English (Milwaukee, Wis., November 28-30, 1968).

Paper presented at the International Seminar on Experimental Research in Music Education (University of Reading, Reading, England, July 9-16, 1968).

Research based on author's doctoral dissertation, submitted to the Graduate School of the University of California at Los Angeles.

Children's use of proforms in spoken descriptions of real situations was studied and compared with that of adults to explore possible developmental progressions in the use of indexical reference. A discourse distinction between situational and textual reference was applied to data from 6-year-old and 10-year-old children and from adults. Subjects…