CREATING IN SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS AN AWARENESS FOR THE IMPACT OF TECHNOLOGY UPON THEIR DAILY LIVES WAS THE AIM OF THIS STUDY. A NEW ORIENTATION FOR INDUSTRIAL ARTS TEACHERS ATTEMPTED TO DEFINE A CURRICULUM AREA FOR COMPREHENSION OF THE BROAD SCOPE OF AMERICAN INDUSTRY, RATHER THAN THE USUAL FOCUS UPON ISOLATED TRADES, OCCUPATIONS, OR…

Because of the general recognition of the importance of mathematics ability, and the close relationship between mathematics ability and spatial ability, eight studies were undertaken to discover and describe aspects of spatial competence in children. The range of abilities tapped stretched from very early precursor skills with Euclidean space to…

In order to assess young children's conceptions of "pretty" and "ugly", twenty-nine 5- and 6-year-old children (14 male and 15 female) were asked to draw a pretty person and an ugly person. These drawings were scored for developmental maturity according to Goodenough Draw-A-Man Test and for emotionality by means of the Koppitz…

Focusing on the way teachers conceptualize reading and on whether these conceptions influence instructional practice, a study was undertaken utilizing a propositional inventory and a naturalistic field study. The propositional inventory was used in two teacher surveys: the first included 602 teachers and sought to determine their conceptions of…

Part of the PREP Program (Preparatory Reading Program for Visually Handicapped Children), the document presents 10 units, each consisting of a picture story in large print, and emphasizing concept development rather than braille skills. Designed for use in conjunction with the program's other two components, the 10 units are aimed at visually…

The objectives of this study were to determine: (1) the variables that influence the learning of verbal material received by subjects via the aural modality, (2) how learning under conditions of aural reception compare with learning of the same materials under appropriately equivalent visual conditions, and (3) in what combinations learning is…

Studied were the relationships between children's attainment of the concept of conservation of liquid and certain student characteristics. Student factors investigated were socio-economic background (high and low), status levels (conservers and non-conservers), verbal and non-verbal achievement, and science achievement. Classification of subjects…

This study involved examining an instructional unit with regard to its concept content and appropriateness for its target audience. The study attempted to determine (1) what concepts are treated explicitly or implicitly, (2) whether there is a hierarchical conceptual structure within the unit, (3) what level of sophistication is required to…

This report describes two exploration studies which examined the development of infants' intermodal knowledge by examining infants' auditorily guided visual search for objects. Experiment 1 examined intermodal search for the mother and father by 9 infants at each of three age levels: 3, 5, and 7 months of age; the final sample was 23 infants.…

Presented are sample activities from two workbooks and a teacher's guide designed to teach basic concepts to trainable mentally retarded students in the Philippines. Activities are explained to focus on such tasks as visual discrimination, direction following, imitation, auditory discrimination, matching, memory and number concepts. Case studies…

While a critic measures a speech against a number of standards to determine its worth, a historian attempts to explain it in the context of social-institutional activity. After discussing the differences between rhetorical criticism and rhetorical history, this paper distinguishes among various types of historical explanations, illustrates each…

Wilderness, as a state of mind, has persisted among men since the beginning of time. Written history has documented man's struggle with and against it. It has only been during the last century that man, in a societal context, has designated vast tracts of land as wilderness. The extent to which wilderness attributes are perceived and the meaning…

Starting from the premise that administrators, program personnel, and social scientists are equally responsible for the conduct of evaluation, this paper addresses the legitimate role of evaluation research via discussion of: (1) the environment in which evaluation takes place; (2) types of evaluation designs; and (3) selection of an evaluation…

Two experiments were designed to assess children's ability to understand recursive structures of thinking which include thinking about contiguous people, thinking about action between people, thinking about thinking, and thinking about thinking about thinking. In Experiment I, 32 second, fourth, sixth, and eighth graders were tested on eight tasks…

Field testing of the Length Unit of the Money, Measurement and Time Program was conducted with 23 elementary school classes of educable mentally handicapped (EMH) children. The 218 Ss were assigned to the experimental group, the Hawthorne group, or the control group. Two criterion referenced tests were administered to evaluate Ss' measuring skills…