This study attempted to determine whether children will relinquish their belief in Piagetian concepts upon presentation of disconfirming evidence. Two age groups were tested: third- and fourth-grade and sixth-grade. Conservation of weight and transitivity of weight were the concepts examined; the discrepant feedback consisted of three trials with…

This study focuses on two major factors which predict success in science teaching, knowledge of the subject matter and the teacher's "teaching personality." The purpose of this study was to identify these influential characteristics which affect concept acquisition, while determining their relationships with the major projected patterns of…

A basic assumption of this study is that the meaning continuum registered by an adjective pair remains relatively constant over a large universe of concepts and over subjects within a relatively homogeneous population. An attempt was made to validate this assumption by showing the invariance of the factor structure across different types of…

The extent to which pictorial presentation would facilitate the comprehension of text-like passages among two populations of fourth-grade students was investigated. Subjects were 64 students each in high-socioeconomic status (SES) white and low-SES black groups. Simple passages amenable to pictorial presentation were read over a programed tape to…

Based on background research showing that both impulsive and inhibited children are deficient to better-adjusted classmates in ability to conceptualize alternative solutions to real-life problems and potential consequences to a given act, a study was conducted to aid the child in thinking for himself of ways to solve his own interpersonal problems…

This module for development of proficiency in identification of key social studies concepts and in teaching these concepts in an efficient and meaningful manner introduces the teacher-trainee to background information on concept formation and methods for planning and teaching social studies concepts. A sequence of activities is designed to develop…

This paper reviews self theory that explores self as being a product of social interactions. From this theory it is seen that self formation is a developmental process which takes place within the social system. The individual's inferences from his social behavior define his self-concept, and a self-concept which has career relevance is the…

This report considers the problem of constructing an abstract model of story comprehension. The use of questions that go beyond the story as a test of understanding the story raises a methodological problem which is discussed in detail. (Author)

Elementary school (kindergarten through sixth grade) deaf children were exposed to varied thinking activities based on J. Piaget's principle of action rooted intelligence to determine if thinking might be successfully encouraged in the classroom through activities which were not highly dependent on verbal performance. Each class of approximately…

The concept of self is basically derived from: (1) the responses made toward the individual by significant people in his immediate environment; (2) his perceptions of their behavior relevant to him; (3) the internalization of his perceptions into a coherent set of self-views; (4) the resultant self which he perceives as reflected back into the…

Both associative and conceptual learning are presumed to be of importance in reading at all developmental levels. However, it is hypothesized in the present study that there is a stronger relationship between beginning reading and associative learning than between beginning reading and conceptual learning. Conversely, it is hypothesized that there…

This study of concept learning was intended to supply data concerning the interaction of different values of three variables with each other. These three variables which may influence concept learning are augmentive information, method of presentation, and instance difficulty. Three types of specific review (total, partial, and none) were used,…

For knowledge of organizational communication to increase, new concepts must be developed and correlative or even causal relationships between communication concepts and other organizational variables must be established. Here, meanings of "organization,""information,""communication," and "other organizational variables" are explicated, and three…

Bilingual vs. unilingual instruction was studied in the teaching of 5 positional-preposition concepts (e.g., under) to Mexican American Headstart 4-year-olds. Treatments consisted of instruction in Spanish only, English only, or bilingually to the 48 subjects exposed to the prepositional concepts via tape-recorded programmed instruction given…

AN INVESTIGATION WAS UNDERTAKEN TO EXPLORE THE INSTRUCTIONAL IMPLICATIONS OF JEAN PIAGET'S POSITION ON EQUILIBRATION. ONE PURPOSE WAS TO TEST THE GENERAL HYPOTHESIS THAT THE MISCONCEPTIONS OF CHILDREN, WHEN DISPLACED BY EVIDENCE CONTRARY TO THE MISCONCEPTIONS, GIVE RISE TO COGNITIVE CONFLICTS. THE RESULTS, IN GENERAL, CONFIRM THIS HYPOTHESIS. A…