Kindergarten and first grade children participated in a training program designed to facilitate moral development. Stories that stimulated discussion of solutions to moral issues were read to children in the treatment group. Children in the treatment group, compared to controls, improved significantly in three of four specific areas tested.…

Numerous mathematical examples are presented which illustrate and raise questions about students' tendencies to overgeneralize. (BB)

Examines the effect of relevant group instruction on various children's developmental stages regarding the conception of space. (Author/GA)

The effect of the use of calculators on learning and on calculation is discussed. Also, the effects of the use of calculators in developing countries and for deprived minorities are discussed. (MP)

A sample of 266 eleventh-grade students were used in this research project. The findings imply that particular emphasis should be placed on practice in formula derivation. Other activities related to verbal computational problem-solving ability should be reserved for home assignment. (MP)

The effect of protocol films of contrasting structure (presence or absence of formal interpretive framework) on the acquisition of teacher behavior concepts and reactions to the filmed treatment was investigated. Pre- and post-testing assessed gains in concept acquisition. Effects of manipulating structure on teacher attitudes and concept…

Discusses the construct validity of television viewing derived from four alternative conceptualizations of what it is in television which, when viewed, interacts with human behavior and attitudes. (JMF)

Six groups of nursery schoolers, kindergarteners, and first graders balanced for sex were trained and tested on a series of discrimination learning and transposition problems. (Author)

An analysis of the conceptual development of children between the ages of five and six. The interrelationship of such concepts a big, long, small, and short is discussed. (JLH)

Presenting a general overview of career education in the United States, the author briefly reviews the historical development of career education in the American public education system, analyzes the components of career education, and examines it as a function of institutional type. He concludes that although postsecondary schools have been slow…

The author criticises career education as being too job-oriented, too simplistic, overemphasizing economic productivity, and too confining. She suggests incorporating the best points of career education--its emphasis on the adaptability and decision-making ability of the student--in an educational plan that would replace career education as a…

Second- and third-graders (N=94) from a suburban New Jersey school who had taken the Boehm test of Basic Concepts as kindergartners were given the Stanford Achievement Test, Form W. The obtained grade scores in each subject area were then correlated with the Boehm Test scores. (Author)

Explains how general physics textbooks introduce fundamental concepts on the basis of controversial philosophical outlooks, without indicating this either to the student or the instructor. Examines critically the philosophical approaches in a number of textbooks from a dialectical materialist viewpoint. (Author/GA)

Educational psychology undergraduates were taught in alternating instructional sequences; one sequence was a conceptually oriented lecture followed by a factually oriented self-study, the other sequence was a factual self-study followed by a conceptual lecture. Results more closely supported the predictions derived from the educational set…