The middle school originated out of an understanding for the need of a learning environment geared specifically to the needs of the early adolescent. The transition from concrete to formal operational thought and the affective and psychomotor developmental stages demonstrate the uniqueness of the early adolescent experience. (JN)

Proper warm-up is important for any activity, but designing an effective warm-up can be time consuming. An alternative approach is to take a cue from Laban Movement Analysis (LMA) and consider movement design from the perspective of space and planes of motion. Efficient warm-up exercises using LMA are described. (SM)

Human toddlers demonstrate striking failures when searching for hidden objects that interact with other objects, yet successfully locate hidden objects that do not undergo mechanical interactions. This pattern hints at a developmental dissociation between contact-mechanical and spatiotemporal knowledge. Recent studies suggest that adult non-human…

Competency waivers for major physical education sport and dance classes developed by the women's physical education staff at Washington State University are discussed. (RC)

When designing educational resources, it is important to have a clear understanding of the instructional problem you are attempting to solve, both in terms of its appropriate domain and level. While the cognitive, affective, and psychomotor domains are not mutually exclusive, one will usually predominate. In determining the appropriate level, it…

Behavioral objectives serve several functions: (1) identify expected learner outcomes for a given lesson or unit of study, (2) provide a basis for selection and organization of materials and experiences for effective learning, (3) provide a systematic means for devising ways of evaluating student performance and (4) provide a means to identify…

This taxonomy should be read with Mr. Annarino's article, "Physical Education Objective; Traditional vs. Developmental," published in the October 1977 issue of "Journal of Physical Education and Recreation." (PBS)

Reviews several schemes for organizing science laboratory objectives and activities and for analyzing several techniques designed to measure these laboratory outcomes. The need for further study and analysis of psychomotor behaviors in science education is emphasized. (HM)

Reports research into the relationship between compressed motion pictures and the learning of psychomotor tasks. Concludes that an instructional sound film demonstrating a simple psychomotor task can be compressed to rates up to 33 1/3 percent for immediate measures and 50 percent for delayed measures without significantly affecting students'…

Considered conceptual learning in music education and its meaning for students. (RK)

Discusses various alternatives appearing in instructional system, personal philosophy, educational theory, and learning process; indicates the importance of understanding students' perception as well as teachers' own beliefs in curriculum designing. (CC)

Subjects were Zambian elementary school children, ages 7-17, providing evidence of weight conservation behavior and those who did not; principal dependent variable was performance on locally-developed psychometric measures of reasoning ability. Very little connection was found between the conservation-status of the subjects and their performance…

Examines psychomotor development of infants in the United States, Europe, Asia and Oceania, India, the Middle East, Africa, Latin America, the Orient and Hawaii. (SB)