This digest reviews children's writing development from socio-cultural, generative, and developmental perspectives. The digest's first section deals with oral language, art, and children's early writing, noting that children use their drawing and talk to support their early exploration and use of print. The second section examines how, in addition…

This paper presents students' drawings of a classroom experience in a statistics course. The drawings offer proof of ways in which teaching practice was effective and also provide an opportunity to understand how students perceive their peers. Included with the drawing exercises were instructions to describe scenes and offer insights into what the…

This paper described findings which accounted for the coexistence of positive and negative results in previous reports and showed how the findings can be explained by a theory of the origin of handedness. (Author/RK)

This is an account of a fifth grade class that made a mosaic and a mosaic that "helped make" a fifth grade class. (Author)

Author felt it necessary to develop a sequential unit which made the students aware of design fundamentals as a tool for development of idea concepts. (Author/RK)

Article describes the advantages of bringing animals into the art room. (RK)

Describes an art teacher's technique of teaching about abstraction in art by having students draw and paint their impressions of various sounds. (GB)

Results of this study suggest the feasibility of using concepts from studies of spoken language for experimental studies of graphic performance. (Authors)

Intellectual realism was investigated by using as a model a cup with the defining feature (the handle) not visible, and a nondefining feature (a painted flower) visible. (Authors/MB)

The results of this study suggest that the human figure drawing does not provide a valid increment to a battery which contains the WISC and the Bender-Gestalt. (Author)

Article describes and illustrates elementary students' paintings on 2 x 2 slides, using felt tip pens and drawing inks as well as paints to achieve experimental effects. Slides were then viewed through a projector. (PD)

Current beliefs about how children draw emphasize the importance of drawing from memory, rather than from observation. However, an experiment with children aged seven to nine showed that observation drawings included greater detail and complexity. More research on observation drawing is recommended. (IS)

Used two spatial and language tasks to investigate that clockwise directionality in circle drawing indicates neutral integration difficulties. Tasks were administered to 106 children, eight years of age. Data were analyzed for sex differences and circling behavior. None of the hypotheses based on Blau's theory was supported. (Author)