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Brault, Guy – Francais dans le Monde, 1983
The literature of foreign language research is reviewed for its applications of the expressions "learner-centered instruction" and "communicative approach." It is proposed that the emphasis in these approaches is misplaced and produces resistance rather than willingness by the students. (MSE)
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Communicative Competence (Languages), French, Language Research

Dean, Raymond S.; Kundert, Deborah King – Journal of School Psychology, 1981
Experimental results indicated that verbal intelligence was the best predictor of childrens' overall performance on a paired-associate learning task. Teachers' ratings provided a surprising degree of predictive efficiency for abstract recall which was redundant with verbal intelligence. (Author/JAC)
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Academic Aptitude, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students

Marshall, Hermine H. – Young Children, 2003
Discusses assumptions and pressures underlying academic redshirting for kindergartners. Examines teachers' and parents' beliefs about kindergarten readiness. Summarizes research on the effects of the academic and social domains of delaying children's entry into school. Offers suggestions for early childhood educators about how to help families in…
Descriptors: Beliefs, Decision Making, Definitions, Kindergarten

Fedoruk, Genevieve M. – Educational Research Quarterly, 1989
Research on the construct of teachability is reviewed. Teachability refers to a teacher's views of students' amenability to instruction and their likelihood of success in school. A critique of the sparse research indicates disagreement about whether the concept is an absolute student condition. (SLD)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Assessment, Elementary Secondary Education, Instructional Effectiveness

Grant, Darlene; Haynes, Dennis – Social Work in Education, 1995
Presents a developmental framework for cultural competence training with children. Recommends that social workers synchronize training with children's developmental levels and cultural learning readiness in cognitive, affective, and behavioral areas. Translates multicultural practice theory into concrete skills and methods that social workers can…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Child Development, Children, Cross Cultural Training
Chinien, Chris A.; Boutin, France – Performance Improvement Quarterly, 1992
This qualitative study evaluated the cognitive style construct field-dependent/independent as a selection criteria for student subjects for formative evaluation of instructional material. Four college students interacting with a computer-assisted instruction package were observed, and data on subject readiness, researcher/subject interactions,…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Field Dependence Independence, Formative Evaluation, Higher Education

Wilson, R. Graham; Lynn, Richard – Educational Psychology: An International Journal of Experimental Educational Psychology, 1990
Presents a study of Irish primary and secondary schoolchildren learning Irish as a second language. Discusses intelligence abilities, attainment in Irish, personality traits, and attitude toward learning foreign languages. Concludes personality measures were not strongly related to cognitive measures, but attitude may play a role. Reports no…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Individual Characteristics, Intelligence

Brember, Ivy; Davies, Julie – Educational Psychology: An International Journal of Experimental Educational Psychology, 1997
Examines the reading attainment levels of a group of elementary students who had either experienced nursery, day care, or no preschool provision outside the home. Compares pupils' scores on reading tests over four years. Although the results were inconclusive they suggest positive reading attainment outcomes related to preschool experience. (MJP)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Day Care, Educational Attainment, Elementary Schools

Angell, Ann V. – Theory and Research in Social Education, 1998
Probes the interaction between teacher-education experiences and existing student beliefs, through observation and analysis of two elementary teaching candidates' experience in social studies methods courses and student teaching. Suggests that beliefs can facilitate professional growth if articulated as tools for reflection, but can be obstacles…
Descriptors: Beliefs, Case Studies, Elementary Education, Higher Education

Bryan, Tanis; And Others – Learning Disability Quarterly, 1996
Sixty middle school students, half average-achieving and half with learning disabilities (LD), were assigned to either a positive or neutral mood induction condition prior to receiving instruction in elementary Hindi language (to control for effects of prior knowledge). Across a two-week period, the LD students in the positive condition performed…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Emotional Experience, Hindi, Intermediate Grades

Starkey, Prentice; Klein, Alice – Early Education and Development, 2000
Examined the impact of a bi-generational mathematics intervention with Head Start families in two studies. Found that intervention children developed more extensive mathematical knowledge than a comparison group of low-income children. Low-income parents were willing and able to support the children's mathematical development once trained to do…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Family (Sociological Unit), Intervention, Knowledge Level
US Department of Health and Human Services, Head Start Bureau, 2006
This Technical Assistance Paper offers guidance to programs regarding the implementation of the "Head Start Program Performance Standards" on child health and developmental services, child health and safety, and child nutrition. The paper examines how physical health influences children's development and how child health and development…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Physical Health, Technical Assistance, Physical Activities
Popejoy, Michael W. – 1994
This five part paper reviews problems faced by underprepared students and describes a model developed by faculty at the South Campus of Florida's Palm Beach Community College for dealing with such students. Section I reviews issues related to defining student underpreparedness and developing a model to serve all types of underprepared students,…
Descriptors: College Preparation, College Role, Community Colleges, Educationally Disadvantaged
Van Ness, Ross – 1995
Healthy self-esteem is the yeast in the recipe of learning. Studies into the intellectual-emotional connections in the human brain show that the affective domain is the gateway to the cognitive domain and so effective ways to raise self-esteem, which are covered in this booklet, are an important component of education. The first part of the text…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, College Students, Elementary School Students, Elementary Secondary Education
Nebraska State Dept. of Education, Lincoln. Office of Child Development. – 1992
This booklet emphasizes the importance of National Education Goal 1, which states that all children should be ready to learn when they start school. The booklet also explains the educational and social effects that early childhood programs can have on young children, and shows how the Nebraska State Board of Education, citizen groups, and school…
Descriptors: Check Lists, Community Programs, Delivery Systems, Early Childhood Education