Report of a General Meeting at the Annual Conference of the National Association of Independent Schools, February 1969.

The purpose of this study was to establish tentative reliability estimates for movement control and force production tasks as the initial phase of a cross-cultural motor-performance study. Ten boys and ten girls for each of seven age groups (ages four through ten) performed four specific tasks. Results are discussed. (MT)

Two studies were conducted to assess the effects of teacher training in analogical reasoning on students' performance of analogy tasks. Participants were 25 fourth-grade teachers and their students, and 23 three to eight year old children in special summer enrichment classes. Results and implications for educational practice are discussed.…

Obtained developmental norms for the Sentence Repetition Test from children (N=1,081) ranging in age from three to 13 years. Utilized a substanially larger number of children in each age group than previous reports. (Author/LLL)

Two experiments involving four and seven normal children four- to eight-years-old examined processes responsible for generative language acquisition and conditions likely to facilitate recombinative generalization. All children learned new syntactic rules to generate three word utterances, regardless of the orderings of agent, action, and object…

Outlines the rudiments of formal logic in a manner comprehensible by preschoolers and early elementary schoolchildren. Includes suggestions as to how the teacher might teach basic logical principles through children's literature and by capitalizing on children's spontaneous responses whenever possible. (CT)

Discusses research supporting the introduction of technology to 3- to 6-year olds. Presents a lesson and activity outline with technology target skills, links to children's literature, and integration with curriculum objectives, as well as an example of a design brief. (JOW)

Presents the results of a survey for K-8 students with three questions: (1) what do mathematicians do?; (2) what types of problems do mathematicians solve?; and (3) what tools do mathematicians use? (KHR)

Reviews a recent report called "The Basic School: A Community for Learning," written by Dr. Ernest Boyer, president of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. Discusses the concept of the Basic School, major emphases of the report, and future directions for basic schooling. (JW)

The ability of 24 children with autism (ages 3-12) to comprehend pretend acts, consisting of an experimenter pouring a pretend substance from a container onto a target figure, was explored. There was no significant difference between subjects and controls in ability to identify the pretend substance, predict the actions' pretend outcome, or…

Explains how role playing can provide enriching experiences that develop children's literacy and numeracy skills. Lists key ingredients of good role playing and suggests ways to plan them and prepare space for them. (SK)

Visualizes the ways in which children and young people think about the environment. Aims to make the thinking of children and young people available and to interpret the meaning of their thoughts about our environment. Children's thoughts were interpreted through drawings done by the children. (Author/SAH)

Presents photographs and the floor plan of a prekindergarten through fifth-grade school building that is designed with teaching and support areas arranged around a large, triangular room that serves as an auditorium, cafeteria, and overflow teaching space. The school also includes a circular media center and rectangular gymnasium. (GR)

This compendium, a deliverable for "Assessments for Social, Emotional, and Academic Learning with Preschool/Elementary-School Children," focuses on tools to assess the social and emotional learning (SEL) of preschool and elementary school students (i.e., five- to ten-year-olds), along with aspects of the contexts in which they learn and…