Three national evaluation efforts--Head Start, Follow through Planned Variation, and Head Start Planned Variation--are reviewed to examine their effectiveness concerning the trainability of intelligence in disadvantaged children during preschool and elementary grades. The evidence on the effectiveness of these projects is highly controversial, but…

Provides guidelines enabling teachers to meet their legal and moral obligation to report possible cases of child abuse and neglect. (Author/RH)

Brief answers are provided to 50 questions concerning basic reading research and how a parent can help teach reading. (SJL)

Discusses the virtues of philosophy that carry over from teaching philosophy in higher education to teaching philosophy to children. Examines the characteristics of the "Philosophy for Children" program. Discusses the use of that program for teaching children about ethical values. (BC)

Circumscribed interests are a fascinating and an understudied phenomenon in some individuals with autism spectrum disorders (ASD). Research in this area is likely to contribute to our understanding of ASDs and to advancing developmental knowledge on learning processes used to adapt to the demands of everyday social life. This study reports on a…

This monograph reports on a study of six child prodigies whose talents are manifested in writing, music, and mathematics. The boys, aged 3.5-9 years, were observed in natural settings and while practicing their talent specialty, and interviews were conducted with the boys, their parents, and their teachers. The study concludes that prodigies focus…

This study investigates teachers' gender associations of school-related objects and activities. Thirty-four female teachers, from the preschool level to the seventh grade, were taught three different nonsense words representing the concepts masculine, feminine, and farms (neuter). The teachers were then presented with a list of 24 new words and…

This study was designed to determine whether children's judgments of another's emotional state are based on egocentric or perspectivistic reasoning processes. A total of 91 children, between the ages of 3 and 10, at three grade levels, were shown a series of photographs containing conflicting situational and expressive cues to the pictured child's…

This annotated bibliography announces journal articles, dissertations, and other documents related to science and mathematics for young children. The documents cited are expected to be useful to teachers, curriculum developers, and research personnel. The bibliography updates, but does not replace a bibliography published in September, 1969, (ED…

Four studies examined the cognitive bases of children's judgments of morality. Over 240 children from preschool to fourth grade were participants. Moral dilemmas consisting of information about a character's motives and the consequences of his actions were devised in such a way that the order, concreteness and imageability of information were…

COMPUPLAY, a program of the National Lekotek Center (Illinois) for handicapped children (ages 2-14) emphasizes the value of parent/child play activities using computers and provides computer support and resources to parents and professionals. (DB)

The Revised Denver Developmental Screening Test and parental reports of developmental concerns were compared for effectiveness in predicting school problems four years after a preschool screening program. Results suggested the test accurately identified only those children later found to have severe learning problems. (Author/DB)

Based on data collected from official statistics and analyzed with structural equation models, this study indicated that preschool education produced a lasting effect on success in elementary school. In addition, evaluation using routinely collected data in replicable structural models is seen as a valuable strategy for education system control…

Examined relationship between children's gender constancy level and their sex-role knowledge and preferences. Results suggested that with the effects of age controlled, high-gender constant children had more knowledge both of the opposite sex and of their own sex than low-gender constant children. (Author/RWB)

Directives, social conversation, on-task play, and positive, negative, nonsense, and task-related verbalizations of preschool-aged and school-aged peer dyads were observed in a laboratory playroom in the presence or absence of observers. Results revealed that the frequency of all of the behaviors sampled, except positive verbalizations, decreased…