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The Pre-School Assessment Program.
Rockdale County Public Schools, Conyers, GA. – 1968
The purpose of the pre-school assessment program described is to improve the first grade curriculum and make it more meaningful to all students through early identification of strengths and weaknesses, coupled with appropriate follow up activities. Children (340) entering the Rockdale County, Georgia, first grade in the fall of 1968 completed a…
Descriptors: Educational Testing, Learning Readiness, Maturity Tests, Preschool Tests
Retirement Maturity: A Valuable Concept for Preretirement Counselors.
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Johnson, Richard P.; Riker, Harold C. – Personnel and Guidance Journal, 1981
The construct of occupational maturity can be extended to create a concept of readiness to retire--retirement maturity. Two significant factors affecting retirement maturity are retirement work plans and retirement residence plans. The Career Development Inventory, Adult seems to be a valuable tool for preretirement counselors. (Author)
Descriptors: Career Development, Counseling Techniques, Life Style, Maturity Tests
A Study of the Relationship Between Gesell's Developmental Age and Piaget's Concept of Conservation.
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Civretta, Adeline E. – 1971
A study was conducted to determine whether a significant correlation exists between developmental age and the concept of conservation. The hypothesis was that if developmental age and the concept of conservation are related, then stages of understanding conservation will increase as developmental age increases. Ss consisted of 30 primary children…
Descriptors: Age Grade Placement, Cognitive Tests, Conservation (Concept), Developmental Tasks
YOUNG CHILDREN'S THINKING, STUDIES OF SOME ASPECTS OF PIAGET'S THEORY.
ALMY, MILLIE; AND OTHERS – 1966
TWO STUDIES DEAL WITH THE THOUGHT PROCESSES CHILDREN DISPLAY WHEN FACED WITH PROBLEMS INVOLVING THE CONCEPTS OF QUANTITY AND NUMBER. INVOLVING CHILDREN IN KINDERGARTEN, FIRST GRADE AND SECOND GRADE, THE STUDIES USE PIAGET'S THEORIES IN BOTH A CROSS-SECTIONAL AND A LONGITUDINAL APPROACH TO STUDY CHILDREN'S THINKING IN AN EDUCATIONAL SETTING. TO…
Descriptors: Child Development, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation
Readiness Checklist.
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National Consortia for Bilingual Education, Fort Worth, TX.
The Readiness Checklist is a 69-item instrument that provides a measure of the psychomotor development of children. It covers seven main areas: general health, movement patterns and muscular coordination, auditory skills, visual skills, speech and language, personal independence, and social adjustment. The checklist is designed to measure a…
Descriptors: Auditory Evaluation, Behavior Patterns, Bilingual Education, Child Development
School Readiness Factor Analyzed.
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Brenner, Anton; Scott, Leland H. – 1971
This paper is an empirical statistical analysis and interpretation of data relating to school readiness previously examined and reported on a theoretical basis. A total of 118 white, middle class children from six consecutive kindergarten groups in Dearborn, Michigan were tested with seven instruments, evaluated in terms of achievement, ability,…
Descriptors: Factor Analysis, Learning Readiness, Maturity Tests, Middle Class
School Readiness, Behavior Tests Used at the Gesell Institute.
Ilg, Frances L.; Ames, Louise Bates – 1964
This combined text and manual presents the basic educational viewpoint of the Gesell Institute, that children should be entered in school (and consequently grouped and promoted) on the basis of their developmental or behavioral age, not on the basis of their chronological age or IQ. The introduction describes the research in which the Institute…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Behavior Development, Behavior Rating Scales, Cognitive Development