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Scales, Peter C. – Clearing House, 1996
Offers a detailed examination of both external and internal assets that middle school students may have, and discusses those that can be significantly affected by middle schools. Describes what successful middle schools do, and discusses teacher training and positive youth development. (SR)
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Developmental Stages, Developmental Tasks

Jansen, Brenda R. J.; van der Maas, Han L. J. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2002
The use of rules on nonverbal balance scale problems was studied among 5- to 19-year-olds. Latent class analyses indicated that children used rules, that different rules were used by children of different ages, and that both consistent and inconsistent rule use occurred. A model for the development of reasoning about the balance scale task was…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Age Differences, Children, Cognitive Development

Nippold, Marilyn A.; Rudzinski, Mishelle – Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 1993
Students (n=150) ages 11, 14, and 17 were asked to explain the meanings of 24 different idiomatic expressions. Performance on the task gradually improved as subject age increased. High-familiarity idioms were easier to explain than moderate-familiarity or low-familiarity expressions. Easier idioms tended to be more transparent. (Author/JDD)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Developmental Tasks, Difficulty Level, Idioms

French, Martha – Perspectives in Education and Deafness, 1995
Writing programs for students with deafness should include teacher-demonstration ("writing aloud"), shared writing, and independent and guided writing done by students. Activities at each developmental level should focus on emerging writers--getting acquainted with print; beginning writers--using written language; developing writers--learning the…
Descriptors: Deafness, Developmental Tasks, Elementary Secondary Education, Reading Writing Relationship
Bower, Bruce – Science News, 1999
Discusses the use of a dynamic approach to explain how young children master motor skills and perform an array of cognitive feats including word learning. Introduces a perspective that is a departure from established scientific theories of the mind. Argues that a child's physical, mental, and social lives arise out of a shifting interplay between…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Developmental Stages, Developmental Tasks, Early Childhood Education

Welton, Gary L.; Houser, Mimsie D. – Counseling and Values, 1997
Drug experimenters and drug abstainers were compared on identity achievement at a traditional, conservative, independent college (N=155). Drug abstainers were found to be more foreclosed than experimenters; however, in contrast to previous research, abstainers were not more identity-achieved. Additional findings and results are discussed.…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Adolescents, College Students, Developmental Tasks
Burlew, Larry D.; Roland, Catherine Buffalino; Moll, Christine – Adultspan Journal, 2000
A basic goal for individuals as they struggle to face normative developmental tasks across their life span is to determine how to make meaning of their experiences, real and vicarious. The authors describe a workshop that gave counselors and human service practitioners meaning-making strategies that they could use in their personal and…
Descriptors: Adult Development, Counseling Techniques, Counselor Training, Counselors
Kramer, Arthur F.; Gonzalez de Sather, Jessica C. M.; Cassavaugh, Nicholas D. – Developmental Psychology, 2005
The present study was conducted to examine the development of attentional and oculomotor control. More specifically, the authors were interested in the development of the ability to inhibit an incorrect but prepotent response to a salient distractor. Participants, who ranged in age from 8 to 25 years, performed 3 different eye movement tasks: a…
Descriptors: Eye Movements, Attention Control, Testing, Developmental Tasks
Kruger, Lenette; Prinsloo, Heila – South African Journal of Education, 2008
Middle adolescents are exposed to environments riddled with potential adversities which pervade their lives, adding to the challenges inherent in their developmental stage. They spend a significant time in school and therefore it is an appropriate context to foster, enhance, and develop emotional, social, and cognitive resilience competencies.…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Resilience (Psychology), Adolescent Development, Emotional Development
Halpern, Robert – Youth & Society, 2006
In this article, the author draws on a study of an after-school initiative serving inner-city high school students to describe and reflect on ways in which apprenticeship-like experiences support work on a variety of developmental tasks. The author describes key dimensions of the apprenticeship experience, discusses challenges faced by…
Descriptors: Youth Programs, Apprenticeships, After School Programs, Urban Areas
Cole, Pamela M.; Tamang, Babu Lal; Shrestha, Srijana – Child Development, 2006
Tamang and Brahman Nepali children have culturally specific emotion scripts that may reflect different emotion socialization experiences. To study emotion socialization, the child-adult interactions of 119 children (3-5 years old) were observed and 14 village elders were interviewed about child competence in Tamang and Brahman villages. Tamang…
Descriptors: Cultural Differences, Young Children, Psychological Patterns, Socialization
Erikson, Erik H. – 1997
This expanded edition of a 1982 book by Erik Erikson summarizes his work on the stages of the human life cycle, including chapters on psychosexuality and the cycle of generations, major stages in psychosocial development, and ego and ethos. An additional chapter on the ninth stage sets forth his philosophy on old age--i.e. the 80s and 90s--and how…
Descriptors: Adult Development, Adult Learning, Adults, Aging (Individuals)

Borke, Helene – Developmental Psychology, 1975
Reexamined the theoretical question of early childhood egocentrism by replicating Piaget and Inhelder's mountain experiment with variations to insure the age appropriateness of the task for 3- and 4-year-old children. (SDH)
Descriptors: Developmental Psychology, Developmental Tasks, Egocentrism, Empathy
The Relationship between the Professional Career Development and Adult Life Cycle for Women and Men.
Phillips, Rebecca R. – 1982
The Career Development Inventory--Adult Form was used to measure career development, and three instruments were used to measure the life cycle or personal phasic development in order to seek a relationship between the adult life cycle and the professional career development cycle for women and men. Population for the study was a random sample of…
Descriptors: Adult Development, Adults, Aging (Individuals), Career Development
Tolan, Patrick H. – 1985
The concept of juvenile court and juvenile delinquency as distinct from adult crime is grounded in the idea of allowing adolescents more consideration because they are not quite adults, cognitively, psychologically, or socially. These developmental progressions within the individual and complementary societal changes in how the individual is…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Behavior Patterns, Delinquency