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Download full textRudner, Lawrence M.; Wise, Lauress L. – 1989
The Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) is one of the major bibliographic databases in the world. The ERIC Clearinghouse on Tests, Measurement, and Evaluation (ERIC/TM) contributes to this database by acquiring, selecting, and processing documents pertaining to all aspects of testing, evaluation, and learning theory. The ERIC/TM has…
Descriptors: Bibliographic Databases, Clearinghouses, Database Management Systems, Database Producers
Hurd, Paul DeHart – 1986
This information bulletin examines research and practice issues considered critical in resolving the crisis in science education. Analyses are presented of (1) the current reform movement in science education, (2) the changing culture of science, (3) science education research, (4) the rise of the cognitive sciences, (5) science teachers and…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Elementary School Science, Elementary Secondary Education, Opinion Papers
Zimiles, Herbert – 1986
Changing ideas about the role of early education increasingly point toward universal preschool education for all children. Early education has come to serve many purposes but, as it expands, there is danger that the particular needs of young children will be overlooked by both professionals and parents. This essay underlines the vulnerability of…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Educational Development, Educational Quality, Family Characteristics
Carew, Jean V. – 1980
The main purpose of this paper is to delineate methods of data collection and coding currently being used in a longitudinal observational study of toddlers in 25 black families in Oakland, California. Data collection activities, accomplished through monthly three-hour visits to each home, focused on five types of data: (1) videotaped and…
Descriptors: Blacks, Child Development, Data Collection, Family Environment
Goncu, Artin – 1985
The primary aim of this discussion is to demonstrate that social pretend play is a process of negotiation involving children's attempts to reach minimal agreements in order to maintain the play activity. The second purpose is to show that the quality of negotiation changes in content and form as social pretense evolves and that this process is…
Descriptors: Children, Cognitive Ability, Emotional Experience, Pretend Play
Schleicher, Klaus – 1979
A human ecological approach to the study of children's television viewing raises questions that researchers have largely neglected. Does television influence the interaction patterns of socializing agents with children and with one another? Are there long-term, psychological consequences of unintegrated and competing influences from television and…
Descriptors: Ecological Factors, Educational Development, Educational Television, Foreign Countries
Helm, Judy Harris, Ed. – 2000
Projects are in-depth studies of a topic undertaken by a class, a group, or an individual child. Projects are intended to strengthen children's dispositions to be interested, absorbed, and involved in in-depth observation, investigation, and representation of worthwhile phenomena in their own environments. This Catalog on the Project Approach, the…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Administrator Role, Cartography, Cooperative Learning
