Young children often play fantasy or pretend games. It's especially common between about 2 and 7 years or age. It starts in simple  ways. The Swiss psychologist, Jean Piaget described how as early as 15 months his daughter Jacqueline lay down on a cloth, sucked her thumb and blinked her ...

The term 'non-verbal test' is used to describe a range of paper-and-pencil tests designed to tap a selection of cognitive processes that are unlikely to involve verbal language. This does not mean that verbal instructions and verbal strategies have been entirely eliminated for all those who take these tests; it ...

The most gratifying academic research is that which helps to confirm something we already suspected to be true. That is why Dr Scott Armstrong, Associate Professor of Management at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, has enjoyed so pleasing a response to his latest paper, at least from ...

In order to convey information and notions about time adults use a complex set of conventions. Of interest is children's ability to grasp and use these conventions.

Pupils with IQs in the range 70- 90 are usually in regular secondary school classes. They make up some 5% to 10% of the average first year high school intake. Such pupils are frequently reported to have difficulty with the traditional secondary school curricula, but their teachers seldom have any ...

These scales are designed to obtain teacher estimates of a student's characteristics in the areas of learning, motivation, creativity, and leadership. The items are derived from the research literature dealing with characteristics of gifted and creative persons. It should be pOinted out that a considerable amount of individual differences can ...

We have all had the experience at some time of being given a good test which has been ruined or just made less 'do-able' by clumsy layout and unsatisfactory reproduction. Poor layout and defective reproduction do not help motivation, and in the worst cases make it difficult for those sitting ...

There are pitfalls when immigrant and minority language students are given psychological tests. Educators in many countries are becoming aware of them. In Canada, for example, most of the school boards in Metropolitan Toronto delay the administration of formal diagnostic tests and group tests of ability and achievement until students ...

This item contains a short list of words about computers in education, then a computerese glossary light-heartedly compiled by Jef Raskin and first published in Apple, Vol.1, No.1, reprinted by permission.

The focus of our research was on what supervising adults do. We were interested in behavioural processes. Two play centres and two free kindergartens running V2 day sessions, and two day-care centres agreed to participate in the study. All centres (reflecting the dominant approach in New Zealand) run child-centred free ...