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The Preschool Child's Knowledge Of Musical Pitch, Farol Ann Nelson
The Preschool Child's Knowledge Of Musical Pitch, Farol Ann Nelson
All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023
The objective of this study was to determine what kinds of musical instruments were most effective in developing pitch discrimination in preschool children. Five melody instruments were used in this study, including a wooden soprano recorder, a C flute, a commercially made xylophone, a melodica, and a set of cut conduit pipes played as a xylophone-type instrument. Children from the Child Development Labs at Utah State University, Logan, Utah comprised the sample.
It was found that children do identify high and low pitches more easily in some instruments than in others. They discriminated between high and low pitches of the …
Verbal Memory Of Preschool Indian And Non/Indian Headstart Children, Karen L. Swenson Carter
Verbal Memory Of Preschool Indian And Non/Indian Headstart Children, Karen L. Swenson Carter
All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023
The purpose of this study was to test the hypotheses l) there is a significant difference between scores of Head Start children on the Uintah and Ouray Indian Reservation in Utah and the norms of the Verbal Memory Test from the McCarthy Scales of Children's Abilities; 2) there will not be an association between being Indian or non-Indian; 3 ) there will be an association between teaching styles and the children's performance on the language test. The T test was used to analyze all of the data. The experimental sample scored lower, but not significantly lower than the standardized norms. …
Development Of Cooperation Between Children In The Minimal Social Situation, Janice V. Siegel
Development Of Cooperation Between Children In The Minimal Social Situation, Janice V. Siegel
All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023
The purpose of this study was to determine whether children can learn to cooperate in what has been described as the "minimal social situation." The research also compared the effectiveness of verbal instructions and a training task for teaching subjects the "win-stay, lose-change" rule. This rule has been used to explain the development of cooperation in the minimal social situation.
Subjects were 19 teams of first-, second-, and third-graders. Five teams were composed of two girls; six were girl-boy teams; and eight were boy-boy teams. Ten of the 19 teams learned to cooperate in the minimal social situation without treatment. …
Visual Perception Training For Kindergarten Children: Research Action Project, Nancy Ann Parker White
Visual Perception Training For Kindergarten Children: Research Action Project, Nancy Ann Parker White
Graduate Theses and Dissertations
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Integration And Memory In Very Young Children., Danuta Bukatko
Integration And Memory In Very Young Children., Danuta Bukatko
Doctoral Dissertations 1896 - February 2014
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Death In Children's Literature, Joyce Ann Kaufman
Death In Children's Literature, Joyce Ann Kaufman
Honors Theses
Mr. Wordsworth posed an interesting question. What should a child know about death?
Often we try to protect children from death. Euphemisms are used regarding death. People and pets do not die, they "pass away," "go to sleep," or "go to live in heaven." When a death occurs in a family, the adults often say of a young child, "It doesn't seem to bother him. Maybe he doesn't realize what has happened." Other people may mention that "He has accepted it so well. Children adapt so easily."