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Wang, Zhenlin; Wang, Lamei; Gao, Xiaozi; Zhu, Liqi – Journal for the Study of Education and Development, 2023
This study examined the cognitive predictors and constraints of children's strategic offers in the Ultimatum Game. The Ultimatum Game is a one-shot negotiation on the division of a given sum of rewards between two people, where the receiver has the right to punish the proposer by rejecting unfair offers, which results in nil reward for either…
Descriptors: Games, Young Children, Theory of Mind, Cognitive Ability
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Khng, Kiat-Hui; Ng, Ee-Lynn – Journal for the Study of Education and Development, 2021
Research shows that executive functions (EF) and fine motor skills (FMS) contribute to early academic skills, possibly in overlapping ways. We examine whether and how EF and FMS interact in the concurrent prediction of maths, reading and spelling skills at the start of kindergarten. Structural Equation Modelling (SEM) on data from 1248…
Descriptors: Psychomotor Skills, Executive Function, Predictor Variables, Mathematics Skills
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Zadunaisky-Ehrlich, Sara; Seroussi, Batia; Stavans, Anat – Journal for the Study of Education and Development, 2021
Spelling errors are considered a paramount criterion in the evaluation of written texts. The present study aimed: (1) to describe the developmental path of spelling errors in expository texts written by Hebrew-speaking children from the second to fifth grades; and (2) to reveal the predictive power of cognitive, linguistic and reading variables on…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Hebrew, Grade 2, Grade 3