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Halberda, Justin; Feigenson, Lisa – Developmental Psychology, 2008
Behavioral, neuropsychological, and brain imaging research points to a dedicated system for processing number that is shared across development and across species. This foundational Approximate Number System (ANS) operates over multiple modalities, forming representations of the number of objects, sounds, or events in a scene. This system is…
Descriptors: Number Systems, Neurology, Child Development, Children
Sabharwal, Seema – Online Submission, 2009
The purpose of the study was to examine if there was a significant difference between first-grade English Learners (EL) who constitute a majority (greater than 50%) of the English language mainstream classroom (homogeneous grouping) and first-grade EL who constitute a minority (less than 50%) of the English language mainstream classrooms…
Descriptors: Questionnaires, Homogeneous Grouping, Heterogeneous Grouping, Grade 1
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Bouwmeester, Samantha; Sijtsma, Klaas – Multivariate Behavioral Research, 2007
Fuzzy trace theory posits that during development the use of verbatim information for solving transitive relationships shifts to the use of gist information. In cognitive developmental research that uses a cross-sectional design, the binomial mixture model is often used to identify such shifts. Because the binomial mixture model assumes equal task…
Descriptors: Item Response Theory, Developmental Psychology, Developmental Stages, Cognitive Development