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Fish, Lesenia R.; Hildebrand, Lindsey; Chernyak, Nadia; Cordes, Sara – Child Development, 2023
Games are frequently used to promote math learning, yet the competitive and collaborative contexts introduced by games may exacerbate gender differences. In this study, 1st and 2nd grade children in the U.S. (ages 5-8; N = 274; 70% White, 15% Asian, 2% Black, 1% Native American, 14% mixed or other race; 17% Hispanic) played either a competitive,…
Descriptors: Mathematics Achievement, Mathematics Education, Competition, Cooperative Learning
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Waters, Sara F.; Thompson, Ross A. – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2014
Children may be capable of understanding the value of emotion regulation strategies before they can enlist these strategies in emotion-evoking situations. This study was designed to extend understanding of children's judgment of the efficacy of alternative emotion regulation strategies. Children aged six and nine ("N" = 97) were…
Descriptors: Childhood Attitudes, Emotional Response, Psychological Patterns, Self Control
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Eivers, Areana R.; Brendgen, Mara; Borge, Anne I. H. – British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2010
Associations between young children's attributions of emotion at different points in a story, and with regard to their own prediction about the story's outcome, were investigated using two hypothetical scenarios of social and emotional challenge (social entry and negative event). First grade children (N = 250) showed an understanding that emotions…
Descriptors: Cues, Prediction, Young Children, Elementary School Students
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Jones, Elaine F.; Nelson-Le Gall, Sharon – Negro Educational Review, 2009
Seventy-two first-, third-, and fifth-grade Black children heard stories about Black and White students engaged in computer, physical education, social studies, and spelling tasks at school. Children were asked to evaluate the ability, effort, experience of task difficulty, and likelihood of task success for the story characters. Findings…
Descriptors: African American Children, Childhood Attitudes, Academic Achievement, Story Grammar