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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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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
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Metz, Kathleen E. – Elementary School Journal, 2008
The American Association for the Advancement of Science and the National Academy of Science have emphasized the need to design curriculum such that students do not simply learn about science, but also do science. Although obviously the knowledge-building practices among scientists and children in elementary school science classrooms will always be…
Descriptors: Elementary School Science, Instructional Design, Grade 1, Science Instruction