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Kocabas, Sezai; Zhu, Yi; Liang, Yiheng; Bofferding, Laura – North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2022
Block building activities help develop students' spatial reasoning, but few studies focus on the development of block building skills beyond preschool. We worked with four kindergarten, four first grade, and four second grade students to learn more about their Lego block building. We compared students' accuracy, building strategies, and spatial…
Descriptors: Toys, Learning Activities, Accuracy, Grade 2
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Murray, Desiree W.; Kuhn, Laura J.; Willoughby, Michael T.; LaForett, Doré R.; Cavanaugh, Alyson M. – School Mental Health, 2022
Several mental health programs have been developed in clinics and transported into schools, which has great potential for increasing access to intervention for students who may not be otherwise served. However, such programs may lack consideration of the complexity and constraints of schools, including the diversity of student needs and…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Mental Health Programs, Behavior Problems, Self Control
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Schirmbeck, Katharina; Rao, Nirmala; Wang, Rhoda; Richards, Ben; Chan, Stephanie W. Y.; Maehler, Claudia – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2021
Previous research findings indicate that young children from East Asia outperform their counterparts from Europe and North America on executive function (EF) tasks. However, very few cross-national studies have focused on EF development during middle childhood. The current study assessed the EF performance of 170 children in grades 2 and 4 from…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Executive Function, Foreign Countries, Naming
Murray, Desiree W.; Kuhn, Laura J.; Willoughby, Michael T.; Dore', LaForett R.; Cavanaugh, Alyson M. – Grantee Submission, 2021
Several mental health programs have been developed in clinics and transported into schools, which has great potential for increasing access to intervention for students who may not be otherwise served. However, such programs may lack consideration of the complexity and constraints of schools, including the diversity of student needs and…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Mental Health Programs, Behavior Problems, Self Control
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Van der Ven, Sanne H. G.; Kroesbergen, Evelyn H.; Boom, Jan; Leseman, Paul P. M. – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2012
Background: The relationship between executive functions and mathematical skills has been studied extensively, but results are inconclusive, and how this relationship evolves longitudinally is largely unknown. Aim: The aim was to investigate the factor structure of executive functions in inhibition, shifting, and updating; the longitudinal…
Descriptors: Animals, Primary Education, Factor Structure, Inhibition
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Kovalcik, Beth; Certo, Janine L. – Reading Teacher, 2007
A six-week long intervention that introduced second graders to poetry writing is described in this article, ending in a classroom "poetry cafe" culminating event. This article details the established classroom "writing workshop" structure and environment and the perceptions and observations of how students responded to the instruction. Four poetry…
Descriptors: Grade 2, Literary Devices, Intervention, Writing Workshops