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Tomasik, Martin J.; Napolitano, Christopher M.; Moser, Urs – Child Development, 2019
Thriving is a developmental process that is shaped by previous and current interactions within developmental contexts. We hypothesized that academic performance in the school context will positively predict thriving in young adulthood. Data of N = 2,043 students from Zurich were assessed with standardized tests in Grades 1, 3, 6, and 9. Results…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Compulsory Education, Young Adults, Individual Development
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Thompson, Clarissa A.; Opfer, John E. – Child Development, 2010
How does understanding the decimal system change with age and experience? Second, third, sixth graders, and adults (Experiment 1: N = 96, mean ages = 7.9, 9.23, 12.06, and 19.96 years, respectively) made number line estimates across 3 scales (0-1,000, 0-10,000, and 0-100,000). Generation of linear estimates increased with age but decreased with…
Descriptors: Experimental Groups, Grade 6, Grade 2, Age Differences
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Amsterlaw, Jennifer – Child Development, 2006
Two studies investigated children's metacognition about everyday reasoning, assessing how they distinguish reasoning from nonreasoning and "good" reasoning from "bad." In Study 1, 80 1st graders (6-7 years), 3rd graders (8-9 years), 5th graders (10-11 years), and adults (18+ years) evaluated scenarios where people (a) used reasoning, (b) solved…
Descriptors: Grade 1, Grade 5, Grade 3, Metacognition