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Hornstra, Lisette; van der Veen, Ineke; Peetsma, Thea; Volman, Monique – Learning and Individual Differences, 2013
To gain insight in developmental trajectories of motivation during upper primary school, the present study focused on how different aspects of students' motivation, i.e., task-orientation, self-efficacy, and school investment develop from grade three to six of primary school and how these developments differ for boys and girls, and students with…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5
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Jordan, Nancy C.; Glutting, Joseph; Ramineni, Chaitanya – Learning and Individual Differences, 2010
Children's symbolic number sense was examined at the beginning of first grade with a short screen of competencies related to counting, number knowledge, and arithmetic operations. Conventional mathematics achievement was then assessed at the end of both first and third grades. Controlling for age and cognitive abilities (i.e., language, spatial,…
Descriptors: Mathematics Achievement, Grade 1, Arithmetic, Mathematics Instruction
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Desoete, Annemie; Gregoire, Jacques – Learning and Individual Differences, 2006
A longitudinal study was conducted on 82 children to investigate, firstly the numerical competence of young children and the predictive value of (pre)-numerical tests in kindergarten, and, secondly, whether children's knowledge of the numerical system and representation of the number size is related to their computation and logical knowledge and…
Descriptors: Grade 1, Grade 3, Kindergarten, Young Children