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Deng, Tao; Hu, Bi Ying; Wang, X. Christine; Li, Yuanhua; Jiang, Chunlian; Su, Yijie; LoCasale-Crouch, Jennifer – Early Education and Development, 2023
Research Findings: This study investigated teachers' Concept development (CD) strategy use in whole-group math teaching and its associations with children's higher-order thinking processes in 25 Chinese preschool math lessons. We utilized the CD dimension within the Classroom Assessment Scoring System (CLASS) to guide our exploration. CD…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Classroom Environment, Preschool Teachers, Concept Formation
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von Kotzebue, Lena; Müller, Laura; Haslbeck, Heidi; Neuhaus, Birgit J.; Lankes, Eva-Maria – International Journal of Research in Education and Science, 2020
Cognitive activation is one of the central quality characteristics of teaching. Studies which analyzed cognitive activation in science instruction and its influence on the achievement and the interest of students, took most of the times place in higher grades. Since scientific thinking can be taught at a very early stage and, in particular,…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Elementary Schools, Kindergarten, Preschool Teachers
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Seiver, Elizabeth; Gopnik, Alison; Goodman, Noah D. – Child Development, 2013
Children rely on both evidence and prior knowledge to make physical causal inferences; this study explores whether they make attributions about others' behavior in the same manner. A total of one hundred and fifty-nine 4- and 6-year-olds saw 2 dolls interacting with 2 activities, and explained the dolls' actions. In the person condition, each doll…
Descriptors: Inferences, Prior Learning, Attribution Theory, Toys