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Dale Walker; Jay Buzhardt; Fan Jia; Alana Schnitz; Dwight W. Irvin; Charles R. Greenwood – Grantee Submission, 2022
Engaging, focusing, and persisting in the completion of tasks are among the skills needed for school success. Tracking whether a child is learning cognitive problem-solving skills is essential in knowing if they are acquiring skills important for development and school readiness; and if not, how they are responding to early intervention. Use of…
Descriptors: Problem Solving, Infants, Toddlers, School Readiness
Cooper, Phil – Mathematics Teaching, 2011
This article sets out how the author believes mathematics might be taught in creative ways. It is about the author's developing thoughts on how he teaches mathematics, how his class responds to his teaching, and how he adjusts his teaching through assessment of children's learning. Through observations and assessment of learning following his…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Mathematics Instruction, Creativity, Teaching Methods
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Corriveau, Kathleen H.; Harris, Paul L. – Developmental Psychology, 2010
Three- and 4-year-old children were asked to judge which of a set of 3 lines was the longest, both independently and in the face of an inaccurate consensus among adult informants. Children were invariably accurate when making independent judgments but sometimes deferred to the inaccurate consensus. Nevertheless, the deference displayed by both age…
Descriptors: Asian Americans, North Americans, Children, Preschool Children
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Kannass, Kathleen N.; Colombo, John – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2007
We investigated the effects of different amounts of distraction on preschoolers' task performance and attention. Children 3.5 and 4 years of age completed problem-solving tasks in one of three conditions: no distraction, intermittent (periodic) distraction, or continuous distraction. The results revealed differential effects of the distractors at…
Descriptors: Age, Preschool Children, Task Analysis, Attention