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Mika Paananen; Tuija Aro; Tuire Koponen; Helena Viholainen; Asko Tolvanen; Pilvi Peura; Mikko Aro – Educational Psychology, 2023
Self-regulatory efficacy (SRE) among elementary school children is of interest because pupils' self-regulation capacities and SRE influence in managing learning situations. This study investigated variations in the four sources of SRE and how these variations were related to SRE, reading skills and arithmetic skills. The participants were 1284…
Descriptors: Individual Differences, Mastery Learning, Elementary School Students, Metacognition
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McMullen, Jake; Hannula-Sormunen, Minna M.; Lehtinen, Erno – Cognition and Instruction, 2014
While preschool-aged children display some skills with quantitative relations, later learning of related fraction concepts is difficult for many students. We present two studies that investigate young children's tendency of Spontaneous Focusing On quantitative Relations (SFOR), which may help explain individual differences in the development of…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Individual Differences, Arithmetic, Case Studies
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Hannula, Minna M.; Lepola, Janne; Lehtinen, Erno – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2010
The aim of this 2 year longitudinal study was to explore whether children's individual differences in spontaneous focusing on numerosity (SFON) in kindergarten predict arithmetical and reading skills 2 years later in school. Moreover, we investigated whether the positive relationship between SFON and mathematical skills is explained by children's…
Descriptors: Arithmetic, Mathematics Skills, Reading Skills, Attention