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Chrysi Rapanta; Fabrizio Macagno; Gard Jenset – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2025
It is broadly admitted that social contexts of reasoning may prompt children and adolescents to improve the quality of their reasoning. However, it is not clear how this quality may be assessed when it comes to arguments expressed within oral interactions in diverse settings (whole-class or small-group discussions) by students of different ages…
Descriptors: Dialogs (Language), Interpersonal Communication, Persuasive Discourse, Classroom Environment
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Zupan, Zorana; Blagrove, Elisabeth; Watson, Derrick G. – Developmental Psychology, 2018
Adults can ignore old and prioritize newly arriving visual stimuli, enabling optimal goal-directed search (visual marking; Watson & Humphreys, 1997). However, the ability to use time of appearance to enhance visual search is currently absent in work on attentional development in children. Experiment 1 examined children's (6-, 8-, and…
Descriptors: Attention, Time, Children, Adults
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Nolan, Jane; Scott, Jacqueline – International Journal of Aging and Human Development, 2009
This article examines experiences of chronological age. Using data from the British Household Panel Survey, we analyze both qualitatively and quantitatively verbatim responses from 8177 respondents aged 16 and over concerning the (dis)advantages of their age. Two main questions are tested: (1) Is the cultural narrative of age decline supported by…
Descriptors: Age, Gender Differences, Age Differences, Individual Development
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Lewis, Vicky – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 1990
Children who left a gap between the sky and the horizon in their drawings and paintings were significantly younger than those who left no gap. Omission of the gap was associated with the use of devices to represent three-dimensional space in two dimensions. (RH)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Children, Foreign Countries, Freehand Drawing
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Belfield, C. R.; Bullock, A. D.; Fielding, A. – Research in Higher Education, 1999
A survey of 10,000 United Kingdom college graduates explored satisfaction with the contribution that higher education had made to their general development. The study examined which students were likely to evaluate the contribution favorably, made inferences about institution type and contribution, and explored the relationship with student age.…
Descriptors: Age Differences, College Graduates, College Role, Foreign Countries