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Dowdall, Nicholas; Melendez-Torres, G. J.; Murray, Lynne; Gardner, Frances; Hartford, Leila; Cooper, Peter J. – Child Development, 2020
Interventions that train parents to share picture books with children are seen as a strategy for supporting child language development. We conducted meta-analyses using robust variance estimation modeling on results from 19 RCTs (N[subscript total] = 2,594; M[subscript child age] = 1-6 years). Overall, book-sharing interventions had a small sized…
Descriptors: Intervention, Picture Books, Child Language, Language Acquisition
Miller, David I.; Nolla, Kyle M.; Eagly, Alice H.; Uttal, David H. – Child Development, 2018
This meta-analysis, spanning 5 decades of Draw-A-Scientist studies, examined U.S. children's gender-science stereotypes linking science with men. These stereotypes should have weakened over time because women's representation in science has risen substantially in the United States, and mass media increasingly depict female scientists. Based on 78…
Descriptors: Meta Analysis, Sex Stereotypes, Gender Differences, Scientists
Slaughter, Virginia; Imuta, Kana; Peterson, Candida C.; Henry, Julie D. – Child Development, 2015
It has been argued that children who possess an advanced theory of mind (ToM) are viewed positively by their peers, but the empirical findings are mixed. This meta-analysis of 20 studies including 2,096 children (aged from 2 years, 8 months to 10 years) revealed a significant overall association (r = 0.19) indicating that children with higher ToM…
Descriptors: Child Development, Theory of Mind, Meta Analysis, Young Children
Killen, Melanie; Mulvey, Kelly Lynn; Hitti, Aline – Child Development, 2013
"Interpersonal" rejection and "intergroup" exclusion in childhood reflect different, but complementary, aspects of child development. Interpersonal rejection focuses on individual differences in personality traits, such as wariness and being fearful, to explain bully-victim relationships. In contrast, intergroup exclusion focuses on how in-group…
Descriptors: Rejection (Psychology), Social Isolation, Child Development, Interpersonal Relationship
McKown, Clark – Child Development, 2013
In the United States, racial-ethnic differences on tests of school readiness and academic achievement continue. A complete understanding of the origins of racial-ethnic achievement gaps is still lacking. This article describes social equity theory (SET), which proposes that racial-ethnic achievement gaps originate from two kinds of social process,…
Descriptors: Racial Differences, School Readiness, Academic Achievement, Achievement Gap

Woolley, Jacqueline D. – Child Development, 1997
Reviews research on children's and adults' beliefs about fantasy and their tendency to engage in "magical thinking." Suggests that children are not fundamentally different from adults in their ability to distinguish fantasy from reality. Both entertain fantastical beliefs and engage in magical thinking. Offers suggestions regarding age…
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Children, Cognitive Development

Winer, Gerald A. – Child Development, 1982
Reviews four major ways of measuring children's fearful behavior (through behavioral rating scales, self-report measures, projective techniques, and physiological measures). Makes the point that disruptive behaviors in dental settings are seen in relatively few children, with marked diminutions in anxiety occurring in the preschool years. (RH)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Anxiety, Children, Correlation

Sedlak, Andrea J.; Kurtz, Susan T. – Child Development, 1981
Examines cues which guide the discovery of simple cause-effect relations, beginning with the properties (suggested by Hume) of temporal precedence, covariation and contiguity; explores variables which can influence simple causal judgments; and discusses developmental evidence regarding inference principles associated with causal schemata.…
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Attribution Theory, Children

Pellegrini, A. D.; Smith, Peter K. – Child Development, 1998
Considers the nature and developmental functions of physical activity play. Distinguishes three kinds of physical activity play with consecutive age peaks: rhythmic stereotypies, exercise play, and rough-and-tumble play. Considers gender differences and function in terms of immediate and deferred consequences in physical, cognitive, and social…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Child Development, Cognitive Development, Definitions

Goswami, Usha – Child Development, 1991
Children's analogical reasoning has traditionally been measured by classical four-term analogy tasks or problem-solving tasks. Current theories of analogical development and the evidence on which they are based are reviewed. It is concluded that structural views of analogical development are wrong, and knowledge-based accounts of what develops are…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Age Differences, Analogy, Children

Beckman, Mary E.; Edwards, Jan – Child Development, 2000
Presents evidence from studies on adults' language processing and children's language acquisition that the lexicon is at the core of grammatical generalizations at several levels of representation. Proposes that phonological acquisition might provide the bootstrapping into grammatical generalization in general. Concludes that age-appropriate…
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Child Development, Children

Stipek, Deborah; Mac Iver, Douglas – Child Development, 1989
Analyzes what is known about how children's judgments of their intellectual competence and their definition and criteria for evaluating competence change with age and experience in achievement contexts. (PCB)
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Academic Achievement, Age Differences, Child Development

Miller, Scott A. – Child Development, 1995
Reviews research on the determinants and the effects of parents' attributions. The evidence suggests that parents do form attributions for their children's behavior; these attributions vary in predictable ways across judges (mothers versus fathers), targets (age or sex of child), and behavior outcomes (positive or negative); and attributions…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Age Differences, Antisocial Behavior, Attribution Theory

Pressley, Michael – Child Development, 1982
The research literature on children's production of elaborations in associative learning tasks is reviewed, especially with respect to the questions of when children can produce elaborations under instruction, when they transfer elaborative strategy usage from one situation to another, and when they produce elaborative strategies spontaneously.…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Age Differences, Associative Learning, Cognitive Development

Dunn, Judy – Child Development, 1983
Reviews and considers the developmental implications of recent evidence on the nature of sibling interaction from observational studies of preschool children. Argues that, in contrast to complementary interaction, sibling influence is most plausibly associated with reciprocal interaction and with sociocognitive development. (Author/RH)
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Age Differences, Child Caregivers, Cognitive Ability