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Lee, Joohi; Joswick, Candace; Pole, Kathryn – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2023
This is a conceptual paper based on existing literature aiming to provide practical information on designing and implementing activities to promote children's computational thinking. Computational thinking is a relatively new term in early childhood education that refers to a specific problem-solving thinking process involving various logical and…
Descriptors: Play, Class Activities, Computation, Thinking Skills
Curtis, Deb; Jaboneta, Nadia – Redleaf Press, 2019
Teachers often see repetitive behaviors in toddler and preschool classrooms, such as building and knocking down block towers or dumping out toys. When children do these actions over and over it can be frustrating to teachers and parents, but viewing these actions through the lens of schema theory helps us understand what's really going on in…
Descriptors: Child Behavior, Repetition, Schemata (Cognition), Learning Processes
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Weisgram, Erica S. – American Journal of Play, 2019
The author discusses gender differences in children's play and its relation to the programs of "Sesame Street," which for fifty years has sought to enhance children's physical, cognitive, and social development through playful learning. Gender differences in children's play, she asserts, are vast, and she notes that, consequently, boys…
Descriptors: Sex Stereotypes, Toys, Gender Differences, Play
Bergen, Doris; Lee, Lena; DiCarlo, Cynthia; Burnett, Gail – Teachers College Press, 2020
This practical resource explains brain development from prenatal to age 8 with suggestions for activities educators and caregivers can use to foster children's cognitive growth. The authors begin with the basics of brain development, and the issues that affect it, and then provide information specific to infant, toddler, preschool, and…
Descriptors: Brain, Child Development, Infants, Toddlers
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Jarvis, Pam – FORUM: for promoting 3-19 comprehensive education, 2017
Nearly a century of psychological research and recent advances in neuropsychology suggest that there is a "learning to learn" stage in early childhood, during which children need to create the foundations of human cognition, which relies upon the ability to logically categorise incoming information. Mid-twentieth-century psychologists…
Descriptors: Young Children, Early Childhood Education, Child Development, Play
Damron, Neil – Institute for Research on Poverty, 2015
"Brain Drain: A Child's Brain on Poverty," released in March 2015 and prepared by intern Neil Damron, explores the brain's basic anatomy and recent research findings suggesting that poverty affects the brain development of infants and young children and the potential lifelong effects of the changes. The sheet draws from a variety of…
Descriptors: Brain, Poverty, Anatomy, Infants
D'Acierno, Maria Rosaria – Online Submission, 2018
This study, based on the observation of children (3-5 year olds) following a program of specific physical exercises guided by music, wants to evaluate the effect of movement on body, mind and cognition. It will promote activities and experience in order to 1) build up a healthy body and a healthy mind; 2) prevent obesity as well as type 2…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Physical Health, Cognitive Development, Young Children
Chen, Jie-Qi; Hynes-Berry, Mary; Abel, Barbara; Sims, Colleen; Ginet, Lisa – ZERO TO THREE, 2017
In this article, the authors examine the mathematical thinking and experiences that are unique to infants, toddlers, and 2-year-olds. They identify the four precursor mathematical concepts of attribute, comparison, pattern, and change and explore them in terms of why it is so important to attend to them, what makes them inherently mathematical and…
Descriptors: Mathematics Skills, Infants, Toddlers, Young Children
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Fleer, Marilyn – International Research in Early Childhood Education, 2016
The concept of "perezhivanie" has received increasing attention in recent years. However, a clear understanding of this term has not yet been established. Mostly what is highlighted is the need for more informed theoretical discussion. In this paper, discussions centre on what "perezhivanie" means for research in early…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Emotional Development, Cognitive Development, Art
Sobel, Kiley – Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop, 2019
What do we know about immersive media--virtual, augmented, mixed, and cross realities (VR, AR, MR, and XR)--and young children? So far, designers, developers, and media producers have been focusing on creating hardware, software, and content for and conducting studies with adolescents and adults--but children find these technologies incredibly…
Descriptors: Computer Simulation, Simulated Environment, Young Children, Child Development
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Fisher, Carol – Parenting for High Potential, 2016
Schools seem firmly rooted in the emphasis on computational mastery, and seldom seem to have time to develop other areas of mathematical thinking, such as real-world problem solving and the application of mathematical concepts. All too often, children seem to do well in math in the early grades because they easily memorize the facts and the…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Cognitive Development, Mathematical Concepts, Child Development
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Rasheed, Muneera A.; Pham, Sofia; Memon, Uzma; Siyal, Saima; Obradovic, Jelena; Yousafzai, Aisha K. – International Journal of School & Educational Psychology, 2018
Many global settings lack indigenous measures of child development, making the adaptation of available instruments necessary. The aim of this study was to reliably adapt the core subtests of the Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence-III (WPPSI-III) to assess cognitive abilities in young children in rural Pakistan. A systematic…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cognitive Development, Young Children, Intelligence Tests
Early Childhood Technical Assistance Center, 2020
This list of tools was compiled to assist states and programs with identifying assessments that can be administered when the assessor cannot be in the room with the child. This is a list of screening tools that can be completed remotely when the practitioner cannot be in the room with the child. Screening tools assess the possibility of a…
Descriptors: Screening Tests, Young Children, Delivery Systems, Child Development
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Nation, Kate – Australian Journal of Learning Difficulties, 2019
Reading comprehension is a complex task which depends on a range of cognitive and linguistic processes. According to the Simple View of Reading, this complexity can be captured as the product of two sets of skills: decoding and linguistic comprehension. The Simple View explains variance in reading comprehension and provides a good framework to…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, Beginning Reading, Decoding (Reading), Preschool Children
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Cockcroft, Kate – South African Journal of Childhood Education, 2015
Working memory is the mental ability to temporarily store and manipulate information. Its functioning is distinct from the vast storage capacity of long-term memory and is crucial for optimal learning and development. There is considerable research on several theoretical aspects of working memory. Far less research has explored the application of…
Descriptors: Short Term Memory, Early Childhood Education, Child Development, Cognitive Measurement
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