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Wirth, Astrid; Stadler, Matthias; Annac, Efsun; Niklas, Frank – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2022
The Home Learning Environment (HLE) focuses on everyday learning habits in families to support children's competency development. In this study, we used multitrait-multimethod (MTMM) analyses to compare two theoretical dimensions and three methods for assessing the HLE and their associations with linguistic and mathematical competencies of…
Descriptors: Family Environment, Comparative Analysis, Child Development, Mathematics Skills
Howe, Nina; Cheyne, Allan – 1990
An assessment of recent trends in developmental research examined all articles published in the periodical "Child Development" from 1967-1983. Of the articles that were included in the "Child Development Abstracts and Bibliography" in the same period, 200 articles from each year of the period were randomly selected for…
Descriptors: Child Development, Cognitive Development, Content Analysis, Editors
Van Kleeck, Anne; Hopper, Robert – 1980
The purpose of this analytical essay is to lay out some conceptual boundaries and distinctions about how children develop and use metacommunication (messages whose primary function is to make reference to or transform themselves or other messages). Two types of metacommunication are discussed: metalinguistic messages, in which there is a temporary…
Descriptors: Child Development, Communication Research, Communication Skills, Language Processing
Kierstead, Janet – 1980
Whereas Maria Montessori believes that humans are born with a divine animating spirit, John Dewey believes that no such spirit exists, and that it is society which shapes the child. Their definitions of education reflect this difference. For Montessori, education is a natural process that develops spontaneously in the human being, and formal…
Descriptors: Child Development, Comparative Analysis, Educational Environment, Educational Philosophy
Seybert, Jeffrey A.; And Others – 1978
The effects of different schedules of noncontingent reward on subsequent learning in children were investigated. In the first phase of the experiment subjects performed a block-design matching task and received one of three schedules of noncontingent reward, i.e., continuous reward (Group CRF), random reward on 50% of the trials (Group 50R), or no…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Child Development, Children, Contingency Management
Kienapple, Kim; Lange, Garrett – 1979
Written for professionals who design and teach in preschool programs this paper reviews research on memory abilities of young children and examines the relationship between knowledge and memory among preschool children. Preliminary research of the hypothesis that elementary school environments press children to develop memory strategies is…
Descriptors: Child Development, Early Childhood Education, Educational Experience, Learning Processes
Omanson, Richard C., And Others – 1978
The relationship between retention of story propositions and inferences was studied in two experiments on groups of children who averaged five and eight years in age. In the first experiment, the motives and theme of protagonists were varied and found to affect the number and kind of inferences made by eight-year-olds. The increase in the number…
Descriptors: Child Development, Cognitive Processes, Comprehension, Educational Research
Dance, Frank E. X. – 1978
One of many aspects of the linguistic centrality of the spoken word is the "acoustic trigger" to conceptualization, the most significant primal trigger in human beings, which when activated results in contrast and comparison leading to symbolic conceptualization. The oral/aural mode, or vocal production and acoustic perception, is developmentally…
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Child Development, Child Language, Cognitive Processes

Mecham, Merlin J. – 1973
Fifty-two institutionalized mentally handicapped children (average CA of 12 years) were engaged in a study attempting to determine whether there are ordinal dependencies in various scales of developmental milestones or supra-structural behaviors in language, and if so, the degree to which hierarchical levels within given categories serve as…
Descriptors: Child Development, Exceptional Child Research, Institutionalized Persons, Language Acquisition
Orsini-Romano, Clara; Pascale, Isabel D. – 1978
Curriculum planning for the future must recognize and accept certain premises: forces at work in society greatly influence the nature and direction of the curriculum; students in our society possess varied backgrounds, capabilities, interests, and aptitudes that must be met; common curriculum designs have many strengths; a curriculum to foster…
Descriptors: Child Development, Creative Thinking, Curriculum Development, Daily Living Skills
Rheingold, Harriet L. – 1973
During an experiment on infant behavior, it was observed that young children shared toys with their mothers; therefore, a series of research studies was designed to investigate this phenomenon. The general purposes of the research were: (1) to define sharing more precisely and develop objective measures of frequency and duration for it, (2) to…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Behavior Development, Behavioral Science Research, Child Development
Whitehurst, Keturah E. – 1970
This brief overview of some aspects of human development aims to enable paraprofessionals (teachers' aides) to work with teachers and children with greater understanding and effectiveness. Aspects discussed include heredity, IQ scores and learning ability assessment, principles of development, and principles of learning. (ED)
Descriptors: Child Development, Early Childhood Education, Heredity, Human Development
Slegers, Brenda – 1997
New research on brain development has profound implications in the areas of child development and education. This review of the research describes how the brain develops to shape children's growing intelligence, addressing such questions as: (1) What are the brain's functions? (2) What are the critical or sensitive periods in brain development?…
Descriptors: Brain, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Child Development, Cognitive Development
Mukerji, Rose – 1977
A brief overview is presented of the effect of television viewing on the cognitive and affective learning processes of young learners and on the growth of the social interaction skills of this same viewing audience. The main conclusions of the report are that (1) the effects of television viewing are complex and are both positive and negative; (2)…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Child Development, Cognitive Development, Early Childhood Education
Baghban, Marcia – 1984
In order to document the self-directed, spontaneous growth in literary output of a six-year-old child, her writings during a one month period were collected and compiled. It was discovered that the child used writing to organize knowledge about the environment and the operations of print, to maintain personal relations, to establish impersonal or…
Descriptors: Child Development, Child Language, Childhood Interests, Integrated Activities
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