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Multilingual Experience and Executive Functions among Children and Adolescents in a Multilingual City
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Oh, Julie H. J.; Bertone, Armando; Luk, Gigi – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2023
Children develop their language capacities and executive functions (EF) throughout their school-aged years. Research has shown that bilingual children show different patterns of EF performance when compared to their monolingual counterparts. However, it is less clear how variations in children's multilingual experiences associate with variation in…
Descriptors: Children, Adolescents, Multilingualism, Experience
When Am I Ever Going to Use This in the Real World? Cognitive Flexibility and Urban Adolescents' Negotiation of the Value of Mathematics
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Matthews, J. Sharif – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2018
Many adolescent learners have difficulty understanding the relevance of mathematics for their lives. This problem is particularly pernicious among Black and Latino adolescents who often face cultural stigma that can affect their perceived value of mathematics. The present study used concurrent nested mixed methods to explore this issue in 419…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Urban Youth, African American Students, Hispanic American Students
Teaching Thinking and Reasoning Skills: Problems and Solutions. AASA Critical Issues Report.
Pauker, Robert A. – 1987
This report presents the results of a study, based on 500 responses to a survey mailed to a structured sample of school administrators, on the problems and solutions of developing thinking and reasoning skills in the schools. Provided are analyses of the issue, examples of successful practices, and advice from school administrators and…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Administrators, Boards of Education, Cognitive Ability