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Dagmar Mercedes Heeg; Lucy Avraamidou – Education and Information Technologies, 2025
AI has become integral to daily life. Teaching, learning, and research are no exception. However, most studies on education have approached AI as a technology and focused mostly on learning outcomes rather than understanding student engagement and sense-making of AI as a socio-cultural tool with impact on their daily lives. To address this gap in…
Descriptors: Young Children, Childrens Attitudes, Artificial Intelligence, Knowledge Level
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Pollarolo, Enrico; Størksen, Ingunn; Skarstein, Tuula H.; Kucirkova, Natalia – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2023
The significance of learning to think critically from a young age is well documented. Early childhood educators play an essential role in children's critical skills development. Therefore, it is crucial to understand their perceptions of this concept. This qualitative study explored Norwegian early childhood educators' perceptions of critical…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Teachers, Young Children, Thinking Skills
Pino Muñoz, Mónica M.; Arán Filipetti, Vanessa – Journal of Educational Psychology - Propositos y Representaciones, 2019
Intelligence is a construct of notable impact in our sociocultural context, related to a wide range of conceptual and operational definitions which originate positions that highlights cognitive and abstract elements and emotional and social skills, as well was perspectives that are focused on processes underlying the intelligent performance, such…
Descriptors: Childrens Attitudes, Knowledge Level, Intelligence, Executive Function
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Torkar, Gregor; Debevec, Vanja; Johnson, Bruce; Manoli, Constantinos C. – Center for Educational Policy Studies Journal, 2021
The goal of the present research was to assess the environmental worldviews and concerns of students from the fourth to the seventh grade in Slovenia. The New Ecological Paradigm Scale for Children was translated and validated for use with Slovenian primary school students (N = 310). The students were also asked about their environmental concerns…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Childrens Attitudes, Knowledge Level, World Views
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Collins, Courtney; Corkery, Ilse; McKeown, Sean; McSweeney, Lynda; Flannery, Kevin; Kennedy, Declan; O'Riordan, Ruth – Environmental Education Research, 2020
There is increasing evidence that zoos and aquariums do, as intended, educate their visitors. However, even though most zoos offer a wide array of educational experiences, few studies have considered if the duration of an educational experience affects learning or whether learning lasts beyond the immediate visit. The current study used…
Descriptors: Zoology, Recreational Facilities, Knowledge Level, Childrens Attitudes
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Donovan, Andrea Marquardt; Alibali, Martha W. – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2021
This research examined whether children's construals of mathematical manipulatives -- as toys or as tools for doing mathematics -- influenced their learning from a lesson with the manipulatives. Children (grades 2 and 3) were presented with a set of buckets and beanbags, and they were either given no information about the manipulatives (control)…
Descriptors: Manipulative Materials, Toys, Play, Mathematics Instruction
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Brune, Sara; Stevenson, Kathryn T.; Knollenberg, Whitney; Barbieri, Carla – Journal of Agricultural Education, 2020
While increasing agricultural literacy (AL) has been the focus of numerous educational programs, few AL scales have been developed specifically for children. AL programming struggles to rigorously evaluate their programs, particularly when little time is available for assessments in informal contexts. The lack of evaluation tools that allow to…
Descriptors: Test Construction, Test Validity, Measures (Individuals), Preadolescents