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Quinn, Jamie M.; Wagner, Richard K.; Petscher, Yaacov; Lopez, Danielle – Child Development, 2015
The present study followed a sample of first-grade (N = 316, M[subscript age] = 7.05 at first test) through fourth-grade students to evaluate dynamic developmental relations between vocabulary knowledge and reading comprehension. Using latent change score modeling, competing models were fit to the repeated measurements of vocabulary knowledge and…
Descriptors: Child Development, Vocabulary Development, Reading Comprehension, Elementary School Students
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Webb, Roger A.; And Others – Child Development, 1974
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Development, Comprehension, Developmental Psychology
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Kuhn, Deanna – Child Development, 2000
Suggests that the study of memory needs to be situated within broader conceptual and research contexts. Examines how four contexts accommodate memory phenomena: (1) knowledge; (2) comprehension; (3) context/function; and (4) strategy. Suggests that memories are best examined as knowledge structures resulting from efforts to understand, and that…
Descriptors: Child Development, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Structures, Comprehension