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Breitwieser, Jasmin; Brod, Garvin – Child Development, 2021
This study examined age-related differences in the effectiveness of two generative learning strategies (GLSs). Twenty-five children aged 9-11 and 25 university students aged 17-29 performed a facts learning task in which they had to generate either a prediction or an example before seeing the correct result. We found a significant Age × Learning…
Descriptors: Learning Strategies, Preadolescents, Young Adults, College Students
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Wang, Ming-Te; Binning, Kevin R.; Del Toro, Juan; Qin, Xu; Zepeda, Cristina D. – Child Development, 2021
Maintaining learning engagement throughout adolescence is critical for long-term academic success. This research sought to understand the role of metacognition and motivation in predicting adolescents' engagement in math learning over time. In two longitudinal studies with 2,325 and 207 adolescents (ages 11-15), metacognitive skills, interest, and…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Metacognition, Longitudinal Studies, Self Control
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Creel, Sarah C. – Child Development, 2012
A crucial part of language development is learning how various social and contextual language-external factors constrain an utterance's meaning. This learning process is poorly understood. Five experiments addressed one hundred thirty-one 3- to 5-year-old children's use of one such socially relevant information source: talker characteristics.…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Information Sources, Language Acquisition, Reading Comprehension
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Caruso, John L.; Resnick, Lauren B. – Child Development, 1972
The present study is based on a form of task analysis that explicates in detail the hypothesized solution behavior of skilled performers of the task. (Authors)
Descriptors: Classification, Cognitive Development, Data Analysis, Kindergarten Children