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Rinne, Luke F.; Ye, Ai; Jordan, Nancy C. – Developmental Psychology, 2017
The present study investigated the development of fraction comparison strategies through a longitudinal analysis of children's responses to a fraction comparison task in 4th through 6th grades (N = 394). Participants were asked to choose the larger value for 24 fraction pairs blocked by fraction type. Latent class analysis of performance over item…
Descriptors: Elementary School Mathematics, Elementary School Students, Intermediate Grades, Fractions
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Vouloumanos, Athena; Werker, Janet F. – Developmental Psychology, 2009
In everyday word learning words are only sometimes heard in the presence of their referent, making the acquisition of novel words a particularly challenging task. The current study investigated whether children (18-month-olds who are novice word learners) can track the statistics of co-occurrence between words and objects to learn novel mappings…
Descriptors: Infants, Language Acquisition, Vocabulary Development, Probability