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Ronfard, Samuel; Ünlütabak, Burcu; Bazhydai, Marina; Nicolopoulou, Ageliki; Harris, Paul L. – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2020
When presented with a claim that contradicts their intuitions, do children seize opportunities to empirically verify such claims or do they simply acquiesce to what they have been told? To answer this question, we conducted a replication of Ronfard et al. (conducted in the People's Republic of China) in two countries with distinct religious and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Children, Cognitive Development, Evaluative Thinking
Tuncer, Nuran – Online Submission, 2021
Executive function skills constitute an important basis for learning and adaptation in early childhood. The executive function skills can easily improve in children who uses good practices in preschool. These skills are especially important because they help children overcome all complex tasks required to manage themselves. The aim of the present…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Executive Function, Cognitive Ability, Refugees
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Türkmen, Mustafa – International Journal of Progressive Education, 2021
Animated films have an undeniable place in children's entertainment culture. The worldwide box office revenues indicate that these films reached many children in cinemas and were viewed on televisions by almost all children. The extent to which children can make sense of such content is still a question mark in minds. This study aims to…
Descriptors: Television Viewing, Childrens Television, Cartoons, Animation
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Çökük, Kayahan; Kozikoglu, Ishak – International Journal of Curriculum and Instruction, 2021
The aim of this study is to determine school readiness of primary school students in mixed-age classrooms. The sample of this study, using embedded mixed method design, consists of 909 first grade students in primary school and 30 primary school teachers determined by stratified purposeful sampling method. In this study, "Primary School…
Descriptors: School Readiness, Elementary School Students, Mixed Age Grouping, Grade 1
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Namli, Sevinç; Demir, Gönül Tekkursun – Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology - TOJET, 2020
The fact that the passion for digital gaming, which brings a sedentary lifestyle, replaces traditional games requiring exercise and physical education also has a negative impact on the health of children and adolescents. In this study, it was aimed to examine and evaluate high school students' attitudes towards digital gaming and sports by certain…
Descriptors: Athletics, Computer Games, Correlation, High School Students
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Bay, Yalçin; Bay, Dondu Neslihan – European Journal of Educational Sciences, 2020
This study aimed to determine the primary school students' readiness for school and analyze it according to some socio-demographic characteristics. Readiness can be defined as having the necessary precondition behaviors and reaching the desired maturity level for the child to be able to learn and develop. The level of readiness of the child is…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, School Readiness, Maturity (Individuals), Learning Readiness
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Sahin, Ali Ekber; Is Guzel, Cigdem – Educational Policy Analysis and Strategic Research, 2018
Setting the age for starting elementary students at 60 months old has been a hotly debated topic in Turkey since the Grand National Assembly passed an education reform bill as Law No. 6287, known to the public as the "4+4+4 regulation." At the outset of its implementation, students who started first grade in school year 2012-2013 had an…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, School Readiness, Educational Legislation, Educational Change
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Aslan, Mecit; Çikar, Ibrahim – International Journal of Contemporary Educational Research, 2019
The aim of this study is to determine the school readiness of the 60-65 months first grade primary school students. The study was designed in accordance with qualitative case study. The participants of the study was composed of 20 teachers and 15 parents in Van/Turkey provincial districts in the 2017-2018 academic year. Semi-structured interview…
Descriptors: School Readiness, Elementary School Students, Case Studies, School Districts
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Korucu, Irem; Selcuk, Bilge; Harma, Mehmet – Infant and Child Development, 2017
It is argued that self-regulation skill is necessary both for displaying constructive behaviour and for controlling negative social behaviour, and self-regulation might affect social behaviours by increasing the ability to understand others' minds. In this research, in order to examine different aspects of self-regulation and their similarities…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Self Control, Social Behavior, Executive Function
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Çakir, Hamide; Cengiz, Özge – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2016
Parent-child interactions and characteristics of mothers' child-directed language have been related to children's linguistic development. Studies on parent-child interactions in Turkey have generally focused on children. There have not been many researches on Turkish motherese. This study addresses this gap by exploring the properties of Turkish…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Parent Child Relationship, Mothers, Interaction
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Keceli Kaysili, Bahar; Acarlar, Funda – Educational Sciences: Theory and Practice, 2011
This study has examined the role of age in the false belief understanding in typically developing children and to determine if the different type of false belief tasks affects performance on false belief. The survey research design was used. False belief understanding was measured in 72 children between the ages of 3.00 to 5.11 year old. The…
Descriptors: Theory of Mind, Cognitive Ability, Age Differences, Preschool Children
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Pracana, Clara, Ed.; Wang, Michael, Ed. – Online Submission, 2018
This book contains a compilation of papers presented at the International Psychological Applications Conference and Trends (InPACT) 2018, organized by the World Institute for Advanced Research and Science (W.I.A.R.S.). Modern psychology offers a large range of scientific fields where it can be applied. The goal of understanding individuals and…
Descriptors: Educational Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology, Cognitive Psychology
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Mehmet, Ozcan – Hacettepe University Journal of Education, 2007
This study investigates how/whether the emergence and function of Turkish Tense Aspect Modality (TAM) markers that are used in narratives by children from 3 to 9 plus 13-year-olds show differences relative to the age of the narrator both quantitatively and qualitatively. The data were collected, by using Mayer's (1969) wordless picture book…
Descriptors: Picture Books, Monolingualism, Story Telling, Foreign Countries
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Kabadayi, Abdulkadir – Early Child Development and Care, 2006
Language, as is known, is acquired under certain conditions: rapid and sequential brain maturation and cognitive development, the need to exchange information and to control others' actions, and an exposure to appropriate speech input. This research aims at analyzing preschoolers' overgeneralizations of the object labeling process in different…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cognitive Development, Internet, Generalization
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Alp, I. Ercan – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 1994
Investigated development of working memory in the transitional period from infancy to preschool years. The age-related increase in scores on the Imitation Sorting Task (IST) appeared to be about one unit every six months. Results suggest that the IST has a good construct validity. (AA)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Developmental Stages
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