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Conceptual Understanding of Complexity, Symmetry, and Object Coherence in Young Children
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Shuwairi, Sarah M.; Tran, Annie; Belardo, John; Murphy, Gregory L. – Infant and Child Development, 2020
Prior work showed that infants look longer at impossible figures than possible ones, although it is unclear whether they or older children understand "impossibility." We employed a series of matching and sorting tasks with pictures and objects to evaluate children's knowledge of this dimension. In Experiment 1, nearly all children…
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Spatial Ability, Preschool Children, Error Patterns
Differential Effect of Pre and Post Cognitive Skills Training Program: A Study on Healthy Young Children
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Chaturvedi, Ramesh Kumar; Verma, Vishal; Mishra, Kushendra – Smart Learning Environments, 2022
The objective of this research paper is to check the difference between pre and post-session of the Brighter Minds based Cognitive Skill Training. The exploratory and descriptive research design is used in this study. In this investigation, the nine measurement variables are selected for the study such as memory, confidence, concentration,…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Memory, Self Esteem, Intuition
Unpacking the Black-Box of Students' Visual Attention in Mathematics and English Classrooms: Empirical Evidence Using Mini-Video Recording Gadgets
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Farsani, Danyal; Radmehr, Farzad; Alizadeh, Mohadaseh; Zakariya, Yusuf Feyisara – Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2021
With the technological improvements of innovative portable recording gadgets, augmented researchers' interest in exploring students' visual attention in their natural and normal occurring classrooms. The purpose of this study was to gauge students' visual attention in their Mathematics and English classrooms. This article reports on a study…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
Mind Wandering, Together with Test Anxiety and Self-Efficacy, Predicts Student's Academic Self-Concept but Not Reading Comprehension Skills
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Desideri, Lorenzo; Ottaviani, Cristina; Cecchetto, Carla; Bonifacci, Paola – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2019
Background: Mind wandering (MW) has commonly been linked to bad scholastic performance; however, such association has rarely been investigated in the classroom. Moreover, in examining such association, motivational variables have been largely ignored. Aim: We aimed at examining the associations between the dispositional tendency to engage in MW…
Descriptors: Test Anxiety, Self Efficacy, Self Concept, Academic Ability
Gaze Aversion during Children's Transient Knowledge and Learning
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Doherty-Sneddon, Gwyneth; Phelps, Fiona G.; Calderwood, Lesley – Cognition and Instruction, 2009
Looking away from an interlocutor's face during demanding cognitive activity can help adults and children answer challenging mental arithmetic and verbal-reasoning questions (Glenberg, Schroeder, & Robertson, 1998; Phelps, Doherty-Sneddon, & Warnock, 2006). While such "gaze aversion" (GA) is used far less by 5-year-old school children, its use…
Descriptors: Primary Education, Mental Computation, Cognitive Processes, Arithmetic
Motor Activity and the Education of Retardates.
Cratty, Bryant J. – 1969
Presented are chapters concerned with the relationship of motor activity to education. The topics discussed are research, movement and performance in infants and children, principles of teaching motor skills; arousal level and attention; scribbling, drawing, writing, strength, flexibility, endurance, and control of large muscles; music and rhythm;…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Arousal Patterns, Attention Control, Body Image