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Weed, Keri; Keogh, Deborah; Borkowski, John G.; Whitman, Thomas; Noria, Christine W. – Learning and Individual Differences, 2011
A person-centered approach was used to explore the mediating role of self-regulation between learner typology at age 8 and academic achievement at age 14 while controlling for domain-specific achievement in a longitudinal sample of 113 children born to adolescent mothers. Children were classified into one of 5 learner typologies at age 8 based on…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Classification, At Risk Persons, Metacognition
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O'Sullivan, Julia T. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1996
Examined differences in first-, third-, and fifth-graders' metamemory about influences of conceptual relations on free recall of a list of words from two categories and an unrelated list. Found that older children attributed superior recall of related material to categorical relations, reported categorical organization strategies, and demonstrated…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Children, Classification, Cognitive Processes
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Paris, Scott G.; And Others – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1982
Seven- and eight-year-old children were given two memory trials on each of five consecutive days. Results indicate that children who were given only demonstrations and directions to use particular mnemonic strategies did not perform as well as children who were provided explanations and feedback regarding the mnemonic value of these actions. (MP)
Descriptors: Children, Classification, Cognitive Development, Metacognition
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Cook, Gregory L.; Odom, Richard D. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1992
In four experiments, younger children and adults showed greater perceptual sensitivity and more extensive conceptual labeling for difference relations than for identity relations. Younger and older children demonstrated consistent dimensional selectivity in tasks involving free classification and the estimation of differences. (Author/BG)
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Children, Classification
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Alexander, Joyce M.; Manion, Victoria – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1997
Examined the benefits of a peer collaborative activity on cognitive strategy use and effectiveness and on metacognitive understanding of strategy use. Found that interaction with children working at a higher level of metacognitive knowledge increased strategy use and induced higher levels of metacognitive thinking. Use of sorting strategy and…
Descriptors: Attribution Theory, Children, Classification, Comparative Analysis
Jewell, Paul – 1996
This paper presents a reasoning taxonomy to explain reasoning objectives, strategies, and habits available to the advanced thinker. It begins by explaining the first part of the taxonomy, objectives of reasoning, including the need for skilled thinkers to reason with a purpose and to understand how the world works so that they can engage with it.…
Descriptors: Adults, Children, Classification, Cognitive Processes