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Eun, Barohny; Knotek, Steven E. – Research in Education, 2022
A Vygotskian approach to assessment is proposed by invoking the distinction between the development of lower and higher psychological functions. Higher psychological functions are specifically human and develop with the use of cultural tools via mediation. Accordingly, a distinction is made between tests that are based on association, which have…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Sociocultural Patterns, Psychological Patterns, Teaching Methods
Aceves, Lorena; Crowley, Daniel Max; Rincon, Brenda; Bravo, Diamond Y. – Society for Research in Child Development, 2022
The main goal of this social policy report is to propose a holistic approach for promoting developmental success among Latinx children and youth. This report highlights the need to 1) redefine success and 2) account for intersectional inequalities. First, the current demographic landscape of Latinx students is presented to showcase the variability…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Educational Change, Hispanic American Students, Child Development
Carl, Iris M., Ed. – 1995
This book offers a broad view for a varied audience of what the vision expressed in all three National Council of Teachers of Mathematics' Standards documents will look like when aligned with practice and outlines ways in which desired changes can be realized. Six sections and 21 chapters in the book are: Section I--History: (1) "Paths to the…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education, Mathematics Instruction
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Ponomarchuk, V. A.; Tolstykh, A. V. – Russian Education and Society, 1995
Reports on a study of Russian parental attitudes regarding appropriate age of initial school attendance and decisions regarding secondary education. Finds that 80% of parents of young children support kindergarten education. Includes 14 tables of data from the study. (CFR)
Descriptors: Access to Education, Attendance Patterns, Child Development, Cognitive Development